* LECTURE CANCELLED due to weather forecast
SPEAKER: Lisa Marks, Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech
Wearable Innovations for Health Equity Workshop. Pictured clockwise: W. Hong Yeo, director of the Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center at Georgia Tech; Wei Gao, professor at CalTech; Michael Best, executive director of IPaT; Tabia Henry Akintobi, professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine; poster sessions; and lightning talks.
The inaugural Wearable Innovations for Health Equity Workshop held on September 10, 2024 at Georgia Tech delivered a variety of new knowledge, insight, and exceptional networking opportunities.
The workshop was jointly sponsored by Georgia Tech’s Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center, the Institute for People and Technology, the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, and the Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research. The aim of the event was to raise awareness and discuss the transformative impact of wearable technologies in promoting wellness and increasing equitable health outcomes.
Attendees at the event included health practitioners, researchers, engineers, and patients who shared experiences using some of the latest wearable health devices. Workshop participants came from Georgia Tech, Emory University, Georgia State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and the University of Georgia.
Keynote speaker Wei Gao, a professor of medical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, shared some of his latest wearable health technologies combining his chemical engineering background with the latest biochemical sensor technologies being developed in his lab at CalTech.
The second keynote speaker, Tabia Henry Akintobi, professor and chair of community health and preventive medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine, delivered a detailed overview of her prevention research center program, community health statistics, and touched on health outcomes for different racial and ethnic groups including those with disabilities. She stressed the path forward for wearable health devices included expansion of access to data, approaching technology access through a community-driven social marketing plan, and better representativeness of diverse populations in wearable innovations research.
Poster sessions, panel discussions, and researcher lightning talks were held between the keynote speaker presentations with the event concluding with a reception and networking session at the end of the day.
Agenda and details for the event (archived).
Walter Rich
Georgia Tech is proud to partner with the Atlanta Mayor’s Office to host Avant South on Monday, October 7, 2024. This year's event features several tracks showcasing the latest innovations in sports, media, arts, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.
Meet faculty Dr. Alberto Fuentes and Dr. Bruce Stiftel and Ms. Anna Traykova, program coordinator, to learn more about the Global Development program and have your questions answered.
Registration Link
We are so excited to announce that RoboJackets will be celebrating our 25th Anniversary this fall. To commemorate 25 years, we will be hosting an event on September 15th at Georgia Tech’s Exhibition Hall. This event will have tournaments from BattleBots and RoboWrestling, along with demos from RoboNav, RoboRacing, and RoboCup.
Please join the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies for a guest lecture with the Foreign Minister of Latvia, Baiba Braže, on challenges the West must address in the face of Russian military aggression. Minister Braže has previously served as the NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy and as the Ambassador of Latvia to the United Kingdom.
Co-sponsored by the Atlanta Council on International Relations.
Speaker: Sarah Fox, Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human Computer Interaction Institute
Speaker: Cheng Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Information Science and Computer Science
Cornell University
President Ángel Cabrera has convened a search committee, chaired by College of Sciences Dean Susan Lozier, charged with selecting Georgia Tech’s next executive vice president for research (EVPR). To assist with the process, the Institute has retained the services of executive search firm WittKieffer.
“I thank all the members of the search committee and committee chair Dean Lozier, for conducting a thorough search to identify our next executive vice president for research,” said President Cabrera. “As one of the nation’s foremost academic research institutions, Georgia Tech is looking for a leader who can sustain the growth of our research enterprise, build the infrastructure necessary to support it, and deliver on our mission to advance technology and improve the human condition.”
WittKieffer will host several town halls to gather input from the Georgia Tech community on the preferred qualifications of the next EVPR.
Community Engagement Schedule
Georgia Tech Staff Town Hall
Tuesday, September 10 at 10:00 a.m.
Hybrid: Marcus Nanotechnology Building, 345 Ferst Drive, Room 1116 / Register for virtual attendance)
GTRI Town Hall
Tuesday, September 10 at 12:00 p.m.
Virtual only (Details forthcoming for GTRI faculty and staff)
Georgia Tech Faculty Town Hall
Tuesday, September 10 at 2:00 p.m.
Hybrid: Howey Physics L3 Classroom / (Register for virtual attendance)
Open Georgia Tech and GTRI Town Hall
Wednesday, September 11 at 11:00 a.m.
Virtual only (Register online)
Additional Information
Both internal and external candidates are invited to apply. For more details, including the position description and the application process, a list of the search committee members, and the key dates, visit the EVPR search webpage.
Regents’ Professor Tim Lieuwen has been appointed interim EVPR and will serve until the new EVPR is in place.
Shelley Wunder-Smith
Director of Research Communications
shelley.wunder-smith@research.gatech.edu