About this Graphic
This is a hand-illustrated graphic recording, created live during a keynote presentation at the Maternal Health Equity Workshop: From Story to Data to Action, May 18, 2023, which was convened by the Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Health Justice. Graphic recordings were created by Drawing Change. The title, moderator and panelists are drawn on a shape that’s like a cartoon “pow” explosion, which has a lot of energy; there are three fists outlined held up in a solidarity/action gesture, on top of an arrow that has different colored dots representing varied data
From Data to Action: What Public Health, Hospitals, and Health Systems Can Do (Panel Discussion)
With Simon Linwood, Riverside Health and University of California, Riverside School of Medicine; Janette Robinson Flint, Black Women for Wellness; Justin Schonfeld, Public Health Agency of Canada; and Carlos Siordia, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Moderated by Karey M Sutton, Medstar Health Research Institute.
What resonated with you? What challenges are you thinking about?
Two soft figures are embracing, with a multicolored swirl background to emphasize the hugging emotions. The text reads, “maternal health work is high touch rather than high tech; tech comes in when there are problems.”
Bulleted list with pink hearts:
- I’m excited and energized by this work! (with pops of color, energy lines, and swirls around this quote)
- Touched by Bianca Dickerson-Williams’ story - current realities
- Dr Ruha Benjamin’s cautionary message
Trust
Illustration of a large yellow warning exclamation. The text says, Issues of TRUST: historical injustices, research, COVID experience.
Hope
Illustrated with the letter O as a sun. Three yellow circles read:
- Sustainable and scalable
- Less health care worker burnout (drawing of small figure with head hanging down)
- Better care outcomes
Technology
Technology is useful, but CONTEXT IS KEY: Illustration of a computer with data going in and out, with a caption that says “bias in, bias out.” It is connected with an arrow to a computer and microchip illustration, which blends into a city scene with a park and people walking, and also blends into four multiracial faces looking at each other and smiling. The text says, “Technology is useful but context is key — listen to birthing people!”
Beneath the four birthing people, there is a mysterious dark cloud of data that has A on the left leading to answer B to the right of it, with a caption that reads, “What are the consequences of NLP decisions?
Education about technology: Two figures are looking at data and models, talking in overlapping speech bubbles.
Data
Illustrated with confetti-like squares, floating in random order. Three key questions next to it are: What is the quality? What are the biases? How reliable are the algorithms? The following points are made:
- Language is always changing
- Many degrees of separation between data and provider
Ethics
The illustrated word “Ethics” is framed between two open, brown-skinned hands. Main points are in circles above the hands:
- In a Venn diagram: Law enforcement, patient data, provider notes/EHR/EMR
- Just because we can find out about a health issue, doesn’t mean we should
- How to safely de-identify data?
A bold purple swoop leading directly from the word “Ethics” reads, “Should be an ongoing process.”