Tiffany Veinot

Research Areas

Biography

Tiffany Veinot, MLS, PhD, FACMI, is the Joan C. Durrance Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI). She also holds appointments as Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity in the School of Public Health and Professor of Learning Health Sciences in the Medical School.

Veinot’s research focuses on digital health equity and community health informatics. She studies how digital health technologies can widen or narrow disparities in health and health care, and how information systems and services can be designed with and for marginalized communities to improve health. Drawing on health informatics, human-computer interaction, information science, and public health, she employs qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Her recent and current projects examine health informatics interventions related to medication affordability, transportation access, and patient safety in hemodialysis care, as well as the equitable design and evaluation of patient-facing technologies, including telehealth systems.

Veinot has authored or coauthored 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. Her published research has received 19 awards and honors spanning health informatics, human-computer interaction, information science, and public health. She has held 28 extramural research awards from funders in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, including the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Science Foundation, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. As Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator, she has led awards totaling $15.6 million. She has also served as a co-investigator on additional projects with total award values exceeding $10 million.

Veinot is committed to translating research into policy and practice. Her knowledge-mobilization work has encompassed 16 research projects involving approximately 50 partner organizations, including community nonprofits, health systems, public health agencies, government bodies, and companies. In recognition of this work, she received UMSI’s Joan C. Durrance Community Engagement Award in 2025. Her scholarship has been featured or discussed by media outlets including CBC Radio One, Vox, Scientific American, and the Los Angeles Times. It has also been cited in 13 policy- and practice-related reports, statements, and guidelines issued by organizations such as the National Academy of Medicine, the World Health Organization, the American Geriatrics Society, the American College of Cardiology, and Public Health Ontario. To deepen her policy engagement, she completed a Health Policy Fellowship at the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation in 2025 and joined the American Medical Informatics Association’s Public Policy Committee in 2026.

Veinot has helped build scholarly communities devoted to health equity research in informatics and human-computer interaction. She is the founding chair of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Health and Healthcare Equity Working Group. She guest-edited a special double issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, “Health Informatics and Health Equity: Improving Our Reach and Impact.” She also co-chaired a national Computing Research Association workshop on sociotechnical interventions for health disparity reduction and the 2020 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare at the AMIA Annual Symposium—the first WISH symposium to focus on health equity.

In the classroom, Veinot is a founding faculty member and former director of UMSI’s Master of Health Informatics program, which launched in 2012. She has developed or adapted and taught five health informatics courses, as well as a doctoral course in qualitative research methods. She previously served as UMSI’s Associate Dean for Faculty.

Veinot was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 2022. In 2023–2024, she was a British Academy Visiting Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.

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Areas of Interest

Designing, implementing and evaluating informatics interventions, including AI-enabled tools, to facilitate health system action on health and healthcare disparities.
Developing novel, AI-informed informatics measures and models to assist communities in understanding and improving local living conditions that impact health outcomes.
Creating and testing health informatics interventions that draw on AI and other technologies to build social support, reduce illness-related stigma, and promote health-enhancing behaviors, within social, community and family networks.
Building theories and evaluation frameworks for digital health equity and trustworthy adoption of health AI in research, policy and practice.
Advancing participatory and community-engaged methods that enable diverse and equity-seeking groups to shape health AI and informatics research, implementation, and translation into interventions, services, and policy improvements.

Honors and Awards

Joan C. Durrance Community Engagement Award, University of Michigan School of Information, 2025
Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT) Policy Fellowship, 2025
Visiting Fellowships Programme, British Academy (UK), 2023
Elected Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), 2022
Big Ten Academic Alliance, Academic Leadership Fellowship, 2021-2022
Excellence in Peer Review Award, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2019, 2023
Michael D. Cohen Service Award, University of Michigan School of Information, 2018
Staff Achievement Award, Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange, 2004
Who’s Who of Canadian Women, biographee, 1996-present