Support During Pregnancy and Postpartum When Mental Health Care Is Mediated by Technology
This event will feature Yesenia Navarro-Aguirre, PhD student, Biological Anthropology, as a guest speaker.
My research considers how support during pregnancy and postpartum is changing as mental health care increasingly takes digital, virtual, and indirect forms. This work builds off of long-standing biocultural work demonstrating human pregnancy and postpartum outcomes may have evolved to depend heavily on social support. My research expands on this by asking happens when care that has often been embedded in direct social relationships is increasingly mediated through apps, provider consultation systems, and virtual support spaces.
Using qualitative methods and data collected from existing studies of mothers in the U.S. and India, my dissertation research will examine how these newer forms of care are experienced, how they are made meaningful in everyday life, and what they may reveal about support, care, and vulnerability in contemporary perinatal contexts.
This opportunity is open to all eligible person…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 313. Accessibility Contact: anthinfo@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate/Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.