The COVID-19 Pandemic and Precarious Migrants: An Outbreak of Inequality

Algorithmic surveillance in the era of the mental health appsphere

“…We can see the naturalization of mobile devices and their everyday use through the specific lens of mental health and the use of mHealth apps, which have emerged as a catalyzing site for venture capitalists and start‐ups. In fact, Kaur‐Gill and Dutta (2023) warn that “the current neoliberal formations incorporate digital technologies as catalysts for resource extraction and labor exploitation” (p. 2). Elsewhere Dutta points to the importance of these technologies as “integral to neoliberal processes of resource consolidation, playing central roles in the consolidation of power in the hands of the global elite and in the global ascendance of the managerial class” (Dutta, 2015, p. 193 as cited in Elers et al, 2022, pp.…”

Tackling the social marketing formative research bottleneck: comparative analysis of the complementary nature of community-generated personas and focus groups

“…When compared, the negative health impact of COVID-19 on this population was higher than that of other populations in the USA (Boserup et al, 2020;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021;Iyanda et al, 2021;Nana-Sinkam et al, 2021;Riley et al, 2021). The urgent need to respond to the emerging disparities between racial/ethnic groups in early 2020 and the need to create culturally and linguistically appropriate messaging and strategies (Verduzco-Gutierrez et al, 2021;Kaur-Gill and Dutta, 2023) encouraged public health researchers and practitioners to shift from traditional approaches to community-informed models of planning and behavior change (Akintobi et al, 2020;Ghasemian et al, 2021;Pinals et al, 2020;Robles et al, 2021). To that end, a combination of community-engaged process (CBPM) coupled with social marketing was considered to generate audience insights and to counter the bottleneck associated with the slow-moving nature of primary data collection.…”