Marcy Antonio, PhD, MPH, BSc

Dr. Marcy Antonio is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Marcy’s research in health informatics and public health is informed through her sixteen years of working in the community, where she provided assistive technologies for people living with a disability. Throughout her career she has applied an interdisciplinary, multisectoral lens in developing strategies that can address the complexity of structural inequities. She has built collaborations across policy, research and the community so that findings can be translated back to populations who continue to be hidden and experience unjust outcomes. Marcy has over twenty peer-reviewed journal publications two have been recognized by the International Journal of Medical Informatics’ annual review. In 2020, her paper on ‘Is patient portal research attuned to health equity: a scoping review’ was awarded one of the top three articles of the year in the Special Section on Ethics in Health Informatics. In 2022, her paper on ‘Toward an inclusive digital health system for sexual and gender minorities in Canada’ received notable mention for addressing bias, equity, and literacy in the Special Section on Inclusive Digital Health. The paper she is presenting on today is based on her doctoral dissertation research that explored the role digital technologies play in supporting illness and social connectedness for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.