FOSTERING A GLOBAL RESEARCH-PRACTICE COLLECTIVE ON RESPONSIBLE AI AND HEALTH EQUITY

Call for Participation

Join us in fostering a global, interdisciplinary community dedicated to health equity. This hybrid workshop will bring together diverse perspectives to bridge the gap between research and practice, ensuring that technological innovation translates into on-the-ground impact in a careful and caring manner. 

We welcome researchers and practitioners of all backgrounds, experience levels, and project stages. We are seeking broad representation across geography & culture, professional roles, and health issues. Register to participate in shaping the future of how we might responsibly integrate AI in health.

agenda (Tentative)

• Welcome and introduction

• Icebreaker and networking

• Organizers introduce themes

• Break

• Researcher/practitioner panel

• Roundtable discussion (round 1)

• Lunch break

• Roundtable discussion (round 2)

• Individual reflection

• Break

• Closing discussion and next steps

PANELISTS

TBD

ORGANIZERS

Amy Chen, PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Aman Khullar, PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Sampson Adotey, PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town & Associate Director of Communications at the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS)

Harini Anand, Software Developer in IBM's Data & AI Division, & Undergraduate Researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Shirin Amouei, PhD candidate at the University of Washington

Dr. Pooja Chitre, Postdoctoral Scholar at Arizona State University

Taru Jain, Design Researcher at CommonsTech Foundation for Participatory Technologies, India

Dr. Tamara Lambert, Independent Researcher

Siddharth Nair, PhD candidate at Umeå University

Dr. Raunaq Pradhan, Product Manager at AI and Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK), IISc Bangalore

Dr. Rishikesh Balvalli, Ophthalmic Pathologist with Sankara Eye Foundation

Dr. Karthik S. Bhat, Assistant Professor of Information Science at Drexel University

Dr. Ravi Karkar, Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr. Firaz Peer, Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky's School of Information Science

Dr. Melissa Densmore, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town, & Lead, HCI Lab, and the Hasso Plattner Institute Digital Health Partnership

Dr. Azra Ismail, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Global Health, Emory University

Dr. Naveena Karusala, Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Neha Kumar, Associate Professor at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Anupriya Tuli, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Interaction Design team at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Dr. Kai Wang, Assistant Professor at the School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology