EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada. 2020 – Present.
Master of Science (MSc), Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada. 2018 – 2020.
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. 2005 – 2010.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Co-Investigator, $147,629 CAD, 2023 – 2024
Generating a Portable Policy Framework for Digital Health Equity in Canada. Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, HONOURS & AWARDS
INTERNATIONAL
2022, FAccT 2022 Travel Scholarship, $2,450 USD
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability & Transparency
NATIONAL
2022 – 2023, AI for Public Health Doctoral Scholarship, $9,000 CAD
AI for Public Health Research Training Platform, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
2021 – 2025, SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, $80,000 CAD
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
2020, 2021, Best Student Abstract Award, $500 CAD
Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Conference.
2015, Strategy Magazine Public Service Award, Bronze (non-monetary)
Strategy Magazine, Canada.
PROVINCIAL
2021 – 2022, Benita M. Warmbold Fellowship in Health System Innovation, $4,500 CAD, Women’s College Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.
2018, Graduate Student Award, $12,500 CAD, VHA Home Healthcare, Toronto, Canada.
LOCAL
2022 – 2023, Data Science for Population Health and Health Systems Graduate Award, $10,000 CAD
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
2021 – 2022, Ethics of AI Graduate Research Fellowship, $2,500 CAD
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Canada
2020 – 2024, University of Toronto Fellowship (Doctoral Bursary), $44,000 CAD
University of Toronto, Canada
2019, Scholars Program in AI Ethics and Health, $10,000 CAD
Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada
PEER–REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Boyer, P., Donia, J., Whyne, C., Burns, D., & Shaw, J. (2022). Regulatory Regimes and Procedural Values for Health-Related Motion Data in the United States and Canada. Health Policy and Technology, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2022.100648
Donia, J., & Shaw, J. (2021). Ethics and values in design: a structured review and theoretical critique. Science and Engineering Ethics, 27(5), 57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00329-2
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: an agenda for critical research and practice. Big Data & Society, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211065248
Shaw, J., Donia, J. (2021). The sociotechnical ethics of digital health: a critique and extension of current approaches in bioethics. Frontiers in Digital Health, 3, 127. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.725088
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Donia, J, Shaw, J. Norms of co-design for digital health innovation. Invited book chapter submission to De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Health & Society.
J. Donia, Oyefeso, L., G. Embuldeniya, J. Shaw. Ethics considerations and design requirements in the lifecycle of an artificial intelligence technology for health.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS
Donia, J. (2022). Normative logics of algorithmic accountability. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). Seoul, South Korea. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533123.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: myths and misconceptions. Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 77. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461702.3462537
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2019). Design ethics and AI for health: a typology of approaches. Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Congress on Technology, Science and Society. Madrid, Spain.
SELECT FIRST-AUTHOR CONFERENCE PAPERS
Donia, J., Webster, F., Gibson, J., Shaw, J. (2023). Institutional ethnography and data justice: concepts, tensions, and practical applications. 2023 Data Justice Conference. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Donia, J. (2022). Normative logics of algorithmic accountability. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). Seoul, South Korea. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533123.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Ethics and values in design: a structured review and theoretical critique. Annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). Virtual.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: myths and misconceptions. Annual meeting of AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES). Virtual. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461702.3462537.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: myths and misconceptions. Annual meeting of the Canadian Bioethics Society. Virtual.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2019). Design ethics and AI for health: a typology of approaches. Annual International Congress on Technology, Science and Society. Madrid, Spain.
SERVICE
POLICY CONSULTATION & KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION
Invited Contributor, Mar 2022
The Social Life of Algorithmic Harms, Data & Society Institute, New York, NY
Invited Contributor, Nov 2021
Design for Values in Artificial Intelligence for Health, World Health Organization (WHO) and Delft University
Invited Contributor, Jul 2021
Summer Institute on AI for Public Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Co-Presenter, Feb 2021
Service Design for Community-based Health Innovation, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michaels Hospital. Toronto, Canada
CONFERENCES
Panel Co-Chair with J. Shaw, C. Pinel., & I. Van Hoyweghen. Conflict, contradiction, and crisis in data-intensive health innovation. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Conference (EASST), Madrid, Spain. Jul 2022 .
Panel Chair. Critiquing FAccT and AI ethics. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency (FAccT). Seoul, South Korea. Jun 2022.
Panel Co-Chair with J. Shaw. Practices of Justice, Ethics, and Participatory Research. Society for the Social Studies of Science Conference (4S), Online. Oct 2021.
PEER REVIEW
Reviewer, Big Data & Society, 2023
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/bds
Reviewer, Digital Health, 2022
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/dhj
MEMBERSHIP
2024 – Present. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
2021 – Present. Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
2020 – Present. Design Justice Network, International.
2019 – Present. University of Toronto Bioethics Society, Toronto, Canada
2019 – Present. Canadian Bioethics Society, Toronto, Canada