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Bringing a Racial Equity Focus to Health Informatics: Panel Discussion

March 9, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff.

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 of the Bringing a Racial Equity Focus to Health Informatics event is a panel discussion. 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.

Registration required.

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. Register separately for the workshop.