Part two of Khari Douglas' interview with Dr. Katie Siek, a professor in Informatics and the Chair of Informatics at Indiana University – Bloomington. Dr. Siek is interested in integrating pervasive technologies in health and wellness environments to study how technology affects interventions. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and health informatics. In this episode Katie discusses health disparities and how computing technologies can play a role in their reduction, as well as the challenges to doing health informatics research in the field.

Timestamps to jump to certain topics:Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction - (1:07)Ethical Use of Data in Research - (14:36)Challenges to Studying Usability of Technology Systems in the Wild - (20:50)Social Media and Health - (28:05)Proactive Health Informatics RU - (31:00)Dream Health Informatics Research Center - (32:50)Outro - (37:11)