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Date July 20, 2022
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CDH Seminar 7/20 with Dr. Megan Ranney "Equitable and Inclusive Digital Health Innovation"

Digital health innovations have the potential to save lives, cut costs, and reach people across racial, socioeconomic, age, and rural/urban divides. However, a lens of equity and inclusivity must be applied to the design and dissemination process to ensure the innovations work for everyone. In this session, Dr. Megan Ranney and Dr. Kimani Toussaint, discuss practices for infusing equity and inclusion into the digital health innovation process. Both presenters are faculty leads for the Digital Health Innovation Certificate.

This presentation also includes information about the Brown University Digital Health Innovation Certificate Program.

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  • Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP

    Megan Ranney MD, MPH, FACEP

    Founding Director, Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, Deputy Dean, Brown University School of Public Health, Warren Alpert Foundation Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Dean and Director of Brown Institute for Translational Sciences, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

    Megan Ranney MD MPH is a practicing emergency physician, researcher, and advocate for innovative approaches to health. Her work focuses on the intersection between digital health, violence prevention, and population health.  

    She is the founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, as well as the Deputy Dean for the Brown University School of Public Health. She is also Chief Research Officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (www.affirmresearch.org), the country's only non-profit committed to reducing firearm injury through the public health approach, and a founding partner of GetUsPPE.org, dedicated to matching donors to health systems in need of protective equipment. She is a Fellow of the fifth class of the Aspen Health Innovators Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. 
     
    She graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in History of Science in 1997. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote d'Ivoire prior to attending medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in NYC. She graduated with AOA status and received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award from the Gold Humanism Society on graduation. She completed internship, residency, and chief residency in Emergency Medicine, as well as a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research and a Master of Public Health, at Brown University.

    She is currently the Warren Alpert Endowed Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is an editor for the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has previously served as an appointed member of HIMSS' mHealth Physician Taskforce, an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and chair of the Firearm Injury Research Technical Advisory Group for the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has been PI or Co-I over a dozen federally funded grants, all focused on technology-based interventions for high risk populations.

    Her work has been featured by hundreds of media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Fox News. 

  • kimani-toussaint

    Kimani C. Toussaint Jr., PhD

    Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Engineering

    K. C. Toussaint, Jr., Ph.D. is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the School of Engineering at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown, Dr. Toussaint was on faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 12 years, where he rose to the rank of Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. Dr. Toussaint directs the laboratory for Photonics Research of Bio/nano Environments (PROBE Lab), an interdisciplinary research group which focuses on both developing nonlinear optical imaging techniques for quantitative assessment of biological tissues, and novel methods for harnessing plasmonic nanostructures for light-driven control of matter. He is a recipient of a 2010 NSF CAREER Award, the 2014-2015 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Associate Professor at MIT, the 2015 Illinois Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, the 2017 Illinois Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, and the 2019 Distinguished Promotion Award. Dr. Toussaint is also a Fellow of the OSA and SPIE, and Senior Member in the IEEE. In addition, he served as the PI and inaugural Director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Nanomanufacturing (nanoMFG) Node at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2017-2019.

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