All the events here are relevant to people working in dementia research. If you would like to add your own you can submit an event
- This event has passed.
Digital Health Inequalities
March 13 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Join us for an exciting hybrid seminar with a networking and lunch opportunity with colleagues from the University of Melbourne.
When: Wednesday, 13 March,12:00-14:00 (Hybrid)
Where: Christabel Pankhurst Building, Dover Street, Manchester, M13 9PS
Or ONLINE
The University of Manchester’s Christabel Pankhurst Institute, supported by ARC-GM, and the International Centre for Translational Digital Health (ICTDH), a joint collaboration between the University of Toronto, the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne, are hosting an exciting seminar from the programme of work around digital health inequities.
As part of this, we are hosting a seminar series about the topic with speakers from different disciplines who have done exemplary research on understanding, identifying or addressing digital health inequities.
Agenda
12:00-13:00 Networking and lunch opportunity (in-person only)
13:00-14:00 Dr Mahima Kalla from the University of Melbourne will talk about “Drawing from sociological and other disciplinary literature for digital health equity translational pedagogy” (hybrid)
About the speaker
Dr Mahima Kalla is a Research Fellow within the University of Melbourne’s Digital Health Validitron. She is an inter-disciplinary professional with a background in engineering and management consulting. As a digital health researcher, she focuses on the translation of patients’, carers’ and professionals’ lived experience and tacit knowledge into the co-design, development, and implementation of digital health solutions. She has a particular interest in digital health equity, and social / digital determinants of health. With a background in management consulting, she is also passionate about facilitating successful industry-academia-community partnerships to drive evidence-based, translation-ready digital health solutions. Dr Kalla is an emerging national expert in qualitative research methodologies, including both traditional and non-traditional paradigms.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmahimakalla/
X: https://twitter.com/DrMahimaKalla
About the talk
While digital health technologies show promise for improving the quality and safety of patient care, population health outcomes, and general consumer experience, inadequate consideration of equity and accessibility issues have the potential to exacerbate extant health disparities. Poorly designed and/or implemented DHTs can worsen health outcomes of socially marginalised or disadvantaged populations. The Centre for Digital Transformation of Health (CDTH, University of Melbourne) has created a digital health equity workshop series to enable multi-disciplinary professionals (e.g. clinicians, researchers, technology developers, students etc.) develop more equitable digital health solutions. This workshop comprises a series of curated activities which draw inter-disciplinary theory-driven and applied knowledge from domains such as health sociology and design among others. In this presentation, Dr Mahima Kalla will share how CDTH incorporates multi-disciplinary knowledge to deliver translational pedagogy for digital health equity to professionals across Australia, and now internationally.
If you have any questions, please contact us at digital-inequities@manchester.ac.uk
