About
Dr. Christo El Morr is an Associate Professor of Health Informatics, the Health Informatics Certificate
Coordinator, and former Undergraduate Program Director at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University; he is also a Research Scientist at North York General Hospital, Toronto.
His research subscribes in an Equity Informatics perspective; it covers Patient-Centered Virtual Care (e.g., chronic disease management, mental health), Global Health Promotion for equity (e.g., equity health promotion), Human Rights Monitoring (e.g., disability rights, Gender-Based Violence), and Equity AI (e.g., patient readmission, disability advocacy).
As a theologian and a poet, his wider intellectual contribution to Social Justice subscribes in a defense of the human person against alienation, be it in the form of infringement of human freedom or dignity in face of irrational powers and exploitation. His intellectual work encompasses work of freedom from oppression (e.g., analysis of exclusive identities, communion and solidarity, freedom, liberation of reason), freedom from exploitation (e.g., analysis of illusions of freedom, political and religious exploitation), and freedom to celebrate life (e.g., poetry).
He has received research funding from the Ontario Center of Excellence (OCE), the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities research Council (SSHRC), and served as an Expert Reviewer for provincial, federal, and international funding agencies. He received recognition as York University Research Leader.
He serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Extreme Automation and Connectivity in Healthcare (IJEACH) and Editorial Board member of the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior Reports and the International Journal of Mental Health (IJMH) and serves as a Scientific Committee Member in several health informatics conference.
He has published books, chapters, and articles in these areas including the "first of its kind" Health Informatics book in Canada. His two upcoming books include a co-authored textbook on “Machine Learning for Practical Decision Making” (Springer) and an edited book on “AI and Society: Tensions and Opportunities” (CRC Press Taylor & Francis).
Dr. El Morr serves as the president of the Canadian Lebanese Academic Forum (CLAF) that utilizes academic knowledge and capacities to facilitate social justice and transformation. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Extreme Automation and Connectivity in Healthcare (IJEACH), editorial board member of the Computers in Human Behavior Reports and the International Journal of Mental Health (IJMH), and and Editor of Telos Magazine. He also serves as a Scientific Committee Member in several health informatics conference.
Coordinator, and former Undergraduate Program Director at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University; he is also a Research Scientist at North York General Hospital, Toronto.
His research subscribes in an Equity Informatics perspective; it covers Patient-Centered Virtual Care (e.g., chronic disease management, mental health), Global Health Promotion for equity (e.g., equity health promotion), Human Rights Monitoring (e.g., disability rights, Gender-Based Violence), and Equity AI (e.g., patient readmission, disability advocacy).
As a theologian and a poet, his wider intellectual contribution to Social Justice subscribes in a defense of the human person against alienation, be it in the form of infringement of human freedom or dignity in face of irrational powers and exploitation. His intellectual work encompasses work of freedom from oppression (e.g., analysis of exclusive identities, communion and solidarity, freedom, liberation of reason), freedom from exploitation (e.g., analysis of illusions of freedom, political and religious exploitation), and freedom to celebrate life (e.g., poetry).
He has received research funding from the Ontario Center of Excellence (OCE), the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities research Council (SSHRC), and served as an Expert Reviewer for provincial, federal, and international funding agencies. He received recognition as York University Research Leader.
He serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Extreme Automation and Connectivity in Healthcare (IJEACH) and Editorial Board member of the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior Reports and the International Journal of Mental Health (IJMH) and serves as a Scientific Committee Member in several health informatics conference.
He has published books, chapters, and articles in these areas including the "first of its kind" Health Informatics book in Canada. His two upcoming books include a co-authored textbook on “Machine Learning for Practical Decision Making” (Springer) and an edited book on “AI and Society: Tensions and Opportunities” (CRC Press Taylor & Francis).
Dr. El Morr serves as the president of the Canadian Lebanese Academic Forum (CLAF) that utilizes academic knowledge and capacities to facilitate social justice and transformation. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Extreme Automation and Connectivity in Healthcare (IJEACH), editorial board member of the Computers in Human Behavior Reports and the International Journal of Mental Health (IJMH), and and Editor of Telos Magazine. He also serves as a Scientific Committee Member in several health informatics conference.