Joseph Donia, PhD
Short CV
Current Affiliations
2026 – Present, Postdoctoral Affiliate
Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society
University of Toronto, Canada
2024 – Present, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Milan, Italy
2024 – Present, Associate Fellow
Institute for Technoscience and Society
York University, Canada
Education
2020 – 2025, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
University of Toronto, Canada
2018 – 2020, Master of Science (MSc)
Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
University of Toronto, Canada
2010, Bachelor of Arts - Hons (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
Select First-Author Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Donia, J., Hoeyer, K., Reintjes, T., Marelli, L. (2026). Selective visibility in datafied states: Examining presence and absence in the European Health Data Space. Accepted to Social Science and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119747
Donia, J., McGrail, K., & Marelli, L. (2026). Can Canada learn from the European Health Data Space? Canadian Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-026-01245-3
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. (2025). Algorithmic accountabilities and health systems: A review and sociomaterial approach. Big Data & Society. doi.org/10.1177/20539517251334099
Donia, J, Oyefeso, L., Embuldeniya, G., Whyne, C., Burns, D., Boyer, P., Razmjou, H., Shaw, J. (2025). 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
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
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
Select 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
Select Discussion Papers & Reports
Marelli, L., Muda, B., Donia, J., & Martani, A. (2026). Governing the European Health Data Space: Ethical and Political Perspectives on the TEHDAS2 Second Public Consultation. University of Milan. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18851391.
Coleman, B., Donia, J., da Mota, M., Sarkar, A., Chung, H. F., Gentile, D., Hazzard, C., Huang, L., Katz, R., Demanuele, A., & Browne, D. (2026). Trust in Human–Artificial Intelligence Interactions (SSRN Scholarly Paper 6758420). Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6758420
Select Presentations
Donia, J. (2026). Secondary use of health data in Canada. European Health Data Space Forum Meeting, University of Milan, Italy.
Donia, J. (2025). Trust and AI for health: Valuing trust in datafied health systems. Working group on trust in AI, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society, University of Toronto, Canada (Online).
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.
Select 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, AI Scribe Session on Legal and Regulatory Issues, Ontario Medical Association, Toronto, Canada.
Invited Contributor, 2024, The Promise and Perils of the Digital Transformation of Cardiology in a Climate Constrained World, 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.
Select Teaching
Winter 2026, Guest Lecturer, Secondary use of health data in Canada and the European Union, MH8005 - Information Technology in Community Care, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.
Fall 2025, Guest Lecturer, Introduction to comparative methods in the social aspects of biotechnology, Social Aspects of Biotechnology, Graduate Elective, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Italy.
Fall 2025, Guest Lecturer, Research Methods in the Health Humanities: Introduction to Review Methods, Graduate Seminar, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Italy.
Fall 2024, Guest Lecturer, Research Methods in the Health Humanities: Introduction to Review Methods, Graduate Seminar, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Italy.