Rebecca Babcock is the Research Assistant for two projects at the Dahdaleh Institute: Improving Humanitarian Needs Assessments through Natural Language Processing and An Interdisciplinary Academic-Practitioner Approach to Digital Contact Tracing During COVID19: Risk-Benefit Analysis Using Complex Systems Methodology, a collaborative project between the Dahdeleh Institute and the Disaster and Emergency Management Program at York University. In 2019 - 2020, Rebecca acted as the Research Assistant for Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative, also at the Dahdaleh Institute.
Rebecca is passionate about research regarding digital ethics, global health, humanitarianism, and planetary health. She is working to build a research plan that uniquely intersects these fields of study and apply to the 2021 PhD Program at York University's Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.
Prior to joining the institute, Rebecca received a Master of Bioethics and Health Law from the University of Otago in New Zealand and completed her BA in English Literature and Theatre at McGill University.
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism, Global Health Foresighting, Planetary Health |
Status | Alum |
Related Work |
Beyond contact tracing: The opportunities and challenges of digital responses to COVID-19 | Library, Research
Addressing structural racism and violence within global health | Library, Research Anishinaabe Youth Guardians, Land-based Learning, and the Practice of Living Well with the World | Project, Research Improving Humanitarian Needs Assessments through Natural Language Processing | Project, Research Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative | Project, Research Digital Global Health and Humanitarianism Lab | Project, Research |
Updates |
Why is Uptake of Digital Contact Tracings Apps Low? The Digital Global Health and Humanitarianism Lab has Evidence-based Answers and Recommendations | March 8, 2021
Trainee Program: 2019-2020 Year In Review | July 7, 2020 Eighteen Established and Emerging Scholars Joined Dahdaleh Institute in Six Months | January 31, 2020 |
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