Our Digital Home
Welcome to the Black Health Heritage Data (BHHD) lab in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University! We research digital health tools and engage health information technology policy to advance health equity for Black communities in Providence and Pawtucket. Our work is rooted in the adinkra symbol and the Lab’s logo, the Abe Dua, which we use to define health as wealth, resourcefulness, and self-sufficiency.
The BHHD lab uses theoretical and practical frameworks in Africana/Black Studies, the black digital humanities, critical data studies, data science, health informatics, and the humanities, among other fields to create approaches that seek to mitigate data-driven harm done by algorithmic bias in digital health care and health informatics. Equally important, the BHHD lab team draws on Black history and contemporary Black lived experiences to support Black community-lead solutions to health inequity in Providence and Pawtucket.
The BHHD Lab is funded by the Mellon Foundation and is a part of the Black Beyond Data project at Johns Hopkins University.
Our Digital Home
Welcome to the Black Health Heritage Data (BHHD) lab in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University! We research digital health tools and engage health information technology policy to advance health equity for Black communities in Providence and Pawtucket. Our work is rooted in the adinkra symbol and the Lab’s logo, the Abe Dua, which we use to define health as wealth, resourcefulness, and self-sufficiency.
The BHHD lab uses theoretical and practical frameworks in Africana/Black Studies, the black digital humanities, critical data studies, data science, health informatics, and the humanities, among other fields to create approaches that seek to mitigate data-driven harm done by algorithmic bias in digital health care and health informatics. Equally important, the BHHD lab team draws on Black history and contemporary Black lived experiences to support Black community-lead solutions to health inequity in Providence and Pawtucket.
The BHHD Lab is funded by the Mellon Foundation and is a part of the Black Beyond Data project at Johns Hopkins University.
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The BHHD Lab rejects the idea that Big Data is the primary way to create health equity. Instead we draw on a Black health heritage of health care professionals, public health workers, and Black communities that use hyperlocal community engagement and data collection to provide care.
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Health Equity
At the BHHD Lab we participate in and contribute to Black communities’ ongoing struggle to achieve health equity, the fair and just opportunity to attain one’s highest level of health and wellness. Due to the structural and lived racism Black communities and other people of color who receive health care in the United States, are much more likely to experience health inequity.
Working Partnerships
We develop working relationships with community organizations, researchers, academics, and health care professionals. The data obtained by the BHHD Lab is selectively shared with our partners to engender and strengthen a collective and collaborative approach to achieving health equity.
Health Equity
At the BHHD Lab we participate in and contribute to Black communities’ ongoing struggle to achieve health equity, the fair and just opportunity to attain one’s highest level of health and wellness. Due to the structural and lived racism Black communities and other people of color who receive health care in the United States, are much more likely to experience health inequity.
Working Partnerships
We develop working relationships with community organizations, researchers, academics, and health care professionals. The data obtained by the BHHD Lab is selectively shared with our partners to engender and strengthen a collective and collaborative approach to achieving health equity.
ongoing Projects
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Black Health Informatics
Community Digital Health
COVID Black