Designing for whom? Digital health solutions and the equity gap
Workshop hosted by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) and SSGH
This workshop will explore what the concept of “techquity” demands of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, and what it looks like when citizen science and co-creation genuinely change the outcome. Whether your work touches on health, law, technology, social science, or policy, this is a conversation that concerns us all.
Event details of
Designing for whom? Digital health solutions and the equity gap
- Date
- 3 July 2026
- Time
- 14:00 -17:30
Digital health technologies, from smartphone apps to AI-driven diagnostics, are increasingly positioned as tools for a healthier and more equitable world. Yet too often, they are designed for vulnerable populations rather than with them, reproducing the very inequalities they set out to address. This event brings together fellows from across disciplines to critically examine what it takes to build equity into the design of digital health solutions from the outset, not as an afterthought.
Programme
- Keynote: Prof Tarun Katapally, founder of the Digital Epidemiology and Precision Health Laboratory (DEPtH Lab) and Canada Research Chair in Digital Health for Equity at Western University, Canada,
- Cross-disciplinary responses,
- Open question period,
- Role-play exercise in which participants work through a real-world digital health scenario together,
- Borrel and networking.