Colorism and Skin Tone: Implications for Health and Medical Devices

Dr. Ellis Monk is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; and a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google, where he works on skin tone, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning. His award-winning research focuses on the comparative examination of ethnoracial inequality and colorism, especially in the domains of health disparities, the criminal justice system, and the labor market. He is a recent recipient of a $2.5 million NIH Director's New Innovator Award to support his research on skin tone, pulse oximetry, and health disparities.