Mourning the loss of Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India. Her grassroots organizing of poor, self-employed women impacted the lives of millions. It has been such an honor to collaborate with SEWA. m.economictimes.com/magazines/pana…

Join the HCTG 10/12 at 530 at #HFES2022 for HCTG Bingo, Lightening talks from student paper awardees, and ice cream! Ashley Hughes Rupa Sheth Valdez Rich Holden Farzan Sasangohar hjbarton Mike Rayo Dr. Abigail Wooldridge Ken Catchpole Raj Ratwani, PhD Rollin J (Terry) Fairbanks Linsey Steege, PhD Changwon Son

The struggle for disability rights is worldwide. From a lack of accommodations to destroyed wheelchairs, air travel needs to be accessible to and inclusive of people with disabilities. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/wheelcha…

Thrilled to be a part of this work focused on developing home personas grounded in the experiences of families of children with medical complexity.

Excited to have our paper on why it is essential to work with the disability community and how to do so published yesterday in JAMIA. #healthequity #DisabilityTwitter #humanfactors #informatics track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=B0…

Nobody told me that #breastcancer is a full time job!

#patientjourney #patientvoice #patientwork #patientergonomics #cancercare #autoethnography

My new opinion piece in BMJ Patient Editor
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Many thanks to AHRQ for the years of support and for profiling this work! UVA Health UVA Engineering

Bodily autonomy is a core principle of the disability rights movement. AAPD opposes efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade, and any other legislative and judicial restrictions on abortion rights. #DisabledAndProChoice

Read our full statement:
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Many thanks to Anne Bromley and UVA Today for this spotlight! UVA Health AAPD HF/E Society

Our #JAMIA paper about online microaggressions that South Korean women experience appears in a special Women in Medicine collection.

“Broadband internet access should be a public utility.” - Thanks Keren Landman for covering this important issue and highlighting our work. Weill Cornell Medicine Population Health Sciences Jessica S Ancker
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NASEM Health National Academies Workshop is ON! Love the 1st panel quotes - #telehealth around from 1950’s by Dr. C. Doran, unintended consequences by Rupa Sheth Valdez , need 2 take care of patients all of the time w #telemedicine #telerehabilitation by Judd Hollander American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) CoHSTAR @HPAAPTA National Academies

Great to be a part of this APA panel and to hear all of the pathways to and through a human factors career #HumanFactors #AppliedPsychology

“But it is particularly deadly that we don’t frame COVID-19 as a disability issue….Even linguistically we’re pointed away from it. ‘Pre-existing conditions’ is a way of not saying ‘disability’.”
- Ashley Shew
AAPD #HealthEquity #disabilities nature.com/articles/d4158…

“80% of people with disabilities live in low- and middle-income countries…. In a world preparing for the post-pandemic era, we all need to acknowledge that achieving health and wellbeing for all will only be possible through disability inclusion in health sector priorities.”

This is a stunning report. 1.2 million more people have joined the disability community in the last year due to #COVID19 . COVID is a mass-disabling event, but national policies don't reflect this reality. Our government MUST do more to support those affected.

Powerful piece by Liza Papautsky, PhD “Do not discount or minimize our experiences…. We belong in a conversation about discrimination. We belong in a conversation about racism.”

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