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Paige Nong is an assistant professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Nong completed her PhD in health services […]
In this field review, 2022 Just Tech Fellow Kim Gallon examines the rise of generative artificial intelligence in the healthcare space and how some researchers and machine learning advocates back its use to strengthen health datasets and make them more diverse. Gallon traces the history of health data inequality in the United States and explores the ethical and equity implications of using artificial health data in health research.
Todd Whitney is a journalist and technologist whose work uses environmental sensing and community-oriented data frameworks to open up climate justice discourses. By building hardware and designing data collection methods, […]
In October 2018, the Twitter hashtag #DoctorsAreDickheads began trending after YouTube blogger Stevie Boebi released a video discussing her years of experiencing medical gaslighting and dismissal, as well as her […]
Jeff Nagy is a historian of computing, AI, and disability. He holds a PhD in communication from Stanford University, where his dissertation, “Watching Feeling: Emotional Data from Cybernetics to Social […]
As part of our collaboration with the DISCO Network, Jeff Nagy examines the growing use of AI technology in psychiatry, focusing on the intersection of depression, disability, and digital media and how algorithms and machine learning impact our relationship with mental health.
David Adelman, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Digital Accessible Futures lab at the University of Michigan, through the DISCO Network, and is an affiliated faculty member in […]
As the Founder and Chief Good Troublemaker at Backbone Digital Leaders, Matthews has worked with history-making political candidates and organizations like Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight and Michelle Obama’s When We […]
Danielle Blunt is a sex worker, community organizer, public health researcher, and the cofounder of Hacking//Hustling, a collective of sex workers and accomplices working at the intersection of tech and […]
Mali Collins’ research areas include Black motherhood studies, Black archival studies, twentieth and twenty-first century literature and art, medical humanities, digital technology, and reproductive health and justice. She is a […]
The recent overturn of Roe v. Wade renewed attention toward reproductive violence, which disproportionately impacts Black reproductive life in the United States. Not unrelated, and nearly 20 years since the […]