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SUMMARY:Health Disparities Research Working Group | May 21\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Health Disparities Research Working Group is pleased to welcome Mai See Thao\, PhD on Thursday\, May 21!\n \n\nHmong\, Type 2 Diabetes\, and Social Determinants of Health\nAbout the Talk: Hmong in Wisconsin have an alarming prevalence of diabetes compared to non-Hispanic whites. Research examining type 2 diabetes within the Hmong community has primarily focused on Hmong cultural perceptions\, knowledge\, and traditional practices of treating the disease. This study’s mixed-methods design of surveys\, focus groups\, and key informant interviews found that the social determinants of health deeply impact Hmong people’s ability to manage type 2 diabetes. These determinants include poverty\, types of employment\, health care culture and racism\, social isolation\, and gender. \n\n\nDr. Mai See Thao is a medical anthropologist whose research interests are the refugee body\, science\, medicine\, and empire. She is currently writing her book\, tentatively titled The Chronic Refugee: Hmong American Afterlives in Empire\, which examines older adult Hmong Americans’ post-refugee experiences with chronic type 2 diabetes and how it illuminates the structural vulnerabilities that refugees continue to face as they age in their place of home/resettlement. This book’s intervention is in the afterlives of imperialism\, its materialization as health disparities in the refugee body\, and the refugee’s critique of life after empire. \nThese kinds of inquiries have led Dr. Thao to think about the interconnections of violence and care\, aging for refugees\, and the intervention of public humanities. She is also a community-based participatory researcher (CBPR) who teaches social science theory to community members and has led CBPR projects on the social determinants of health for type 2 diabetes and a traveling exhibit on Hmong historical trauma and healing in Wisconsin. \nBefore beginning her Assistant Professor position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, she was the inaugural Director of Hmong Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and launched the university’s very first Hmong Studies Program. \n\n\nIn person attendance strongly encouraged. \nUnable to join in person? \nJoin via Zoom \n  \n\n\n\n \n  \n  \n  \nWhat is the HDRWG? \n\nPresenters will share their work\, wherever they are in the research process—from developing initial research ideas to final research products—and get valuable feedback from the working group.\n\nWhat do presenting researchers get out if it?\nThe diversity of perspectives within the working group will help presenters strengthen their ongoing research. Also\, communicating your own research to others is really challenging! As a presenter\, this meeting is a great venue to practice presenting your research in a supportive environment.\n\nWhat does an attendee get out of it?\nAttendees get a great chance to stay up to date on the latest health disparities research developments on campus. It’s also a great chance to get more involved\, foster connections with colleagues\, explore different research topics that you may be interested in\, and better understand how all of our efforts at fit together to address health disparities.\n\n\nWe think these meetings have something to offer to everyone\, regardless of your research experience!
URL:https://chdr.wisc.edu/event/hdr-working-group-may-21-2026/
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