Drawing on perspectives from the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), my work addresses the responsible governance of data-intensive health innovation. I’m particularly interested in the comparative dimensions of digital health, including how technical infrastructures and popular imaginaries generate different health-related futures. I am currently a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Milan, and Associate Fellow at the Institute for Technoscience and Society at York University, Canada.

Conceptually my work draws on relational approaches that trace how actors, infrastructures, devices, and expectations shape particular outcomes. To this end, my work has addressed trust and trustworthiness, participation and co-design, designer agency, accountability, policy regimes, data assetization, and key events in Al development and use.

Empirically, I employ qualitative methods, including case study research and institutional ethnography. My research has also taken the form of collaborations with Al development teams, where I worked to produce design deliverables oriented to informing use.

In my current postdoctoral work I extend these lines of inquiry to the role of data economies in global politics and health innovation ecosystems, including especially the promises and practices that go into making digital health data available in Canada and the European Union through emerging health data spaces.

I have held policy, research, and advisory roles within the Ontario Ministry of Health, Women’s College Hospital, University of Toronto, and Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.

My work has been published in leading interdisciplinary venues including Big Data & Society, Social Studies of Science, Science and Engineering Ethics, the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), and the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES).

I hold a Bachelor of Arts from Toronto Metropolitan University, and a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto.

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