Aug 23, 2023, noon CDT
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In this webinar, second of the two-part series, we will hear about two more projects that are improving environmental public health through mobile app development.
Nadia Pack, with the ChicAgo Center for Health and EnvironmenT (CACHET), and Jill Johnston, Ph.D., with the University of Southern California (USC), will talk about their experience with the development and validation of a user-friendly mobile app, EnviroReportTM. The app is used by community members to report in real-time, specific GPS-tagged places of environmental incidences documented with descriptors, photos, and air monitor uploads. Data is sent to CACHET servers for analysis and report-backs to communities. Daily reports are uploaded to Chicago 311 for response and intervention, and collated reports are provided to the Chicago Department of Public Health for city-wide environmental monitoring.
Jennifer Carrera, Ph.D., with Michigan State University (MSU), will talk about her experience working with a team of six Flint, Michigan, residents to develop a mobile application to advance community knowledge collection, development, and goal sharing. Carrera worked with a team of Flint residents to determine:
- Ethical considerations in the storing and sharing of that information.
- How best to collect desired data.
- What information was meaningful to the community.
- What the data means and its implications for individuals, households, and the community.
The final version of the app allowed participants to enter data, save data locally to the device, send data to Google Sheets, record location information, and save a place marker on a map. Ultimately, the process was not about producing an app with a life of its own but organizing the community through an app development process to consider knowledge production as a community.
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