Health TechQuity Journal Club

Goal: Build a community of scholarly practice and research productivity focused on leveraging emerging technologies to achieve health equity.

Aims:

  1. Familiarize SJSU scholars with critical concepts and issues at the intersection of health equity and technological development.
  2. Facilitate opportunities for scholars across disciplines to convene.
  3. Enable ideation of possible research projects and transdisciplinary collaboration.
Calendar of Articles and Registrations
Date & Registration Link Facilitator

September 13

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #1

Kadija Ferryman, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist with the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University who studies the social, cultural, and ethical implications of health information technologies.

 

Target Article:
Considering Biased Data as Informative Artifacts in AI-Assisted Health Care

October 11

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #2

Rashaud Senior, M.D., MMCi is a Family Medicine physician with Avance Care in Research Triangle Park, NC, and Clinical Informatics Fellow with Duke University's Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.

 

Target Article:

Mitigating Racial and Ethnic Bias and Advancing Health Equity in Clinical Algorithms: A Scoping Review

November 1

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #3

Charles Senteio, Ph.D., is an associate professor of library and information sciences at Rutgers University. Originally trained in social work, Dr. Senteio's research on how healthcare practitioners and patients can better use information to improve chronic disease outcomes for at-risk patients - while reducing cost of care - through financially sustainable care delivery models.

 

Target Article:

Write It Like You See It: Detectable Differences in Clinical Notes by Race Lead to Differential Model Recommendations

January 17

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #4

Irene Dankwa-Mullan, M.D., MPH, is the Deputy Chief Health Officer for IBM Watson Health and the lead scientific officer for Data and Evidence. Before Watson Health, she served as Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Scientific Programs at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.

 

Target Article:

Applications of Big Data Science and Analytic Techniques for Health Disparities Research