Dr. Megan Threats, PhD, MSLIS is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.  She is a faculty affiliate at the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies at New York University, the Consumer Health Informatics Working Group at Brown University, and the Digital Studies Institute. She is the director of the Health Justice Informatics Lab. 

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She is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in library and information science and public health. Her research focuses on historically marginalized communities’ health information and technology practices, particularly Black and LGBTQ communities. Dr. Threats develops theory about information practices, and investigates structural and social determinants of information and health inequities, specifically intersectional discrimination. She uses community-based methods to design information resources and technologies to reduce disparities and improve marginalized communities' health and well-being.

 

Her research has been published in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and the Journal of Medical Internet Research.  It has also received funding support from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the U-M National Center for Institutional Diversity, and she is the recipient of a U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Early Career Research Development Grant.