Gonzalo Bacigalupe (web, twitter) is coming to HealthCamp Boston.
Tell us a little about your day job.
I am a professor and Director of the Family Therapy Program at UMASS Boston, work with doctoral students. I also have a research professor position in the Basque Country with the Ikerbasque Foundation for Science and there I am developing research in the area of e-health, virtual communities, health disparities, and chronic illness. I am planning a health disparities course for undergraduates and a health psychology course for PhD students. Hope to learn new ideas and about resources I could use in class and research projects as well as meet mentors that students could draw from.
What are you passionate about?
What difference does health technology make in the life of the 99% or
in other words, should we have an e-health occupy movement? I am
concerned about the lack of movement towards reducing health
disparities and how stuck we are in the petty conservative ideology
that prevents us from moving towards a more just health system. One of my focus is systems, I am always interested in how context shapes behavior, ideas, etc. therefore, how to change the defaults is more intriguing than how to change health behaviors. Easier to sell reduced portions than ask people to eat reduced portions.
What are you doing to “hack” health care?
Always bringing up the uncomfortable, remind professionals and
researchers that this is about the patients and the families and not
those who are support to aid them. We are all patients and all
deserving a just healthcare.
Why are you attending HealthCamp Boston?
Interested in learning about the notion of HealthCamp and an
unconference, networking and connecting with many virtual friends. I will be presenting at Medicine 2.0.
If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
Is Health 2.0 Inequality 2.0? What are we doing to prevent from
disparities to increase or stay the same with the introduction of HIT?
What kinds of people do you want to meet at HealthCamp?
Everyone! But not interested in trying to convince as much as listen to those who have been able to address some of the questions I have.
See you soon!
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