Megan Threats, PhD, MSLIS

Dr. Megan Threats, PhD, MSLIS is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is also Visiting Faculty at the Yale School of Public Health and an affiliate at the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies and the Digital Studies Institute.

As a health informaticist and community-based researcher, she uses anti-racist praxis and methods to investigate the existence and elucidate the magnitude of determinants of health and information inequities. The aims of Dr. Threats' research program are to empower marginalized communities to engage in the design and implementation of informatics interventions and consumer health technologies that aim to combat intersecting, multi-level forms of discrimination, including but not limited to, racism and sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. The goal of her research is to translate her findings into the development of policies, programs, and practices that reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes among marginalized communities.