SHORT CV
Current Affiliations
June 2024 – Present, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Milan, Italy
September 2024 – Present, Associate Fellow, Institute for Technoscience and Society at York University, Canada
Education
2020 – 2025, Doctor of Philosophy, Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada (Program: Health Systems Research, Emphasis: Health Informatics)
2018 – 2020, Master of Science (MSc), Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada (Program: Health Systems Research, Emphasis: Health Policy)
2010, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Select Fellowships & Specialized Training
2022 – 2023, AI for Public Health Doctoral Scholar, AI for Public Health Research Training Platform (funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research), Toronto, Canada
2021 – 2022, Benita M. Warmbold Fellow in Health System Innovation, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Canada
2021 – 2022, Ethics of AI Graduate Research Fellow, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Canada
2019, Scholar in AI Ethics and Health, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Donia, J., Marelli, L. (2025). Anticipating ethical and social dimensions of the European Health Data Space: A rapid systematic review. Health Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105443
Donia, J., Gibson, J., Shaw, J. (2025). Making data markets: Assetization, valuation, and proxy work in a digital health start-up. Social Studies of Science. doi.org/10.1177/03063127251353027
Donia, J, Oyefeso, L., Embuldeniya, G., Whyne, C., Burns, D., Boyer, P., Razmjou, H., Shaw, J. Lifecycles, pipelines, and value chains: toward a focus on events in responsible artificial intelligence for health. AI and Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00594-4
Boyer, P., Donia, J., Whyne, C., Burns, D., & Shaw, J. (2022). Regulatory Regimes and Procedural Values for Health-Related Motion Data in the United States and Canada. Health Policy and Technology, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2022.100648
Donia, J., & Shaw, J. (2021). Ethics and values in design: a structured review and theoretical critique. Science and Engineering Ethics, 27(5), 57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00329-2
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: an agenda for critical research and practice. Big Data & Society, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211065248
Shaw, J., Donia, J. (2021). The sociotechnical ethics of digital health: a critique and extension of current approaches in bioethics. Frontiers in Digital Health, 3, 127. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.725088
Book Chapters
Donia, J. (2025). Algorithmic accountability. Understanding Accountability: Power, Politics and Particularities (Ed. Matthew Flinders). Routledge. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003457961-10
Donia, J, Shaw, J. (2025). Norms of co-design for digital health innovation. De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Health & Society (Ed. Benjamin Marent). Walter De Gruyter Press. https://www.isbn.de/978-3-11-124785-4
Published Abstracts
Donia, J. (2022). Normative logics of algorithmic accountability. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). Seoul, South Korea. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533123.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: myths and misconceptions. Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 77. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461702.3462537
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2019). Design ethics and AI for health: a typology of approaches. Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Congress on Technology, Science and Society. Madrid, Spain.
Select Presentations
Donia, J, Zaim, R., Gibson, J., Shaw, J. (2024). Making data markets: the value of assetization and the assetization of values in a digital health start-up. Presented at the 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Donia, J., Webster, F., Gibson, J., Shaw, J. (2023). Institutional ethnography and data justice: concepts, tensions, and practical applications. 2023 Data Justice Conference. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Donia, J. (2022). Normative logics of algorithmic accountability. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). Seoul, South Korea.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Ethics and values in design: a structured review and theoretical critique. Annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). Virtual.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: myths and misconceptions. Annual meeting of AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES). Virtual.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2021). Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: myths and misconceptions. Annual meeting of the Canadian Bioethics Society. Virtual.
Donia, J., Shaw, J. (2019). Design ethics and AI for health: a typology of approaches. Annual International Congress on Technology, Science and Society. Madrid, Spain.
Policy Consultation & Knowledge Translation
Invited Contributor, 2025, First Meeting of the European Health Data Space Forum, EHDS Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Invited Contributor, 2024, Workshop on Ethics of Public Health Research using Artificial Intelligence. Public Health Ontario, Toronto and Online.
Invited Contributor, 2024, NeuroCOV Workshop, The European Health Data Space: Forecasting Technoscientific, Ethical and Social Challenges in Implementation. Berlin, Germany & Online.
Invited Contributor, 2024, Ontario Medical Association Workshop, AI Scribe Session on Legal and Regulatory Issues. Toronto, Canada.
Invited Contributor, 2024, The Promise and Perils of the Digital Transformation of Cardiology in a Climate Constrained World: A Workshop on Principles and Priorities for Environmentally Sustainable Digital Health. Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care (CCCHSC), University of Toronto, Canada.
Invited Member, 2024, Working Group on Trust in Human-ML Interactions, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Toronto, Canada
Invited Contributor, 2022, The Social Life of Algorithmic Harms, Data & Society Institute, New York, NY
Invited Contributor, 2021, Design for Values in Artificial Intelligence for Health, World Health Organization (WHO) and Delft University
Invited Contributor, 2021, Summer Institute on AI for Public Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Co-Presenter, 2021, Service Design for Community-based Health Innovation, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michaels Hospital. Toronto, Canada
Membership
2025 – Present, Founding Member, European Health Data Space Forum
2024 – Present, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
2021 – Present, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
2020 – Present, Design Justice Network, International