In a recent study, researchers determined that the field of studying fairness and bias in healthcare-related artificial intelligence (AI) is largely dominated by white and male researchers.
Credits: Courtesy of MLK Visiting Professors
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As Covid-19 vaccinations continue to be distributed, equity is vital to the process. Vaccination availability for individuals from minority groups is an important issue partly because
of longstanding inequitable access to quality care, and partly because of public sentiment, reflected in
polls showing that Black Americans’
mistrust of health care and medical research may influence their feelings about getting vaccinated
. Charles Senteio, a
health informatics scholar focused on equity
and one of MIT’s 2020-21 MLK Visiting Professors, has been conducting an ongoing study of this issue, along with David Rand, the Erwin H. Schell professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Senteio, Rand,