Responsible Health Innovation
Lead Researcher - Jay Shaw
Research Platforms
Research Overview
Jay’s program of research addresses the implementation and ethical implications of innovations in health care, with a special focus on innovative models of equity-promoting community-based care, digital health technologies, and applications of AI in health care. His research leverages qualitative social science approaches, and draws on theory from organization studies and science & technology studies. Jay partners closely with community members and health system stakeholders to ensure his research is practically relevant, and his work informs the ethical design of health system innovations that advance social justice in aging, public health and health care.
Jay is leading current research projects in three specific areas:
- Ethical design of AI for health: Jay uses qualitative and ethical design methods to study the values that are built into AI and digital technologies for use in health care and public health. Current projects include a focus on rehabilitation, public health, and data infrastructures for use in health and public health.
- Health equity and virtual care: Jay’s team studies the ways that organizations can more prominently build health equity considerations into their use of virtual care and digital health technologies. Current projects relate to the policy frameworks, organizational strategy, clinical workflows, and community experiences to promote health equity in virtual care.
- Equity-promoting community care: Jay’s team studies innovations in community-based care that centre the experiences and priorities of structurally marginalized communities. Jay collaborates with community partners and policymakers to explore strategies for more equitable futures of community care.
People
Collaborators
- Jennifer Gibson, Director, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto
- Aisha Lofters, Chair in Implementation Science, Women’s College Hospital
- Onil Bhattacharyya, Director, Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care
- Billie-Jo Hardy, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
- Ambreen Sayani, Postdoctoral Fellow, Women’s College Hospital
- Carolyn Steele Gray, Sinai Health System
- Walter Wodchis, University of Toronto
- Ross Baker, University of Toronto
And many more!
International
- Chris Cassel, University of California San Francisco
- Katie Shilton, University of Maryland
- Wiljeana Glover, Babson College
- Tiffany Veinot, University of Michigan
- LaPrincess Brewer, Mayo Clinic
- Sara Shaw, University of Oxford
Staff
- Shivani Chandra, Operations Lead, Women’s College Hospital
- Simone Shahid, Research Coordinator, Women’s College Hospital
Trainees
- Dara Gordon, MPH, PhD Student, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
- Joseph Donia, MSc, PhD Student, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
- Carolyn Quinlan, MSc Student, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
- Bisma Imtiaz, PhD Student, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Join Us
Jay is accepting Master’s and PhD students through the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
Contact: For more information contact Jay Shaw at jay.shaw@utoronto.ca.