Support During Pregnancy and Postpartum When Mental Health Care Is Mediated by Technology
Biocultural Anthropology Seminar Series
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.
Addressing Measurement Error Bias in Grouped Continuous Data for Causal Inferences | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Applied researchers often analyze ordered categories that discretize continuous quantities (income, time frequencies, biomarkers, exposures). Treating such indices as continuous or imputing bin midpoints are convenient but misleading strategies to estimate marginal effects in regression analyses. This paper characterizes a form of measurement error that arises in those strategies by design, from the sampling mechanism, which induces biased and inconsistent estimations that are model-dependent and a priori unpredictable. I provide a solution to this problem, a calibration method - regularized interval regression - that treats responses as intervals of a latent distribution, and predicts calibrated proxies robust to measurement error biases in downstream linear regressions. Monte Carlo evidence shows that, relative to midpoint imputation and “ordinal-as-continuous,” the calibrated proxy yields unbiased linear estimates, especially in the presence of right-censoring/top-coding. An example based on su…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSSS Seminar - Addressing Measurement Error Bias in Grouped Continuous Data for Causal Inferences
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Ramses Llobet, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UW, Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 - 12:30 pm
Abstract:
Applied researchers often analyze ordered categories that discretize continuous quantities (income, time frequencies, biomarkers, exposures). Treating such indices as continuous or imputing bin midpoints are convenient but misleading strategies to estimate marginal effects in regression analyses. This paper characterizes a form of measurement error that arises in those strategies by design, from the sampling mechanism, which induces biased and inconsistent estimations that are model-dependent and a priori unpredictable. I provide a solution to this problem, a calibration method - regularized interval regression - that treats responses as intervals of a latent distribution, and predicts calibrated proxies robust to measurement error biases in downstream linear regressions. Monte Carlo evidence shows that, relative to midpoint imputation and “ordinal-as-continuous,” the calibrated proxy yields unbiased…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486. Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: csss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Closing Reception 2026: Celebration of Trainees' Accomplishments
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Campus room: 320. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Ceremonies.
Friday, June 5, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. 2026 Department of Anthropology Graduation Celebration
The faculty and staff of UW Anthropology are pleased to invite you to our departmental graduation celebration! Please join us to celebrate our graduating students' successes and achievements.
For more information, please see our Graduation Celebration page. Please note that the Department of Anthropology's Graduation Celebration is not the same event as the University of Washington's Commencement. If you RSVP'd for the Commencement event, you still need to RSVP for Anthropology's Graduation Celebration.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 130. Accessibility Contact: anthinfo@uw.edu. Event Types: Ceremonies.
Sunday, June 14, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.