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A Transdisciplinary Approach to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa
(MDPI, 2021-04-17)The health sector response to dealing with the impacts of climate change on human health, whether mitigative or adaptive, is influenced by multiple factors and necessitates creative approaches drawing on resources across ... -
Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review
(2020-11)Safe and secure water is a cornerstone of modern life in the global North. This article critically examines a set of prevalent myths about household water in high-income countries, with a focus on Canada and the United ... -
Using Timeline Methodology to Visualize Treatment Trajectories of Youth and Young Adults Following Inpatient Opioid Treatment
(2020-10-28)While the use of visual methods in qualitative research is gaining recognition, there has been less attention to timelines. This paper addresses this gap and contributes to the overall literature on qualitative research ... -
Qualitative exploration of the medical learner's journey into correctional health care at an academic medical center and its implications for medical education
(2020-10-19)Correctional systems in several U.S. states have entered into partnerships with academic medical centers (AMCs) to provide healthcare for persons who are incarcerated. One AMC specializing in the care of incarcerated ... -
A Successful Experiment in Participatory Science for Promoting Change in a French Industrial Region
(Society for Social Studies of Science, 2017)The author and her team worked with the residents in an industrial area in France to produce a participatory epidemiological study about their health. The final report, drafted with input from the citizens, attracted the ... -
Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis
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Cost-Effectiveness of Risk-Stratified Colorectal Cancer Screening Based on Polygenic Risk: Current Status and Future Potential
(2020-02)Background: Although uniform colonoscopy screening reduces colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality, risk-based screening may be more efficient. We investigated whether CRC screening based on polygenic risk is a cost-effective ... -
Transmobility: Possibilities in Cyborg (Cripborg) Bodies
This creative, experimental contribution blends written words and sketches depicting our crip bodies engaging with various mobility technologies, including crutches, walkers, prosthetic limbs, and manual and power wheelchairs. ... -
Collaborative Workshops for Community Meaning-Making and Data Analyses: How Focus Groups Strengthen Data by Enhancing Understanding and Promoting Use
(MDPI, 2019-09-11)Community-based participatory research is a growing approach, but often includes higher levels of community engagement in the research design and data collection stages than in the data interpretation stage. Involving study ... -
Does America Need More Innovators?
(MIT Press, 2019-04)Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, ... -
New Technology for a New Nation: Building an Internet Culture in Estonia
(1999)As in many areas of the history of technology, studies of the Internet are still largely limited to the United States and other established capitalist democracies. More research is needed on how such technologies are ... -
Remaking the Innovator Imperative
(The MIT Press, 2019)“Remaking the Innovator Imperative” is Chapter 19 of the edited volume Does America Need More Innovators? (The MIT Press, 2019). -
The Innovator Imperative
(The MIT Press, 2019)“The Innovator Imperative” is Chapter 1 of the edited volume Does America Need More Innovators? (The MIT Press, 2019). -
Make Maintainers: Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care
(The MIT Press, 2019)“Make Maintainers: Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care” is Chapter 13 of the edited volume Does America Need More Innovators? (The MIT Press, 2019). -
Code Switch: Rethinking Computer Expertise as Empowerment
(Virginia Tech, 2016-05-06)Claims that technical mastery of computing and new media will provide a route to economic success for oppressed groups have become ubiquitous in American public discourse. From commercial enterprises like Codecademy, to ... -
Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region
(Sage, 2018)This article draws insights from a case study examining unanswered health questions of residents in two polluted towns in an industrial region in southern France. A participatory health study, as conducted by the author, ... -
Up-Standing Norms, Technology, and Disability
(2016-05-13)Presentation as part of a panel on Discrimination and Technology at IEEE Ethics 2016 -
WE CAN REBUILD YOU: disabled bodies in technological imagination
(2016-02-04)Invited Talk at Old Dominion University -
Epistemic Burdens and the Value of Ignorance
(2015-12-13)
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