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Bringing a Racial Equity Focus to Health Informatics: Panel Discussion
March 9, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
The Carolina Health Informatics Program along with the Health Sciences Library invites you to participate in a two-part event intended to help health informatics students and researchers at UNC incorporate a racial equity focus into their work.
Part 1: Bringing a Racial Equity Focus to Health Informatics Panel - March 9, 2021 at 3PM EST.
Panelists are researchers from UNC and industry working in a variety of health informatics and/or health equity topic areas, all of whom have combined both health informatics and racial equity topics, methods, and/or tools into their research. The moderated panel discussion will last 50 minutes, followed by audience Q&A.
Panelists:
- Dr. Amelia Gibson, Associate Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
- Dr. Samuel Cykert, Professor, UNC School of Medicine and Director, UNC Program for Health and Clinical Informatics
- Dr. Emily Kontos, Managing Editor, DynaMed
- Moderator: Stacy Torian, Health Sciences Librarian
The second part of the event, held two weeks later (March 23), will be a workshop where health informatics researchers can ideate and plan for ways to incorporate a racial equity focus into their research programs. You can register separately for the workshop here.
Register in advance for the panel discussion here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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