Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Intersectionality in digital health disparities research
| Dates: | 8 May 2024 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | The Christabel Pankhurst Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, General public |
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Our next seminar in digital health inequities seminar series is on 8th of May, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/91295080563). Laiba Husain from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences will talk about “Desperately Seeking Intersectionality in Digital Health Disparities Research”.
Laiba Husain is a third-year DPhil student at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences whose work focuses on the shift to video consultations and its implications on digital health disparities. Her study is funded by THIS Institute and investigates how video consultations shape the experience of digital healthcare for disadvantaged patients in the UK. After graduating with a Bachelors in Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience from the University of Michigan (USA), Laiba came to the UK as a Fulbright Scholar where she completed a Master’s in Public Health at the University of Birmingham. Her wider interests include interdisciplinary and participatory approaches to research, social & health inequalities, and empowerment of marginalised communities. She is the first author on the 2022 review on intersectionality in digital health disparity research.
In her presentation, Laiba will talk about how digital health solutions often fail to acknowledge how digital health disparities emerge and play out both within and across categories of disadvantages; how theories of multiple disadvantage in digital health research and innovation provide a helpful lens to think about this; and how developing personas to reflect the lived experiences and challenges disadvantaged groups face when navigating digital healthcare services may help capture intersecting dimensions of disadvantage and address digital disparities in these groups.
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