✨We are thankful to have our interns continuing with the lab for the ‘25-‘26 school year! It has been awesome to have them as part of the team ☺️

ERIC team shows up!

✨Welcome to the team Dr. Malvika Pillai! Dr. Pillai is a biomedical informaticist with a strong foundation in machine and deep learning, data science, and natural language processing methods.

✨Happy Friday! Sharing a video made by our collaborators at @tourocalifornia.bsky.social for the user-centered design (UCD) course celebration last night. It was an honor for our lab at @yalesph.bsky.social to be a part of this effort with Exonerated Nation. youtu.be/mKrX2zqAixA?...

✨We are looking forward to welcoming our summer interns Kayla Hightower, Wisdom Dayok, and Kudrat Kadelu to campus this week for the on-site visit! It has been great working with them this summer. Truly amazing students from Morgan State University, Fisk University, and Spelman College.✨

✨Cheers to a great year! Congratulations to our graduates 🎓

✨If you are attending #CHI2025, stop by poster #LBW-113 to talk with Teresa K. O'Leary, Ph.D. about Care Pathways.

✨We are presenting our LBW paper at #CHI2025. "It was Empowering": Care Pathways a Novel Culturally Informed Inspiration Card Game for Community-Engaged Co-Design with Black American Women and Clinicians dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

✨That’s a wrap for classes. The user-centered design of digital health tools students’ final presentations were excellent! 🤯 Thank you to Dr. Cindy Brandt and KP Yelpaala for their insightful feedback to the teams. Excited to see where some of the teams take their ideas. 👏🏾 @yalesph.bsky.social

✨Earth Day 🌎🌳🌊

✨The #HealthInformatics program at @yalesph.bsky.social hosted our student and faculty lunch today. It was a great time to get together and discuss everything from pets to post-graduation plans! 😊

✨Teresa K. O'Leary, Ph.D. and @telementalhlth.bsky.social led a tutorial this afternoon on community-engaged approaches for digital health co-design at Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (virtually)📱

✨The DiscoTech at @yalesph.bsky.social #PublicHealthDay was amazing! 🪩 We enjoyed talking to the students about public health topics they felt were important, and teaching them how to design health tech to address those topics.📱

✨We are getting everything ready for our “Disco Tech” session for #PublicHealthDay at @yalesph.bsky.social

It’s almost time for our end of year dinner and graduation celebration 🎉 🎓🏆

✨#CHILatYale is happy to offer a paid summer internship for undergraduates at the institutions listed. Come learn how to design health tech and enjoy summer in New Haven. 📱😎 #HealthTech #UX #UI #ConsumerHealthInformatics #HCI #PublicHealth

✨Our team at The Check Up w/ Google event. It was so cool to see what they have been working on. 💡👏🏾👏🏾 @yalesph.bsky.social

✨ Join Teresa K. O'Leary, Ph.D. and I for a tutorial on community-engaged approaches for digital health co-design on April 7th 1-3pm. Registration is required. Center for Technology and Behavioral Health📱 Please register here 🔗: dartmouth.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happy Pi Day!

✨Celebrating the women who keep our lab moving forward. These brilliant compassionate leaders allow us to continue the work cocreating digital health tools with communities that are underserved with the goal to improve health outcomes.✨ Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 💞 @yalesph.bsky.social

✨Today and everyday, we celebrate the resilience, innovation, and leadership of women shaping our future all around the world! ✨💞 #InternationalWomensDay.

📱The Digital Health Equity Conference was amazing! I would like to thank Dr. Jessica Jackson (keynote and panelist), Dr. Karen Wang (panelist), and Mark Abraham (panelist) for the insightful discussion during our session on Data Equity & Digital Health Solutions. @yalesph.bsky.social

✨Completed the NSF I-Corps Customer Discovery Program at @yaleventures.bsky.social 🚀

✨Day 1 of the Digital Health Equity: Local Empowerment, Global Alignment Conference has been great! Big smiles from the planning committee with Bhramar Mukherjee, Brian Wahl, Forrest Crawford, Kaakpema "KP" Yelpaala. ✨ @yalesph.bsky.social

📱 I am looking forward to the Digital Health Equity: Local Empowerment, Global Alignment Conference on March 4-5! I will be the moderator for the "Data Equity & Digital Health Solutions" session. 👉 Register here: web.cvent.com/event/49ad15... ✨ @yalesph.bsky.social

✨Happy Valentine’s Day from CHIL 💌

✨Today and every day, we celebrate the brilliance, resilience, and contributions of women and girls in science! #WomeninSTEM 🩷

✨We are so excited about the new prototype we are working on. Major updates include the culturally responsive Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy features 🔥🚀

✨Suggestions on how to protect your mental health during times of uncertainty 🫂

✨ As a music lover, I wanted to see what the musical taste are for the students in the User-Centered Design of Digital Health Tools class at Yale School of Public Health. 🎧 We created a 🔥 playlist to play before and after class ✨

✨We are off Monday, January 20th to reflect on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.✨

✨ Glad to be back teaching a topic I love, user-centered design of digital health tools ✨

✨Check out our paper, “I think we're on a cusp of some change”: coping and support for mental wellness among Black American women. Coauthors: Meagan Foster, Holly Tomlin, MPH, Bolatito Adepoju, Mckenzie Bolton-Johnson, and Dr Chyrell Bellamy✨ 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

✨Welcome Back! Wishing you a great semester at @yalesph.bsky.social ✨

✨ Update from the Principal: A teacher made a deal with the auntie that if she sent the children to school they would be provided with breakfast and lunch and they showed up. Providing breakfast and lunch is proven to reduce absenteeism.

We need more global health partnerships that addresss BOTH basic needs and mental wellness. 🇯🇲 w/ Co-PI Carol Oladele #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #ChildHealth #MentalHealth #FoodInsecurity #Nutrition

✨ School is back in session and the school canteen has been restocked with items such as Lasco, condensed milk, and corned beef to supply the children with breakfast and lunch. We are building partnerships in Jamaica to support efforts to address food insecurity and mental wellness. 🇯🇲

💡Did you know that food insecurity is a social determinant of mental health? We need more global health partnerships that address BOTH basics needs and mental wellness. 🍎 w / Co-PI Carol Oladele #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #ChildHealth #MentalHealth #FoodInsecurity #Nutrition

✨Excited about our forthcoming paper, “I think we're on a cusp of some change”: coping and support for mental wellness among Black American women. Coauthors: Meagan Foster, Holly Tomlin, MPH, Bolatito Adepoju, Mckenzie Bolton-Johnson, LCMHC, and Dr Chyrell Bellamy✨

✨As we kick-off the New Year, we want to share 4 Visions for User-Centered Design of Digital Health Solutions Grounded in Equity✨

Wishing you a Happy New Year from #CHILatYale! We will resume Jan 6, 2025

Happy Holidays from the #CHILatYale team!

✨The Consumer Health Informatics Lab at Yale is now on Bluesky. Please follow our new page for the latest updates from the lab. ✨

✨ The application for the Big Data Summer Immersion program at @yalesph.bsky.social is now open! ✨ 🔗 sph.yale.edu/bdsy

Happy Birthday to our Director, Dr. Terika McCall 🎉🎂

The CHIL team really enjoyed hanging out at Elm City Games tonight. It was my first time playing Telestrations. You can guess which sketch is mine and which is @vignesh-hk.bsky.social 😂. The word was “escalator”