Dr. Kadija Ferryman, a Data & Society affiliate, is an anthropologist who studies race, ethics, and policy in health technology. Specifically, her research examines how clinical racial correction/norming, algorithmic risk scoring, and disease prediction in genomics, digital medical records, and artificial intelligence technologies affect racial health inequities. She is core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Ferryman completed her postdoctoral training at the Data & Society, where she led the Fairness in Precision Medicine research study, which examined the potential for bias and discrimination in predictive precision medicine. She earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Yale University, and a PhD in anthropology from the New School for Social Research.
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Data & SocietyNovember 2023 -
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The Cancer LetterAs AI becomes integrated into different facets of our lives, Data & Society Researcher Kadija Ferryman joins Robert A. Winn in considering what this means for the field of health. "How can we bring together the excitement ... Read on The Cancer LetterNovember 2018 -
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PointsIncreasingly, technology's impact on infrastructure is becoming a health concern. In this Points piece, Data & Society Researchers Mikaela Pitcan, Alex Rosenblat, Mary Madden, and Kadija Ferryman tease out why this intersec... Read on PointsSeptember 2018 -
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PointsAfter the Cambridge Analytica scandal, can internet data be used ethically for research? Data & Society Postdoctoral Scholar Kadija Ferryman and Elaine O. Nsoesie, PhD from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation re... Read on PointsApril 2018 -
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Data & SocietyFairness in Precision Medicine is the first report to deeply examine the potential for biased and discriminatory outcomes in the emerging field of precision medicine; "the effort to collect, integrate and analyze multiple sources of data in order to develop individualized insights about health and disease." Read moreFebruary 2018 -
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Data & SocietyThe Precision Medicine National Actor Map is the first visualization of the three major national precision medicine projects--All of Us Research Program, My Research Legacy, Project Baseline--and the network of institutions connected to them as grantees and sub-grantees. The map was developed for the Fairness in Precision Medicine initiative at Data & Society. Read moreFebruary 2018 -
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Data & SocietyWhat is Precision Medicine? is a general audience white paper by Dr. Kadija Ferryman and Mikaela Pitcan that introduces and outlines the emerging field of precision medicine; the effort to collect, integrate and analyze multiple sources of data in order to develop individualized insights about health and disease. Read moreFebruary 2018 -
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PointsAs data becomes more prevalent in the health world, Data & Society Postdoctoral Scholar Kadija Ferryman urges us to consider how we will regulate its collection and usage. "As precision medicine rushes on in the US, how ... Read on PointsFebruary 2018