This episode features Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer, a queer decolonial scholar from the Southern Cheyenne Nation and an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She discusses how social science methods can be reshaped to learn from communities and implement this knowledge into practice. Our conversation centers on how evidence mapping and practice-based evidence can address and challenge Western research structures. Dr. BlackDeer discusses these methods and her recent publication, "Evidence Mapping: Interventions for American Indian and Alaska Native Youth Mental Health." Her conclusions reveal that reconnecting Indigenous youth to their culture is a crucial and underutilized intervention to improve mental health.

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Dr. Willi Horner-Johnson takes a cross-disability approach to pregnancy and health in her work as Associate Professor at Oregon Health and Science University's School of Public Health, director of the Oregon Office on Disability in Health, and co-PI of the National Center for Disability and Pregnancy. Her work studies both pregnancy of people with disabilities and the birth of people with disabilities from preconception to post-partum health. She calls for a culture shift in reproductive care to respect people with disabilities, and for more accessible healthcare settings.

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Episode transcripts can be found at http://disabilityhealth.jhu.edu/included/

Other links:

"Perinatal Health Risks And Outcomes Among US Women With Self-Reported Disability, 2011–19," Health Affairs: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00497

"'It Would Have Been Nice to Have a Choice': Barriers to Contraceptive Decision-making among Women with Disabilities," Women's Health Issues: https://www.whijournal.com/article/S1049-3867(22)00001-9/fulltext

OHSU University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities - Reproductive Health Research: https://www.ohsu.edu/university-center-excellence-development-disability/reproductive-health-research

National Center for Disability and Pregnancy Research homepage: https://heller.brandeis.edu/disability-and-pregnancy/

Jared Smith, associate director of WebAIM, shares his expertise from over 20 years of working in web accessibility. In this episode, Smith highlights how online access means equity to information and ecommerce for all. He describes his team's systems to search websites for a wide variety of barriers, even with few federal guidelines in place. Tune in to hear how he views the future of technology, and how you can do your part to ensure an equitable online environment.

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Episode transcripts can be found at http://disabilityhealth.jhu.edu/included/

Learn more at: https://webaim.org/

Other links:

The WebAIM Million – 2022 Update: https://webaim.org/blog/webaim-million-2022/

COVID-19 Vaccine Website Accessibility Dashboard: https://disabilityhealth.jhu.edu/vaccinedashboard/webaccess/