Abdulmalik Adetola Lawal is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, where his research examines the social and behavioral dimensions of health communication with a focus on how artificial intelligence and digital health systems can be designed to advance health equity across various populations, especially for underserved communities. More specifically, his work explores how communication, trust, stigma, and access shape preventive health decisions and how emerging health technologies can be built to close information gaps rather than widen them, with particular attention to the ways communication can shift motivation toward healthier preventive health behaviors and decisions. He is the founder of the Center for Health Equity and Technology (CHET), an organization that brings together researchers in health communication, artificial intelligence, and biomedical science to advance health equity through work on how communication, trust, and technology shape health decisions and outcomes across diverse communities.
Interests
AI in healthcare, health communication, health policy, social and behavioral sciences, health equity, and health message design
