Health TechQuity Journal Club

This year, the Health TechQuity Journal Club scaffolds its 2026–27 schedule around the TechQuity at Every Life Stage theme of the Health TechQuity 2027 Conference (March 3–4, 2027, 91´«Ã½³§). Sessions cycle through the conference's four life-stage breakouts (early life, adolescence/emerging adulthood, midlife, later life) a few times.  Each session will deliberately attend to the technology itself, but will add discussion about consent, individual autonomy, and surveillance. Facilitators are a mix of conference-adjacent speakers (to build relationships ahead of March) and standalone article-author recruitment, like last year's model.

Goal & Aims 

Build a community of scholarly practice and research productivity focused on leveraging emerging technologies to achieve health equity.

  • Familiarize 91´«Ã½³§ scholars with critical concepts and issues at the intersection of health equity and technological development.
  • Facilitate opportunities for scholars across disciplines to convene.
  • Enable ideation of possible research projects and transdisciplinary collaboration.

Participation Expectations

  • Transparent — adjust your profile to reflect your preferred name and pronouns.
  • Respect — listen attentively, speak plainly, recognize our diverse backgrounds, experience, and training.
  • Engage — probing and challenging are welcome; personal attacks are not.
  • Focus — avoid multitasking, mute other devices, and keep your hands off the keyboard (unless using chat).
  • Prepare — read the identified content in advance and come with questions, thoughts, or concerns.
  • Smile — bonus points to everyone who turns their camera on.
Calendar of Articles and Registrations
Date & Registration Link Facilitator

September 11, 2026

 

Dr. Diane Cook, Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University

 

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October 9, 2026

 

Dr. Jean Costello, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University School of Public Health

 

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November 13, 2026

 

TBA

 

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December 11, 2026

 

TBA

 

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February 12, 2027

 

Dr. Tahsin Mullick, teaches U.S. AP Computer Science, Robotics, and STEM at The Montgomery Academy. 

 

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March 12, 2027

 

Dr. Devansh Saxena, Assistant Professor, The Information School, University of Wisconsin

 

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April 9, 2027

 

Dr. David Grande, Professor, General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

 

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May 14, 2027

 

Dr. Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, Associate Professor, Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health.

 

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