Free Virtual Workshop: Simplicity as a Key Determinant of Equitable Digital Health Design

The most sophisticated digital health tool is worthless if the people who need it most cannot use it. Complexity is not a neutral design choice, it is a barrier, and like most barriers in health care, its costs fall heaviest on communities already navigating the greatest constraints.

This workshop, led by digital health researcher and intervention designer Dr. Simone J. Skeen, makes the case for simplicity as a core equity principle not a compromise or an afterthought, but a deliberate, evidence-based commitment to designing tools that work in the real world, for real people, in real conditions. Drawing on her research designing and studying HIV digital health interventions for diverse end users in under-resourced implementation settings, Dr. Skeen will guide participants through the principles, tensions, and practical decisions that shape whether a digital health tool expands access or quietly reproduces the exclusions it was meant to address.

Facilitator:

Simone J. Skeen, PhD, MA, NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Research Associate, Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science, Tulane University