Digital Planetary Health

Generative AI tools are increasingly being used to expand access to health care and to scale our capacity to develop data-driven solutions to climate crises. As these tools proliferate, it is vital that we understand the impacts they have on both human and planetary health. This workshop draws on emerging scholarship and the Principled Innovation framework to help Rob Walton College of Global Futures undergraduate and graduate students to understand how they can use their training to address these challenges to global health and to anticipate others to come.

Light refreshments will be served.

Workshop Conveners:

• Beza Merid, Ph.D. -
  • Dr. Beza Merid is an assistant professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. He is a scholar of digital health innovation and equity, the director of the Digital Health and Racial Justice Lab, and the Principled Innovation faculty catalyst for the College of Global Futures. His work explores the social impacts of AI use in health care, with particular emphasis on how AI-enabled health technologies and the practices of care that emerge around them can reproduce existing social biases and inequities.
• Janna Goebel, Ph.D. -
  • Dr. Janna Goebel specializes in sustainability education and community engagement at Arizona State University where she is Clinical Assistant Professor and the Inaugural Faculty Lead for Community Engagement in the School of Sustainability. In 2022, she established a fully online work-integrated learning course called Enterprise-based Sustainability Education through which her students create educational materials about sustainability for industry partners from small fintech startups to Fortune 500 companies. Most recently, students partnered with National Wildlife Federation to explore the environmental impacts of AI.