When: Friday, Jan 10, 2025 (12:30-1:30PM)

Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)

1-on-1 meetings: 223 Raitt Hall (sign up here)

We are looking forward to hosting CSDE Affiliate Hilary Schwandt from the Western Washington University on Friday, Jan. 10 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. In addition, there are opportunities to meet 1-1 with Dr. Schwandt throughout the day. Sign up here!

This talk is based on findings from six years of research, funded by two NSF REUs, on the family planning program in Rwanda with undergraduates from the USA and Rwanda. This presentation will focus especially on the findings and lessons learned each year – and how those informed each subsequent summer of data collection.

Hilary Schwandt is a Professor at Fairhaven College at Western Washington University. Hilary earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research primarily focuses on reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa – particularly in the area of family planning. Most recently, with her colleague in Sociology, she was awarded two consecutive grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research on Rwanda’s family planning program. At Fairhaven, Hilary teaches classes in the areas of sexual health, pregnancy and childbirth, nutrition, and population health. In her free time, Hilary enjoys spending time outdoors with her 4 daughters and 3 dogs.

Geographic mobility has been associated with poorer outcomes across the HIV care cascade. On January 23rd, join CSDE Affiliate Khai Tram (UW Medical Center) for a presentation sponsored by the UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) that aims to put this issue into context. The presentation is focused on a study conducted in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa which investigates daily mobility of a cohort of young adults at high risk of HIV over a 6-month period. This presentation, entitled “Mobility data for population health: Smartphone GPS traces to measure human mobility in a high HIV prevalence area in rural South Africa” will show how understanding dynamic patterns of movement can help inform location-intelligent mHealth interventions for HIV prevention. Register for this webinar here.