My name is Dielle Lundberg (DL), and I use she/her or ze/hir pronouns. I am a public health data analyst and storyteller who is based in Seattle, Washington.
I received a master’s in public health (MPH) from Boston University School of Public Health in 2019. I also completed a year and a half of the Health Services PhD program at the University of Washington School of Public Health, where I received advanced doctoral-level training in health services research methods, epidemiology, and quantitative data analysis. In the course of my training there, I discovered that my passion lies primarily in data analysis and storytelling rather than in designing and leading academic studies.
I have seven years of experience collaborating on research teams studying: structural ableism, excess mortality, reporting of COVID-19 deaths, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, sexual and gender minority health, novel tobacco and nicotine products, chronic noncommunicable disease, racial inequities, rural health, and post-consumer textile waste.
My past collaborations have included peer-reviewed publications, commentaries and opinion pieces, investigative journalism collaborations, and data-driven art advocacy projects.
Here are some selected examples of my prior work and collaborations.
Alongside my current work, I publish a learning resource on Substack called Ableism & Healthcare Now exploring how structural ableism shapes healthcare and public health. I also work creatively as a novelist and multi-media artist under the name Larty McMahon.
Positionality Statement
I am a white, queer, transfeminine person who is disabled, mad, and neurodivergent.
I currently live in Seattle, Washington on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples past and present including all tribes and bands within the Duwamish, Puyallup, Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations. I was born and grew up in Minnesota (on the unceded lands of the Wahpekute band of the Dakota people). I also spent formative periods of my life living in Massachusetts (on the unceded lands of the Wampanoag and Massachusetts People), Arizona (on the unceded lands of the Tohono O’odham and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe), and Greater Accra, Ghana (on lands inhabited by the Ga people, Akan people, and several other ethnic groups).
At this time, I understand my ancestry as consisting mostly of Scandinavian people (present day Norway, Sweden, and Denmark) and Irish Catholic people who settled in Minnesota and other locations in the Midwest in the late 1800s through early 1900s.