Elham Dolatabadi Editor

Christo El Morr, PhD, is Professor of Health Informatics and Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at York University, Toronto. His Equity Informatics research spans equity AI, patient-centered virtual care, mental health, global health promotion, and disability rights monitoring. He is also a theologian, poet and a novelist.

Rachel da Silveira Gorman, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies at York University. Gorman’s current projects focus on co-design and community-based AI applications; biochemical and cellular mechanisms of health inequity; social movement learning in the context of AI and data justice; and metabolizing collective fear through poetry.

Elham Dolatabadi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Tier-2 Connected Minds York Research Chair in Safe AI for Health Equity at York University, and a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute. Her contributions to date have advanced the design of AI systems that collaborate with humans in high-stakes health decision-making through agentic designs, multimodal representations, reasoning, orchestration mechanisms, and novel evaluation frameworks.

Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering and a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute. She leads the ResponsibleAI Lab, focusing on AI safety, bias, and interpretability, using generative and foundation models to promote equitable, culturally aware AI across health and societal domains.