IND-03 — Disability-inclusive patient-centred evidence, human factors & trustworthy health tech

The Accessibility Institute at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) advances accessibility standards, inclusive design, and applied research to support trustworthy adoption of technologies in real-world services. We seek an IND-03 consortium as WP leader/co-leader or partner.

What we offer:

• Disability-inclusive patient-centred evidence: Ensuring technologies are evaluated across diverse functional profiles, not just “average users.”

• Accessibility-by-design and human factors: Aligned with real workflows and assistive technologies.

• Responsible AI and bias/discrimination mitigation: For AI-enabled health technologies (design-time and deployment-time), including transparency and auditability considerations.

• Functioning and participation as patient-centred evidence: Integrating disability-inclusive functioning/participation measures into evaluation of health technologies (including AI-enabled tools), with accessible workflows and bias/discrimination safeguards.

• Participatory evaluation: Communiuty-engaged research with lived experience experts and under-served populations.

• Practical translation outputs: Guidance usable by developers, implementers, and policy/regulatory stakeholders.

What we are looking for:

• Consortia working on patient-centred health technologies (including digital and AI-enabled tools) and seeking robust equity, inclusion, accessibility, governance, and evidence components.

Keywords: patient-centred evidence, regulatory science, accessibility, usability, human factors, disability inclusion, functioning, participation, trustworthy AI, bias/discrimination.