Researchers and authors Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan take audiences through their journey with Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power and Assault on Campus, which draws primarily on the ethnographic component of the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT), the groundbreaking mixed-methods research project on sexual assault among Columbia and Barnard undergraduates. Sexual Citizens advances a new conceptual language for thinking about the social production of campus sexual assault: sexual projects, sexual geographies, and sexual citizenship.
Kidney stones are a painful condition and increasing fluid intake is a key to preventing recurrence. Yet many patients struggle to drink enough fluids to meet prevention guidelines. This talk will present emerging work from an interdisciplinary collaboration between behavioral scientists, urologists, and computer scientists to develop sipIT, a connected digital intervention for promoting fluid intake among patients with kidney stones.
The prevalence of many behavioral health and related problems have increased over the last decade, even in the face of a growing knowledge and evidence base. Many different programs, policies, and practices have been shown to prevent such problems, but very few have been implemented at the scale needed to impact population health. This talk will present results from three studies that illustrate how approaches and frameworks from dissemination and implementation science can advance our understanding of evidence-based prevention program scale-up.
This talk will describe a series of studies with adolescent samples to understand how mindfulness develops and various practices for cultivating it intentionally. The first study examines naturalistic development of one facet of mindfulness—nonreactivity to inner experiences—during the transition from middle school to high school and its associations with perceived stress and emotional well-being. The second study tests the short-term effect of a week long, intensive mindfulness retreat on various indices of social-emotional and cognitive functioning.
Food, water and energy security remains a pressing challenge for Africa.The Nexus is a framework for integrative modelling of tradeoffs with the objective of advancing synergies in decision making of water-energy-food interactions, which may then have implications other factors such as health and poverty reduction.