Published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Smart Lighting is widely viewed as a means to reduce energy use, streamline city services and lower maintenance costs of public lighting. These are valid perspectives and useful pursuits, but they leave a blind spot that needs urgent attention: how the application of Smart Lighting technologies could affect and benefit people in public space. Illum...
Design probes, a significant research tool during the COVID-19 pandemic, are ancillary "personal" data gathering tools that enable researchers to enter the private world of research participants. This paper compares two case studies of design probes used during the pandemic for radical placemaking in hybrid digital-physical environments: Digital Ar...
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Published in BMC Public Health
Background Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) infections are prevalent among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. However, compared to syphilis and HIV, the testing rate for chlamydia and gonorrhea remains low. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the feasibility for conducting rapid nucleic acid test for chla...
Published in BMC proceedings
Patient navigation (PN) represents a branch of service delivery traditionally aimed at coordinating disjointed care services for patients with particular health conditions (e.g., cancer, HIV, diabetes). Over time, this approach has been extended to various social and health contexts, including most recently to children with neurodisability and thei...
Published in International journal of health policy and management
Deliberative dialogues (DDs) are used in policy-making and healthcare research to enhance knowledge exchange and research implementation strategies. They allow organized dissemination and integration of relevant research, contextual considerations, and input from diverse stakeholder perspectives. Despite recent interest in involving patient and pub...
Published in MedEdPORTAL : the Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources
Introduction Academic health centers (AHCs) play critical roles in population health by providing health care, conducting population health research, and providing population health training and education. This publication describes an interactive, multipart, case-based session targeted at AHC executives, faculty, and administrators about populatio...
Autism research offers many direct benefits to participants, and the conclusions from studies are often integrated into evidence-based policy and practice within healthcare and education systems. For decades, autism research has vastly underrepresented the experiences of minoritized racial and ethnic groups. Without representation in research, diag...
Involuntary loneliness has become a societal challenge and might be developed into mental illness. Social inclusion is believed to be a key factor of mental wellness. It is important for decision makers to put in intersectoral efforts to enhance social interaction and create social belongingness which would be beneficial to the well-being of commun...
Published in Ethnicity & Disease
Purpose Enhancing the bidirectional benefit of precision medicine research infrastructure may advance equity in research participation for diverse groups. This study explores the use of research infrastructure to provide human-centered COVID-19 resources to participants as a part of their research participation. Design The All of Us New England (Ao...
