Beza Merid, Ph.D.

Regulating Innovative Digital Health Technologies

This project explores the digital health regulatory landscape. Undergraduate students hired to work on this project will have the opportunity to research the relationship between biomedical innovation and policymaking, and, in particular, the importance using health technology policy to incentivize the adoption of equity considerations.

Anti-Racist Digital Health Futures

This project explores how structural racism operates as a barrier to the adoption of innovative digital health technologies and, in response, imagines what explicitly anti-racist digital health futures should look like. Undergraduate students interested in joining the Lab are hired to work within this project area, and will have the opportunity to present their findings as part of the SFIS Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Poster Symposium.

Digital Health and the Abolitionist Consciousness

This project explores how the carceral imaginary is imbued within the design of innovative digital health technologies, and it considers how an abolitionist praxis can generate new solidarities and ways of being in order to create more just digital health ecosystems. Doctoral students interested in joining the Lab have the opportunity to work within this project area, and to participate in the Lab’s monthly Digital Health Equity Journal Club meetings.