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Icon representing "health"Information School researchers come from across disciplines to research and design information policies, technologies, and processes that improve people’s health and environmental resilience, leading to a healthier and safer society. Our research impacts everyday people, their health-care providers, libraries, and technology. Research on health and well-being informs society in many ways. We work to eliminate systemic racism and bias in the delivery of these health services and to improve equity among marginalized groups including Native and Indigenous communities, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and those experiencing mental illness. Health and well-being research at the iSchool is grounded in the principles defined by the University of Washington Population Health Initiative, which is driven by our public service mission.

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  • Hala Annabi
  • Anind Dey
  • Clarita Lefthand-Begay
  • Jessica Luke
  • Lucy Lu Wang
  • Jacob Wobbrock
  • Yiwei Xu

Current Projects and Grants

Using Passive Sensing to Assess the Impact of Real-Time Discrimination against Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Engineering 

Researcher: Anind Dey
Funding: National Science Foundation
Dates: 2020-2023

Autism-Ready Libraries: Early Literacy Services for Autistic Children and Their Families

PIs: Hala Annabi, Michelle Martin, Milly-Romeijn-Stout
Funding: Institute of Museum and Library Services, $476,568
Dates: 2020-2022

An Integrative Measurement of Common Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms Using Passive Sensing

PI: Anind Dey
Funding: U.S. Department of Defense; Carnegie Mellon University; $32,751
Dates: 2020-2022

Trauma in the Library: Symptoms of PTSD Among Staff and Methods for Ensuring Trauma-Informed Care 

PI: Karen Fisher
Funding: Institute of Museum and Library Services; $498,081
Dates: 2020-2022

CHS: Small: Computational Modeling of Human Rhythms to Improve Health and Quality of Life 

Researcher: Anind Dey
Funding: National Science Foundation
Dates: 2020-2021

Designing a Visual Decision Aid for Shared Decision-Making after Renal Biopsy 

PIs: Ari Pollack, Jaime Snyder
Funding: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease; $159,042
Dates: 2020-2021

Exploring Physically Distant Technology Access and Assistance to Support Workers in a New Economy 

PIs: Chris Jowaisas, Stacey Wedlake
Funding: UW Population Health Initiative; $18,699
Dates: 2020

Analysis to Translation: Accelerating and Tailoring Responses to Student Mental Health 

Researcher: Anind Dey
Funding: UW Population Health Initiative
Dates: 2020

UnBIASED: Understanding Biased Patient-Provider Interaction and Supporting Enhanced Discourse 

Researcher: Wanda Pratt
Funding: National Library of Medicine
Dates: 2019-2024

CAREER: Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations

PI: Jaime Snyder
Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF), $123,183
Dates: 2019-2024

A Mobile Sensing System to Monitor Symptoms During Chemotherapy 

Researcher: Anind Dey
Funding: National Institutes of Health; University of Pittsburgh; $37,180
Dates: 2019-2021

mHealth in West Africa: Developing an Evidence-Based Psychosocial Intervention Toolkit 

PI: Jaime Snyder
Funding: UW ALACRITY Center; UW iSchool Strategic Research Fund
Dates: 2019-2020

Patients as Safeguards: Understanding the Information Needs of Hospitalized Patients

PI: Wanda Pratt
Funding: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), $2,280,239
Dates: 2014-2019

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Mason Koh, Kai Andreic, Asad Jaffery, Joshua Williams and Vaibava Venkatesan

Students develop tool to track kudos among co-workers

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
In today’s fast-paced work environment, managers often look for tools to make their jobs easier. For someone managing a large team, wouldn’t it be nice to have a tool that regularly provides summarized feedback about each employee?...
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Students (from left) Harman Zhang, Sara Duan, Justin Dong, Noa Avitan and David Pham

Informatics team helps music streamer earn money for artists

Thursday, May 22, 2025
For a music creator, getting paid by listeners around the world should be as simple as a fan clicking “subscribe.” But for many artists in less developed countries, existing streaming platforms make that difficult or out of reach.An...
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Putting Values into Action: The Balance Between Holding and Shaping Beliefs Virtual Panel

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