Understanding Big Health Data Research's Unique Issues - On Tech Ethics

Discusses some of the unique ethical, logistical, and regulatory issues associated with big health data research.

Our guest is Sara Meeder, who is the Director of Human Research Protections at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, where she works on ethics and infrastructure for mobile health research, pain management studies, and AI in healthcare. Previously, she served as the Director of Research Compliance & Ethics for The Human Project at New York University, helping to define the ethical and regulatory processes for big data and emerging technologies studies. Sara specializes in the intersection between research ethics, regulations, infrastructure, and mobile health research.

Additional resources:

• CITI Program’s Big Data and Data Science Research Ethics course: about.citiprogram.org/course/big-data-and-data-science-research-ethics
• CITI Program’s Technology, Ethics, and Regulations course: about.citiprogram.org/course/technology-ethics-and-regulations
• Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research: primr.org
• Digital Medicine Society (DiMe): dimesociety.org