At the Little Device Lab at MIT, Jose Gomez-Marquez and his colleagues focus on bringing the ingenuity of the maker movement to the world of health and healthcare. In this talk from QSPH15, Jose uses specific examples from a new course at MIT to explain the idea of “transparent boxes” — systems and technologies that allow individuals to be creative in their exploration of themselves through data.
Dawn Nafus, is an anthropologist at Intel Labs who has written with great clarity about the Quantified Self movement. In this talk from QSPH15, Dawn explores the concept of data access and literacy in terms of who gets to ask the questions that direct research.
Stephen Downs, Chief Technology and Information Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, looks forward to the day when healthy choices are easy choices. That day may not be tomorrow, but identifying the early adopters, innovative thinkers, and technological disruptors can move us closer to that healthier world. In this talk from QSPH15, Stephen explains why the foundation decided to support the Quantified Self movement.
Dr. Kevin Patrick is the director of the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems at Calit2. At the 2015 Quantified Self Public Health Symposium, Kevin offered novel ways to think about the social utility of data.
Renowned physicist Larry Smarr is the founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), who helped bring the power of computing to scientific research. In this talk from QSPH15, Larry reflects on consideration for scaling the QS movement and how the values encoded in tools created during the birth of new fields can influence future developments that affect hundreds of millions of people.
Many participants in Quantified Self meetings around the world are involved improving public health as researchers, policymakers, clinicians, and community leaders. Once a year, we convene a Quantified Self Public Health Symposium to explore how we can better support new discoveries about ourselves and our communities.
