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Spotlighting Dr. Natalia Rodriguez: Pioneering Change at Health TechQuity Lab
Celebrating International Women’s Day, we spotlight Dr. Natalia Rodriguez, Director of the Health TechQuity Lab (HTQL), to explore her journey in the fields of biomedical engineering and public health. This interview highlights how Dr. Rodriguez’s passion for innovation and her dedication to improving community health drive the mission at HTQL. She discusses the lab’s commitment…
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Using Co-Design to Create Meaningful Technology
As the name suggests, co-design stands for collaborative design — a process that tends to be a longer-term and deeper form of collaboration with the people who will use, deliver, or engage with technology than other human-centered or participatory design methods. In our latest Human-Centered Design for Health Seminar Series, Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski, Assistant Professor…
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Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: A New Approach to Screening for Homeless Communities
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. People experiencing homelessness are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed with, or to die from, cervical cancer than those who are housed. This disparity is preventable. Cervical cancer is both preventable and treatable when caught early through screening. In our surveys and interviews with people experiencing…
Cervical Cancer, Community Health Workers, Community-based research, Health Disparities, Homelessness, Outreach & Engagement
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