WISH @ AMIA 2025

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare and health promotion, ushering in new opportunities for the more effective diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. And yet, despite this explosion of innovation, the field of health AI has simultaneously not been ambitious enough and caused harm through some of its ambition. In this talk, I will argue that beyond preventing and treating illness, the ambition of health AI research and innovation should be to support human flourishing. I will further argue that doing so is essential for addressing the prevalent health inequities in our society. This talk is a call for a greater ambition for the field of health AI: investigating how AI can help communities to not only survive, but also to thrive, and investigating the threats health AI presents for human flourishing.

Bio: Dr. Andrea Grimes Parker is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Parker holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University. She is the founder and director of the Wellness Technology Lab at Georgia Tech. Her interdisciplinary research spans the domains of human-computer interaction and public health, as she examines how social and interactive computing systems can be designed to address health inequities. Dr. Parker has published widely in the space of digital health equity and received several awards recognizing her research. Her research has been funded through awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Aetna Foundation, Google, and Johnson & Johnson.