The Health Equity & Access to Learning (HEAL) Workgroup of the Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge (MCBK) movement works to ensure that power inherent in such knowledge becomes democratized as it is digitized. Our work is anchored in the shared MCBK Manifesto, starting with the recognition that:
“Knowledge has the potential to improve healthcare, the health of individuals, and the health of populations. Every decision affecting health should be informed by the best available knowledge. For moral and ethical reasons, it is imperative that each and every member of society have access to what is known at the time they are making health-related choices and decisions.”
In this hour-long session, we will share progress by those in the academic medical library community, in collaboration with other key healthcare stakeholders, in addressing the following questions:
- What is MCBK and why is it critical to transforming the future of health and advancing the Learning Health System (LHS) vision?
- How does MCBK build upon efforts to make health data - and knowledge derived from it - more accessible and actionable?
- How can such efforts advance health literacy to drive individual empowerment and better health for all?
- In what ways is MCBK promoting health equity?
- Why is health equity such a paramount consideration in shaping the future of healthcare and health?
- Where are the greatest opportunities to participate in realizing this collaborative transformation?
MCBK members, including several from the HEAL Workgroup, will lead this interactive session that will offer audience members opportunities to learn and to discuss.
Guest Presenters
Joshua C, Rubin, JD, MBA, MPH, MPP serves as Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School's first-of-its-kind Department of Learning Health Sciences. He also serves as Executive Director and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation. Previously, Rubin served as a Senior Policy Fellow at eHealth Initiative (eHI) and as a Senior Consultant at IBM Global Business Services, working at the intersection of the health information technology, health policy, consumer engagement, and public health arenas in both roles. A valedictorian, a life member of MENSA and Intertel, and a graduate of Georgetown University's College of Arts and Sciences (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Rubin holds a Juris Doctor (JD) law degree from Georgetown University Law Center (Cum Laude) and is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Georgetown University, as well as a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, all with healthcare concentrations (and all with high honors/distinction).
PF Anderson is the Emerging Technologies Informationist for the Health Sciences at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, holding the rank of Librarian. In this role they serve as liaison to the Precision Health Initiative, and as a liaison to and researcher with the Center for Disability Health and Wellness Research. PF's primary professional expertise lies in knowledge synthesis methodologies and methodology mashups of knowledge synthesis approaches with other methods, such as text mining, tech mining, and thematic analysis. In earlier work, PF has partnered and published with the Collaboration for Outcomes using Social Media in Oncology (COSMO), was the senior author of "The Medical Library Association Encyclopedic Guide to Searching and Finding Health Information on the Web," and first published about artificial intelligence in 1988.
Joshua Richardson, PhD, MS, MLIS, FAMIA was most recently a Senior Research Scientist at the Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center at Northwestern University. Based on his dual background in biomedical informatics research and librarianship, he provided strategic and operational leadership for Galter's research and knowledge management portfolio in priority areas such as: open science, data science and artificial intelligence, digital infrastructures and repository systems, evaluation and continuous improvement, and the mobilization of computable biomedical knowledge. He is currently co-chair of the MCBK North America Chapter Annual Meeting and is a former co-chair of the MCBK Trust & Policy Work Group.