CCCCatalyzing the computing research community and enabling the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research.
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
  • Rss
  • About
    • About CCC
    • Council Members
    • Council Meetings
    • CCC Council Nominations
    • Governing Documents
    • FAQ
    • Contact
  • Visioning
    • Visioning Activities
      • 2022
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012
      • 2011 and Prior Years
    • Workshop Reports
    • RFP – Creating Visions for Computing Research
    • Blue Sky
    • CS for Social Good White Paper Competition
    • Robotics Roadmap
  • Leadership Development
    • Call for Council Nominations
    • Leadership in Science Policy Institute
    • Big Data Regional Hubs
    • Postdoc Best Practices
      • Postdoc Best Practice Final Reports
      • Postdoc Best Practice Resources
    • CIFellows
      • CIFellows 2021
      • CIFellows 2020
      • CIFellows 2020: For the Record
      • CI Fellows 2014 Workshop
      • 2011 Class
      • 2010 Class
      • 2009 Class
      • Assessment
      • Diversity
      • Success Stories
  • Task Forces
    • Computing Challenges to Humanity: Climate
    • Research Ecosystem Working Group
    • NextGen AI
    • Unique Ways to Compute
    • Socio Technical Resilience
    • Computational Challenges in Healthcare
    • Past Task Forces
      • AI Working Group
      • Weird Ways to Compute
      • Security, Integrity, and Trust
      • Future of Life in a Hybrid World
      • Computing Challenges to Humanity
  • Resources
    • CCC Call for Content
    • Workshop Reports
    • CCC-Led White Papers
    • Presentations
    • CCC Responds to the Community
    • Recent CCC Activities
    • Ongoing CCC Activities
    • CIFellows Spotlight
    • Great Innovative Ideas
    • Event Videos
    • Catalyzing Computing Podcast
    • Computing Research in Action
    • Computing Research Highlights
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Special Events
    • Past Events
    • CCC at AAAS
      • CCC at AAAS 2023
      • CCC at AAAS 2022
      • CCC at AAAS 2020
      • CCC at AAAS 2019
      • CCC at AAAS 2018
      • CCC at AAAS 2017
      • CCC at AAAS 2016
      • CCC at AAAS 2013
  • CCC by CS Area
    • AI /ML / Robotics
    • Architecture / Systems / Networking
    • Databases / Informatics / Data Science / HPC
    • Human-Computer Interaction / Graphics / Visualization
    • IoT / Ubiquitous
    • Programming Languages / Compilers / Software Engineering
    • Security / Privacy / Fairness
    • Theory / Algorithms
    • Miscellaneous
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Menu

Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction: A Research Agenda


   Workshop Report   

April 9-10, 2018

New Orleans Riverside Hilton
Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA, United States



Event Contact

Ann Drobnis
adrobnis@cra.org
2022662936


Event Type

2018 Events, 2018 Visioning Activities


Event Category

CCC

Overview

The burden of negative health outcomes is, unfortunately, differential in the United States (US) and other countries, a phenomenon known as health disparities. Health disparities are differences the incidence and prevalence of disease, as well as disease-related morbidity, mortality and survival rates in one group when compared to the general population. Health disparities may emerge on the basis of socially stratifying factors such as socioeconomic status, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, and place of residence. Critically, although there have been significant, coordinated governmental investments of resources to eliminate health disparities over the past 25 years in the US and elsewhere, there remain substantial and troubling inequities.

Sociotechnical interventions hold promise for reducing disparities and improving the health of marginalized populations – but this potential is yet to be fully realized. At the same time, researchers must take care when developing any sociotechnical intervention in the health domain, since such interventions can generate unintended consequences that exacerbate disparities, as research concerning patient portal implementation shows.

In this cross-disciplinary workshop, we will bring together leading researchers in computing, health informatics, and behavioral medicine to develop an integrative research agenda regarding sociotechnical interventions to reduce health disparities and improve the health of socio-economically disadvantaged populations. As part of these discussions, approaches for guarding against unintended consequences of general interventions will also be explored. To do so, this workshop will focus on integrating insights and findings from each of these fields, identifying gaps in understanding between fields, and surfacing opportunities for future interdisciplinary research to address relevant challenges.

The workshop will be held before the Society for Behavioral Medicine’s 39th Annual Meeting on Monday, April 9 and Tuesday, April 10, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Participants will be drawn from academia, industry, and government. During the 1.5 day workshop, participants will consider how social science and technology can combine to create inclusive sociotechnical systems that can benefit everyone, including those groups that experience health disparities. General themes and questions for the workshop include:  

Theory to Design and Implementation: Sociotechnical interventions that reduce health disparities require interdisciplinary knowledge because health disparities are rooted in social, behavioral, economic and healthcare-based factors. This workshop will strengthen collaborative research by exploring, “How do researchers appropriately identify and map theory to design, implementation, and evaluation?”

Sociotechnical System Blackboxes: As research in interactive systems in healthcare has matured, computing and health informatics researchers have increasingly drawn upon social and behavioral science theories [2] to design, develop, and analyze sociotechnical systems. We ask: “How researchers can understand when sociotechnical systems elicit positive, negative or neutral health outcomes for disparity populations, can we identify why? How do we identify the individual or combined impacts of theory and design?”

Sociotechnical Systems to Inform Theory: Behavioral medicine researchers have traditionally developed health behavior theories and models through participant self-report or by utilizing commodity systems to evaluate the theory at scale. Thus, this workshop provides mutually beneficial opportunities for researchers to discuss the design of personalized, contextual sociotechnical systems that can triangulate and verify data that informs models. In this line of thought, we examine, “How do the data that sociotechnical systems collect impact theory? How do we negotiate the dosing of sociotechnical systems from what is clinically needed to what people are willing to use? “

Multidimensional Evaluation to Reduce Health Disparities at the Population Level: Sociotechnical interventions hold promise for reducing disparities and improving the health of marginalized populations, however interventions can generate unintended consequences that exacerbate disparities. To prevent this, we will consider optimal methods for engaging health disparity populations at all stages of intervention design, implementation, and evaluation. We will also consider safeguards at each level and checking mechanisms as the intervention is deployed at scale.  

The four themes provide ample space for cross-cutting challenges to emerge in human computer interaction, complex systems, security, privacy, smart cities, and sustainability.

All participants are asked to create a one page document that addresses:

  • A promising sociotechnical intervention they deployed;
  • The audience and context in which the intervention was deployed;
  • How health disparities were considered and addressed (or why they were not addressed);
  • Based on the intervention deployment and outcomes, open research challenges.
Agenda

April 9, 2018 (Monday)

04:00 PM Welcome and Evening Charge | Salon 9
04:30 PM Sociotechnical Theory in Health Disparity Contexts | Salon 9

Questions:

  • “How do researchers appropriately identify and map theory to design, implementation, and evaluation, specifically in a health disparity context?”
  • “How do the data that sociotechnical systems collect impact theory to help address health disparities? How do we negotiate the dosing of sociotechnical systems from what is clinically needed to what health disparity populations are willing to use?“

Moderator: Heather Cole-Lewis, Ph.D., Director of Behavior Science, Johnson and Johnson Health and Wellness Solutions, Inc.

Panel:

  • Computing: Lena Mamykina, Ph.D.,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
  • Health Informatics: Madhu Reddy, Ph.D., FACMI, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
  • Behavioral medicine: Jasmin Tiro, Ph.D., Medical Center, University of Texas Southwestern
  • Health Disparity researchers: Robert Newton, Ph.D., Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University
04:40 PM Two 15 Minute Rotations | Salon 9
05:20 PM Break
05:40 PM Sociotechnical Blackboxes and Multidimensional Evaluation to Reduce Health Disparities | Salon 9

Questions:

  • “How researchers can understand when sociotechnical systems elicit positive, negative or neutral health outcomes for disparity populations, can we identify why? How do we identify the individual or combined impacts of theory and design?”
  • How can researchers understand, or guard against, unintended consequences such as intervention-generated inequalities?

Moderator: Tiffany Veinot, Ph.D., School of Information, University of Michigan

Panelists

  • Computing: Tammy Toscos, Ph.D., Informatics Research Scientist, Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation
  • Health Informatics: Robert Lucero, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, College of Nursing, University of Florida
  • Behavioral medicine: Kathy Kim, Ph.D., MPH, MBA,  Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California Davis
  • Health Disparity researchers: Jamilia Sly, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
05:50 PM Two 15 Minute Rotations | Salon 9
06:20 PM Wrap-Up | Salon 9
07:00 PM Dinner | August Restaurant

April 10, 2018 (Tuesday)

08:00 AM Breakfast | Salon 13-16
09:00 AM Introduction and 1-minute Lightning Intro Talks | Salon 9
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM Morning Charge | Salon 9
11:00 AM Breakout Groups | Salons 7, 9, 10 and 12
12:00 PM Report Back and Discuss | Salon 9
01:00 PM Lunch | Salon 13-16
02:00 PM Afternoon Charge: Deeper exploration of problems areas in need of further research | Salon 9
02:15 PM Select problems for deeper exploration with Post-It Voting | Salon 9
02:30 PM Create a presentation that answers the following questions: | Salons 7, 9, 10 and 12
  • Description of the problem
  • Description of the significance of the problem
  • How would we know if we were making progress on this problem? What would success look like?
  • What are the critical barriers that stand in the way of this success?
  • Who needs to be involved in solving the problem? (e.g., disciplines, areas of expertise, funders, communities, nonprofit organizations, industry, patients)
    • How will they work together in a feasible and sustainable manner (e.g., benefits, needs)?
  • How can research contribute to solving this problem and achieving success?
  • What research questions needs to be asked?
  • What research methodologies and/or novel techniques are most important in addressing these questions?
03:30 PM Break
03:45 PM Presentations | Salon 9
04:30 PM Documenting Process | Salon 9
05:15 PM Next Steps | Salon 9
05:30 PM Conclude Workshop
07:00 PM Networking Dinner | Brennan's Restaurant
Organizers
Tiffany Veinot, University of Michigan (Co-Chair)
Katie Siek, Indiana University (Co-Chair)
Heather Cole-Lewis, Johnson & Johnson (SBM DHC Liaison)
Syed Haider, Johnson & Johnson (SBM DHC Liaison)
Eric Hekler, University of California at San Diego (SBM Program Co-Chair)
Pedja Klasjna, Kaiser Permanente Washington
Donna Spruijt-Metz, University of Southern California
Elizabeth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology (CCC Liaison)
CRA - Uniting Industry, Academia and Government to Advance Computing Research and Change the World.
CCC - Catalyzing the computing research community and enabling the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research.
Increasing the Success and Participation of Underrepresented Groups in Computing Research.
CRA-E - Addressing society’s need for a continuous supply of talented and well-educated computing researchers.
CERP - Promoting diversity in computing through evaluation and research.
Increasing interaction between industry partners and other organizations involved in computing research for the benefit of all.
CRA Home | Contact Us | Unsubscribe/Removal of Information | Terms of Use         © Copyright 2021 - CRA
Fair Representations and Fair Interactive Learning CCC at AAAS
Scroll to top