Chhaglani, Liu Selected for Spring 2024 Health Tech for the People Graduate Student Fellows
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Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences doctoral students Bhawana Chhaglani and Xiao Liu are among six students selected university-wide to the Spring 2024 cohort of Health Tech for the People Graduate Student Fellows.
Health Tech for the People (HT4P), funded by IALS/CPHM, is a new thrust focusing on the ethics of technology and accountable, human-centered design, evaluation and translation of health monitoring technologies for the public interest. This research focus incubates interdisciplinary and community-led teams and technologies in the domains of aging care and reproductive health.
The purpose of the HT4P graduate fellowship is to encourage graduate students to integrate considerations of ethics of technology and accountable, human-centered design, evaluation and translation of health monitoring technologies for the public interest into their program of research with mentorship support and community. Each fellow will receive up to $1500, with a minimum award of $1000.
HT4P draws on expertise and existing collaborations across and beyond IALS/CPHM, including partnerships with the Public Interest Technology initiative, the Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, the Center for Community Health Equity Research, the Massachusetts AI & Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease and the Computational Social Science Institute. The thrust serves as a resource and consultation space for all of IALS and CPHM, offering interdisciplinary and community-directed expertise for IALS researchers and innovators on human-centered design and the ethics of tech and engagement with community partners/co-creators.
This story was originally published by the UMass Amherst Institute for Applied Life Sciences.