The EDT Educational Series was funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health as a supplement to the T32 Training Grant (Technology Research in Chronic and Critical Illness). The T32 is in its 15th year of training for nurse scientists proving how important this work is. “The educational series extends the work of our T32 which is designed to provide rigorous research training and interdisciplinary culturalization to build nursing science aimed at promoting health, managing illness, reducing disability, and enhancing quality of life through the aid of technology,” Dr. DeVito Dabbs said. “We now add a greater emphasis on leveraging technology and design-justice to reduce health disparities and promote health equity for vulnerable populations due to social inequalities.”

The education series is entirely web-based and includes a series of 10, sixty-to-ninety-minute modules covering a wide range of topics; everything from the history of social justice movements to the dimensions of inequality, equity and health disparity, to how technology can advance or undermine the health of a community, to different methods of promoting equity design thinking. Users have access to the entire site and can pick and choose whichever modules they want to complete. A toolkit for educators and training grant directors is also provided and users can print certificates upon completion.