Overview
Fatima G. Fairfax is a PhD candidate in sociology at Duke University. Her research focuses on the impact of healthcare technologies on existing health(care) quality and disparities in the U.S. Her work sits at the intersection of medical sociology; science, knowledge, and technology; race, and inequality studies. Her dissertation work explores how technologies used at three different levels (patients, providers, and hospital systems) may impact healthcare outcomes for patients and effects disparities in care. In her other active projects, she explores how future tech developers make sense of bias in computing and technological projects, and how we understand and measure racial disparities in health with more nuanced definitions of racial identity. Her work is supported by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship.
Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked for New Profit, a venture philanthropy firm, as a manager on the Measurement and Evaluation team. She graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from Harvard University in 2018.