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  • Positionality Statement for a Scholar and Artist at the Intersection of Population Health and Critical Disability Studies

    This is a positionality statement to accompany my scholarship as Dielle Lundberg and my multi-media art as Lyra McMahon. Read more.

    August 23, 2026

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    12–18 minutes

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  • Scandinavian, Irish, and Minnesotan: A Critical Autoethnography of Family History, Whiteness, and Settler Colonialism

    This working paper presents an autoethnography of my predominantly Scandinavian and Irish ancestors, their history as white settlers on lands dispossessed from the Dakota people in what is now Minnesota, and their assimilation into whiteness. It also introduces the Lundberg-McMahon Redistribution Initiative as one concrete action that attempts to repair some of this settler history. Read more.

    August 23, 2026

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    26–39 minutes

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  • A Methodological Critique of the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY): Robust Science or a Symptom of Structural Ableism in Public Health?

    This research brief presents a methodological critique of the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), questioning the robustness of this metric and whether it functions to uphold structural ableism in public health and healthcare. It also offers recommendations for reform and future directions for research. Read more.

    July 31, 2025

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    19–29 minutes

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Ableism & Healthcare Now is an independent platform that writer and data analyst Dielle Lundberg created to share research and other scholarly work about how structural ableism shapes healthcare and public health. Dielle publishes a few research briefs each year on this platform. This project seeks to push back on the large amount of health research that upholds ableism within healthcare and public health. Beyond that, the project seeks to shift the values and priorities of policymakers toward health policies that center the perspectives and needs of disabled people. Read more.


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