Join Us: One Day Workshop - September 10, 2024
The Wearable Innovations for Health Equity workshop, hosted jointly by Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and Center for Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare (WISH Center), aims to raise awareness and discuss the transformative impact of wearable technologies in promoting wellness and increasing equitable health outcomes. This event will gather impacted community members, researchers, engineers, and practitioners to discuss the use of wearable devices across diverse populations, bridging data gaps for inclusive healthcare, supporting age equity through innovation, empowering minority health, and tailoring wearable technologies to meet gender-specific health needs. The workshop will feature two keynote speakers addressing wearable technological innovations in the morning and health equity challenges in the afternoon.
Participants from institutions, such as Georgia Tech, Emory University, Georgia State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and University of Georgia will provide insights into their ongoing projects, offering a perspective on the funding environment and new collaboration opportunities ideal for wearable device and technology applications. The workshop is designed to highlight the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration, emphasizing people-centered approaches and the conversion of foundational research into actionable solutions.
An IPaT and WISH Center overview session will explore ways to support new initiatives and collaborations. Additionally, a potential panel session will include voices from impacted community members. These discussions will focus on managing chronic conditions using both sophisticated and simple technological solutions. The event will also include poster sessions, allowing participants to exhibit their innovative research and applications in wearable technologies.
Public/Industry Ticket ($50)
Student Ticket ($25)
Georgia Tech Student/Faculty/Staff ($25/$50)
AGENDA
- Continental breakfast and registration -
Morning agenda*
• Welcome
• Morning keynote – emerging wearable tech
• Lighting talks
• Poster session
• Lunch (poster session ongoing)
Afternoon agenda*
• Panel: The real experts: Health wearable users and their realities
• Funding sources and building teams
• Afternoon keynote – health equity and wearables
• Panel: GT research and what’s next
• Reception and networking
* More details to be added as event nears
Wei Gao, Ph.D.
Morning Keynote Speaker
Wei Gao
Assistant Professor, Medical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Bio: Wei Gao is an assistant professor of medical engineering, Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar, and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of California, San Diego in 2014. In 2014–2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an associate editor of Science Advances, npj Flexible Electronics, and Sensors & Diagnostics. He is a recipient of NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, IAMBE Early Career Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, ACS DIC Young Investigator Award, and Materials Today Rising Star Award. He is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist, a member of Global Young Academy, and a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science). His research interests include wearable sensors, bioelectronics, flexible electronics, and micro/nanorobotics. For more information about Gao's research, visit gao.caltech.edu.
Tabia Henry Akintobi, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Afternoon Keynote Speaker
Tabia Henry Akintobi
Professor and Chair, Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
Bio: Akintobi is a professor within the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and serves as director of its Prevention Research Center (PRC), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is also director of Morehouse School of Medicine's Evaluation and Institutional Assessment. These leadership posts build upon her role in establishing The PRC's Evaluation Unit, which has demonstrated assessment capacities through leading the evaluation of several NIH research, training and infrastructure grants, among others awarded by federal, non-governmental, and private foundations, through the provision of program evaluation capacity building and technical assistance to community‐based organizations, public health practitioners, academicians, researchers, and health care organizations conducting initiatives to address chronic health disparities or to conduct effective research translation. She conducts these activities incorporating expertise in the areas of community-engaged research, social marketing, and participatory mixed-methods evaluation.
