Author

Christine Vogeli

Director of Evaluation and Research, Partners Healthcare Center for Population Health; Senior Scientist, Mongan Institute Health Policy Center at Mass General Research Institute; and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

cvogeli@partners.org

Articles

Science

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations

Introduction Obermeyer et al. note both the growing attention to potential racial and gender biases within algorithms and the difficulty of obtaining access to real world algorithms – including the raw data used to design and train them – in order to understand how and why bias could appear in them. This study is important…

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