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

call for participation

We invite you to participate in our upcoming hybrid workshop at the ACM Interactive Health Conference, designed for researchers and practitioners at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and health. This workshop seeks to foster a global interdisciplinary community with a strong commitment to health equity and bring together diverse perspectives on this topic from the Interactive Health community and beyond. Through collaborative discussions and an expert panel, we will explore themes including: navigating interdisciplinary collaboration; agency of researchers, practitioners, health workers, and community members in AI design, development, and deployment; and how to responsibly integrate AI into health practices or critically challenge its role.

We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners of all backgrounds, levels of experience, and stages of project work; we seek diverse participation across geographic and cultural contexts and the health issues addressed. We will provide a link to a web form for registration to gather early interest and participant perspectives to further inform our workshop themes, but we also welcome walk-in participation, whether attending in person or virtually. Prospective participants will be asked to share details about their background and experience; describe their interest and goals in attending the workshop; offer an insight or recommendation regarding equitable AI and health work; and pose an open question, challenge, or tension they are facing and would like to discuss. We will gather participants' reflections prior to and during the workshop to collectively produce a publicly shared workshop report.

agenda (Tentative)

• Welcome and introduction 

• Icebreaker and networking 

• Organizers present synthesized themes 

• Break 

• Researcher/practitioner panel 

• Roundtable discussions 

• Lunch break 

• Individual reflection 

• Break 

• Closing discussion and next steps 

PANELISTS

TBD

ORGANIZERS

1. Amy Chen, PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology

2. Aman Khullar, PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology 

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

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

5. Shirin Amouei, PhD candidate at the University of Washington

6. Dr. Pooja Chitre, Postdoctoral Scholar at Arizona State University

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

8. Dr. Tamara Lambert, AAAS Science and Technology Congressional Fellow

9. Siddharth Nair, PhD candidate at Umeå University

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

11. Rishikesh Balvalli, Ophthalmic Pathologist with Sankara Eye Foundation

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

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

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

15. 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

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

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

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

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

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