{"690198":{"#nid":"690198","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Proposal by Sherilyn Francis ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EDesigning Women\u2019s Health AI for Equity: Representation, Governance, and Evaluation across Cultural Context\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESherilyn Francis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. Student in Human-centered Computing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EMay 14, 2026\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;online\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgatech.zoom.us%2Fj%2F95301312525\u0026amp;data=05%7C02%7Ctm186%40gtvault.onmicrosoft.com%7C3dc1fbe892cc4f399b2608deac9a6c27%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C1%7C0%7C639137976413971488%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C\u0026amp;sdata=KEdRcBY3pnp7dAtyydKgYWQ5h6hTJkp9vcSPnsZyies%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/95301312525\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. \u200bAndrea Parker (Advisor) - School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Neha Kuma - School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Naveena Karusala - School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Daprim Ogaji - African Centre of Excellence in Public\u0026nbsp;Health \u0026amp; Toxicological Research, University of Port Harcourt\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mercy Asiedu, Google Research\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWomen\u2019s health remains structurally underrepresented in clinical research, healthcare delivery, and technology design, creating persistent inequities in diagnosis, support, and self-management across reproductive and perinatal life stages. This dissertation argues that women\u2019s health AI should be understood not only as a technical problem, but as a sociotechnical problem of representation, interaction and trust, governance and accountabilty, and evaluation and equity. It asks how women\u2019s health AI should represent women\u2019s lived experiences, support safe and trustworthy interaction, distribute responsibility between patients, clinicians, and AI systems, and be evaluated in ways that demonstrate equity rather than assume it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address these questions, the dissertation integrates completed and proposed studies across digital health and AI. The completed empirical studies examine Black women\u2019s postpartum health in rural Georgia and Black women\u2019s sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention in the United States, indicating that women engage health technologies when those systems are culturally grounded, privacy-aware, trustworthy, and responsive to lived constraints. A scoping review of participatory AI in women\u2019s health demonstrates that participation has most often shaped interaction design and problem framing, but has rarely been translated into shared governance, model-level evaluation, or equity-demonstrating evidence. A decolonizing analysis of Black women\u2019s sexual and reproductive health further shows that women\u2019s health technologies must confront historical power, epistemic exclusion, and culturally narrow assumptions about whose knowledge counts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBuilding on these findings, the proposed studies focus on perinatal mental health in Nigeria to derive clinician-defined interaction contracts and patient-grounded evaluation criteria for maternal health AI. Together, the dissertation contributes a methodological pathway for designing women\u2019s health AI that is grounded in women\u2019s definitions of harm, helpfulness, and acceptable support, and that treats equity as a property of representational design, governance, and evaluative rigor across cultural contexts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDesigning Women\u2019s Health AI for Equity: Representation, Governance, and Evaluation across Cultural Context\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Designing Women\u2019s Health AI for Equity: Representation, Governance, and Evaluation across Cultural Context"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2026-05-08 14:46:15","changed_gmt":"2026-05-08 14:47:17","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-05-14T09:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2026-05-14T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-05-14T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-05-14 13:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-05-14 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-05-14 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"online","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"102851","name":"Phd proposal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}