Health TechQuity Journal Club

Goal: Build a community of scholarly practice and research productivity focused on leveraging emerging technologies to achieve health equity.

Aims:

  1. Familiarize SJSU scholars with critical concepts and issues at the intersection of health equity and technological development.
  2. Facilitate opportunities for scholars across disciplines to convene.
  3. Enable ideation of possible research projects and transdisciplinary collaboration.
Calendar of Articles and Registrations
Date & Registration Link Facilitator

September 12

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #1

Dr. Behin Elahi, Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, SJSU


Dr. Somayeh ‘Bahar’ Shahsavarani, Assistant Professor, Audiology, SJSU

 

Target Article:

Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) in Mobile Health: Key Components and Design Principles for Ongoing Health Behavior Support. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 52(6), 446–462.

October 10

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #2

Dr. Trevor van Mierlo

Entrepreneur and CEO of Evolution Health

 

Target Article:

Developing a Behavioral Phenotyping Layer for Artificial Intelligence-Driven Predictive Analytics in a Digital Resiliency Course: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR research protocols, 14, e73773. 

November 14

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #3

Daniel A. Adler, PhD Candidate

Information Science at Cornell University

 

Target Article:

Measuring algorithmic bias to analyze the reliability of AI tools that predict depression risk using smartphone sensed-behavioral data. Npj Mental Health Research, 3(1), 17. 

February 13

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #4

Dr. Diane Cook, Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University

 

Target Article:

Building a Human Digital Twin (HDTwin) Using Large Language Models for Cognitive Diagnosis: Algorithm Development and Validation. JMIR formative research, 8, e63866. 

March 13

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #5

Dr. Sayma Akther, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, SJSU

 

Target Article:

Visualization-driven AI ensuring quality in wearable time-series sensor data for healthcare. IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 1502-1510, doi: 10.1109/CAI64502.2025.00295.  

April 14 

 

Health TechQuity Journal Club #6 (Tentative)

Dr. Yu Wang, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, SJSU

 

Target Article:

Hu, Y., Hsiao-Wecksler, E. T., & Hernandez, M. E. (2025). Exploration of the effects of Tai Chi practice on lower limb corticomuscular coherence during balance-demanding virtual reality conditions in older adults. Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 17, 1554000. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2025.1554000