Teaching - Herman Saksono

2023

Society, Behavior, and Health (PHTH 6204, Spring 2023)
This course explores individual, interpersonal, and social influences on health. Students will learn the application of the social and behavioral sciences in Public Health. Foundations of public health will be examined, including prevention and the prevention paradox, theories of disease causation, and public health ethics. In addition, multi-level influences on health will be examined, including behavioral theories and social determinants of health. Throughout the semester, attention will be paid to disparities in health. Finally, we will examine strategies to reduce health disparities, such as education, interventions, and policy-level changes, and discuss the relative effectiveness of these approaches.

Guest Lectures

AI for Social Impact, Harvard University (CS 288, Fall 2022, Graduate)
User-Centered Design of Digital Health Tools, Yale University (BIS/SBS 640, Spring 2022, Graduate)
Design of Useful and Usable Interactive Systems, Harvard University (CS 179, Spring 2021, Undergraduate)

Updates

My paper on peer matching and digital health storytelling in marginalized populations has been accepted to PACMHCI CSCW journal (preprint). I will present this paper at CSCW in October 2023.

Google Research Funding

Together with Dr. Hoffman, I received funding from Google Health and Fitabase to co-design a community health storytelling technology with marginalized communities. This is a result of a digital health equity research collaboration with Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition. The news article is here.

CHI 2023 & CSCW 2023 AC

I’m an Associate Chair for CHI 2023 and CSCW 2023 papers.

University of Washington CIPCT Keynote

Titled “The Sociality of Personal Health Informatics,” I discussed how health technologies can leverage positive social influences around us.

CHI 2022 Paper Associate Chair

I am an Associate Chair on the Health Subcommittee for CHI 2022.

CHI 2021 Honorable Mention

Excited to share that my StoryMap paper received an Honorable Mention (top 5% of the submissions) at CHI 2021.

Op-Ed in Kompas

Sofia Kartika and I wrote a Kompas op-ed on how the Bank of Indonesia’s banknote designs portraying women as traditional dancers failed to accurately represent Indonesian women’s contribution to society. Medium post is also available to read.

The Guardian interview

I shared my thoughts on a Guardian article on Oprah’s interviewing approaches, especially in the context of conducting qualitative interviews on difficult topics.