Megan Threats, PhD, MSLIS

Dr. Megan Threats, PhD, MSLIS is Visiting Research Faculty in the School of Public Health. She is the Director of the Health Justice Informatics Lab at the University of Michigan School of Information. She studies the health information practices and multilevel determinants of health and information inequities impacting marginalized communities. She uses an approach she calls 'health justice informatics' to work with communities to collaboratively develop and implement informatics interventions and consumer health information and technologies to address the effects of intersecting, multilevel forms of discrimination, including, but not limited to, racism and sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. Her research aims to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes among marginalized communities by using her findings to inform information, public health, and health IT policies and translate her findings into developing programs and practices within health and learning institutions.