Juan Gudino, MPH
Graduate Research Assistant

Juan Gudino is a second-year PhD student in Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health. He received his MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Iowa in 2020, where he began storytelling focused on the public health implications of immigration enforcement in the Midwest and connections between 20th century eugenic sterilization practices and Nativist misconceptions in biological determinism. From 2020-2021, he was a National Human Research Institute trainee with the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab at the University of Michigan. His research interests explore the health implications of systems of control, surveillance, and arrest in the United States and community-guided research in efforts of healing and transformation of the carceral state.