A New Model for Youth-Driven Community Change: Exploratory Testing of Artificial Intelligence–Supported Citizen Science

Dr. Eduardo De La Vega, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center of Population Sciences for Health Empowerment, has been published in JMIR AI for his article titled A New Model for Youth-Driven Community Change: Exploratory Testing of Artificial Intelligence-Supported Citizen Science. Additional authors include Center Co-Director Eugenia Millender along with Sofia Portillo, Lina Gomez-Garcia, Ann Banchoff, Victoria Bermudez, Diana Chavez, Tate Sgaraglino, Olga Sarmiento, and Abby King. The full article is available here. 

Dr. De La Vega is a civil and industrial engineer and developmental scientist by training. His research focuses on developing, testing, and scaling community-engaged interventions that improve health, developmental, and environmental outcomes among youth and families exposed to multiple social and environmental vulnerabilities. Dr. De La Vega's recent work centers on youth-led citizen science initiatives that combine mobile data collection, qualitative and quantitative methods, and AI-supported facilitation to help communities identify health-relevant environmental and social barriers and engage decision-makers.