Our work brings the voices and lived experiences of patients into healthcare research. As emerging digital health technologies such as AI gain public attention for the speculative futures they may enable or the potential harms they may cause, we ask, how might the development and impact of these tools end up differently if they are approached through a humanistic lens? We understand that ethics must be grounded in history and culture and integrated at the beginning, not the end, of the health technology research and development process. We use our grounding in the humanities to collaborate with clinicians and address complex global challenges that cannot be solved by science or technology alone. We achieve our translational aim of moving from research to impact by bringing humanists, artists, and social scientists together with engineers and clinicians who are directly involved in patient care.

The Medical Humanities Research Institute leverages our robust local and global networks to transform the ways that researchers and clinicians around the world enact the humanity of healthcare. Reach out to learn more.