Distinguished Lecture Series: Tiffany Veinot, Joan C. Durrance Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan's School of Information
Date & Time: April 20, 2026 from 12:10 PM - 01:15 PM
Location: E208 Westgate Building
"Leveling Up: Advancing Upstream Health Informatics Interventions to Promote Health and Healthcare Equity”
This talk outlines a research program to develop, implement, and evaluate novel sociotechnical interventions—including both technological and human elements—for health and healthcare equity. Interventions emanating from this research program focus “upstream,” addressing the structural and social determinants of health. The research uses a “community health informatics” approach, which is grounded in community and clinical engagement, interdisciplinary team science, social and behavioral sciences theory, mixed methods, and translational impact. The presentation highlights examples of research contributions focused on upstream intervention targets in health systems, living conditions, and social networks. The talk also touches on the conceptual and methodological advances enabling these contributions. The presentation will conclude with future directions for this research program.
About the Speaker
Tiffany Veinot is Joan C. Durrance Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She is also a full professor at the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at the University of Michigan and was a visiting professor at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in the United Kingdom (2023–2024). She has 114 published peer-reviewed papers, and her publications have garnered 19 honors and awards. She has held 28 extramural research funding awards from entities in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom totaling more than $20 million. She is a founding faculty member and former director of the master of health informatics program at the University of Michigan and previously served as the associate dean for faculty at the School of Information. She was elected to the American College of Medical Informatics in 2022.
About the Distinguished Lecture Series.
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