Elizabeth Stowell

PhD Student

Elizabeth Stowell

Education

  • BA in Health and Society, Wellesley College

Biography

Elizabeth Stowell is a PhD student in the Personal Health Informatics program at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and Bouvé College of Health Sciences and is advised by Professor Andrea Parker. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College in health and society. Much of the coursework in this major was in the Women's and Gender Studies Department and approached public health issues through an intersectional feminist lens.

Currently, Elizabeth is a member of the Wellness Technology Laboratory. Elizabeth’s research focus centers on expanding access to and improving the quality of healthcare in the United States as well as globally. Elizabeth has a particular interest in addressing health disparities in sexual and reproductive health and in mental health.

Recent Publications

  • Community-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents

    Citation: T.K. O’Leary, E. Stowell, E. Kimani, D. Parmar, S. Olafsson, J. Hoffman, A.G. Parker, M.K. Paasche-Orlow, T.W. Bickmore. “Community-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents.” IVA ’20: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2020. DOI: 10.1145/3383652.3423875