Antwi akom biography

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    Challenging the Norm: Redefining Rigor in Health Research

    Antwi Akom Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the University of California, San Francisco, and SFSU SOUL Lab and Founder & CEO of DOPE Labs, which stands for Digital Organizing Power Building & Engagement Labs. DOPE Labs is one of the leading community-based research organizations in the world where Equity meets Data, Digital, and Design transformation with BIPOC, Rural, and disability/accessibility populations. Dr. Akom’s work examines the relationship between Community Informatics, Big Data, Asset Based Community Design (ABCD), Decolonizing Design, AI, Race, Power, Public Health, and Social Justice. As a Transdisciplinary Professor of African American Studies, Community-Powered Design, AI, Data Science, and Health Innovation Dr. Akom writes, teaches, and speaks widely about Democratizing Data and Design, Community-Centric Design, Algorithmic Justice, Equitable AI, and prototyping and te

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    Antwi Akom

    Dr. Akom is a senior nonresident fellow with the Center for Community Uplift. His research focuses on the intersection between AI, race, technology, data, design, and health innovation, and falls into three thematic areas:  

    1. Real-time data, community-powered data, and asset-based community design 
    2. Data equity, data bias, data power, data modernization, and data transformation
    3. AI, big data, and climate justice  

    As a globally recognized thought-leader in co-designing local data ecosystems to improve community health; connecting data across local communities, government, and health sectors; and democratizing data and design to lift the voices, values, priorities, and needs of communities from the margins to the epicenter, Dr. Akom’s research and scholarship includes: 1) utilizing real-time community-driven, community-powered data to modernize and transform our public health data ecosystems; 2) advancing the building and ownership of AI solutions tailored to loc

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    Antwi Akom, Ph.D.

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    Founding Director of UCSF/SFSU’s Social nyhet and Urban Opportunity Lab (SOUL) Faculty Affiliate UCSF’s Center for Vulnerable Populations in the Medical School Co-Founder Streetwyze

    Email: akom@sfsu.edu

    Location: Science 395

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    Fri: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

    Biography:

    Dr. Antwi Akom is the Director of the Social Innovation and Urban Opportunity Lab—a joint research lab between UCSF and SFSU (SOULLAB.co). His research lies at the intersection of science, technology, spatial epidemiology, community development, health communications, medical sociology, ethnic studies, African American studies, culturally responsive human centered design, Big uppgifter, and public health. Dr. Akom fryst vatten also a faculty affiliate with UCSF’s Center for Vulnerable Populations (CVP) at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center where he focuses on researching, developing, and deploying new health information com