A recent CNN article titled “Black or ‘Other’? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health,” discusses how race has both historically affected and currently impacts the medical decisions that doctor’s make and the subsequent care that patients receive. Among the examples it covers is the controversial eGFR (Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate), which is used to measure kidney function. eGFR is calculated through a formula that includes your blood creatinine level (creatinine is a waste product that is filtered from your blood by your kidneys) as well as other variables such as age, sex, and race. However, as CNN states, “When it comes to race, doctors […]

Part 2 of the Catalyzing Computing podcast with Keith Marzullo is out now! In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews CCC Council Member Dr. Keith Marzullo, who became the Dean of the College of Information Studies (also known as the iSchool) at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2016. Prior to that, he directed the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. In this episode, Dr. Marzullo discusses joining an iSchool as a computer scientist, the latest projects at the Maryland iSchool, and the future of cybersecurity. If you haven’t already, listen to part 1 of the podcast here. Stream the episode below or listen through iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play and subscribe to receive notifications […]

A new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is out now! In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Keith Marzullo, the Dean of the College of Information Studies (also known as the iSchool) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the iSchool from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he directed the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. On the podcast, Dr. Marzullo discusses his research background, experience teaching, and his time spent in the federal government. Stream the episode below or listen through iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play and subscribe to receive notifications every time a new episode is released. Part 2 of the interview with Dr. Marzullo will […]

How does social science and government policy affect technology? That was the main question the Socio-technical Cybersecurity: It’s All About People scientific session attempted to answer at this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual meeting in Washington, DC. The session was moderated by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Director Ann Drobnis, and CCC Council Member Keith Marzullo (University of Maryland, College Park) was the discussant for the panel, which included participating speakers: Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft Research) highlighted the challenges in cybersecurity in the age of cloud and edge computing in his presentation Cyberspace: Enabling Trustworthy and Autonomous Agency; David Mussington (University of Maryland, College Park) discussed the necessity of […]

This blog post contains contributions from an upcoming special issue of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association In April 2018, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held a visioning workshop on Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction. The workshop brought together leading researchers from computing, health informatics, behavioral medicine, and health disparities to develop an integrative research agenda that will advance sociotechnical interventions capable of reducing health disparities and improving the health outcomes of socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Four main themes were addressed during the course of the workshop: Theory to Design and Implementation: “How do researchers appropriately identify and map theory to design, implementation, and evaluation?” Sociotechnical System Blackboxes: “How […]

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) will hold a webinar on sociotechnical interventions for health disparity reduction on Wednesday, May 16th at 1pm ET. During the webinar, Katie Siek (Indiana) and Tiffany Veinot (Michigan) will discuss the conclusions from the recent Computing Community Consortium (CCC) workshop of the same name. On April 9-10, 2018, the CCC held a visioning workshop on Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction, co-located with the Society for Behavioral Medicine 39th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, in order to examine the opportunities and challenges facing sociotechnical interventions designed to improve the health of disadvantaged populations and reduce health disparities within them. Health disparities are the differences in […]