Elizabeth Stowell
PhD Student
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
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Designing and Evaluating mHealth Interventions for Vulnerable Populations: A Systematic Review
Citation: Elizabeth Stowell, Mercedes C. Lyson, Herman Saksono, Reneé C. Wurth, Holly Jimison, Misha Pavel, Andrea G. Parker. 2018. Designing and Evaluating mHealth Interventions for Vulnerable Populations: A Systematic Review. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). ACM. -
Investigating Opportunities for Crowdsourcing in Church-Based Health Interventions: A Participatory Design Study
Citation: E. Stowell, T.K. O’Leary, E. Kimani, M.K. Paasche-Orlow, T.W. Bickmore, A.G. Parker. “Investigating Opportunities for Crowdsourcing in Church-Based Health Interventions: A Participatory Design Study.” ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020. DOI: 10.1145/3313831.3376833 -
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