From Frameworks to Implementation Advancing Digital Health Equity Across the Technology Lifecyle

Presentation Type: Panel
Presentation Time: 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Primary Track: Data Science/Artificial Intelligence


Digital health innovations are transforming care delivery, yet mounting evidence shows they can deepen existing health disparities when equity is not embedded across the technology lifecycle. This panel convenes four experts to examine digital health equity (DHE) through complementary lenses. Katherine Kim introduces industry-facing DHE frameworks that ground the conversation. Purity Mugambi examines how data science methodologies can be leveraged to identify, measure, and reduce health inequities. Sristi Sharma explores how digital tools affect care delivery and patient outcomes in operational settings. Samantha Stonbraker traces DHE considerations across the development-to-evaluation lifecycle within a research context. Together, the panelists present a cohesive argument: equity must be a design requirement, not a retrospective patch. Attendees will leave with cross-cutting strategies for building, deploying, and evaluating digital health technologies that narrow rather than widen disparities.

Moderator:
Kelly Resco-Summers, DNP, MS, MAdm, BSN, RN
University of Alabama, Birmingham

Speaker(s):
Katherine Kim, PhD, MPH, MBA, FAMIA
University of California Davis

Purity Mugambi, BS, MS
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sristi Sharma, M.D., M.P.H.
UCSF

Samantha Stonbraker, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, FAMIA
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Author(s):
Kelly Resco-Summers, DNP, MS, MAdm, BSN, RN - University of Alabama, Birmingham; Samantha Stonbraker, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, FAMIA - University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Katherine Kim, PhD, MPH, MBA, FAMIA - University of California Davis; Sristi Sharma, M.D., M.P.H. - UCSF; Purity Mugambi, BS, MS - University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Yun Jiang, PhD, MS, RN, FAMIA - University of Michigan;

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