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CHRS Speaker Series, 2023-24
Spring 2024 SeriesJanuary 24–April 17
Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Watkins G2 and on Zoom
Refreshments and networking from 3:30-4:00.
To join on Zoom, please register.
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- January 24, The Toll of Exclusion on Immigrants’ Healthacross the Life Course: Research Advances and Future Directions
Molly Dondero, PhD, MA (American University) - January 31, Health Disparities at the Border
Ernesto Casteñada, PhD (American University) - February 7, Seeds of Unity: Examining the Link Between Joint Land Titles and Women's Status and Well-Being in Western Uganda
Michelle Poulin, PhD (University of California, Berkeley) - February 14, User-centered Design in Combination Interventions to Prevent Perpetration of Violence and HIV among Adolescents
Caroline Kuo, DPhil, MPhil (American University) - February 21, Conceptualizing and Operationalizing 'Multi-Partner Fertility' in a Longitudinal Study of Marriage, Kinship Support and Child Health in Low-Income Nairobi
Kirsten Stoebenau, PhD, & Sangeetha Madhavan, PhD
(University of Maryland, College Park) - February 28, The Reproduction of Inequality
Katherine Mason, PhD, MA (Wheaton College) - March 6, Title to Be Determined
Sara Kaplan, PhD (American University) - March 20, Intimate Partner Homicide against Older Women: Variations across Age and Relationship Status
Lynn Addington, PhD, JD, MA (American University) - March 27, Mass Incarceration, Affordable Housing, and Health Inequities
Kim Blakenship, PhD, MA (American University) - April 3, Investigating DC's climate stories: Identifying Gaps and New Directions in Local Media Depictions of Climate Change
Rosalind Donald, PhD, MA (American University) - April 10, The Wages of English: Barriers to Cross-Racial Community Mobilization in Non-Profit Organizations
Sarah Iverson, PhD, MPhil, MA (American University) - April 17, Refusing Logics of Exclusion, Constructing a Landscape of Care: HPV, Anal Warts, and Queer Recognition in Kenya
Matt Thomman, PhD, MS (University of Maryland, College Park)
Past Events
Fall 2023 Speakers
- Sanyu A. Mojola, Race, Health, and Inequality: The Roots of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Washington, DC
- Tracy Weitz, Why Do They Look So Hard? Physician Self-enforcement of “Heartbeat” Abortion Bans
- Alison H. Norris, Perspectives from a Midwestern Researcher
- Jonathan G. Tubman, Exploring Multivariate Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Sexual and Gender Minority Emerging Adults
- Rita Jalali, Global Health Priorities and the Neglect of Menstrual Health and Hygiene: The Role of Issue Attributes
- Robin Lumsdaine, An Analysis of Policymakers’ Communications regarding COVID
- Kelly Cleland, Emergency Contraception in the Post-Dobbs Era: Urgency, Barriers, and Opportunities to Expand Access