Terika McCall
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Assistant Professor of Health Informatics, Yale School of Public Health. Founder & Director, Consumer Health Informatics Lab (CHIL@Yale).
About Dr. McCall
Scholar, designer & advocate for health equity
A first-gen student born to teen parents in Opa-Locka, Florida, Dr. McCall was taught the value of education and community service early. Her research centers on inclusive, community-centered design of digital health technologies to advance equity for historically marginalized populations.
Her interdisciplinary work integrates health informatics, human-centered design, behavioral science, and implementation research to build culturally responsive digital interventions. In 2020 she made history as the first PhD graduate in Health Informatics from UNC Chapel Hill, later completing postdoctoral training in Medical Informatics at Yale School of Medicine.
An internationally recognized scholar, she has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Medical Internet Research, and holds leadership roles in the American Medical Informatics Association.
Education
PhD, Health Informatics
UNC Chapel Hill
MBA
Wake Forest University
MPH, Health Behavior & Education
University of Michigan
BS, Health Science Education
University of Florida
Selected Honors
- Health Equity Research Award — Yale School of Public Health
- JEDI Extraordinary Contributions Award — ISRII
- Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow
Consulting
Designing digital health tools that work for everyone
With over 10 years of experience, Dr. McCall advises researchers, startup founders, and non-profits on creating consumer health products — from clinical decision support tools to mobile apps and wearables for diverse populations.
Whether you're launching a new product or refining an existing one, she ensures your digital health tool is culturally responsive, engaging, accessible, and aligned with the needs of your patients, clients, caregivers, clinicians, and communities.
Identify pain points
Surface the real problems and needs your users face.
Understand context of use
Map the environments and workflows your tool lives in.
Specify user requirements
Translate insight into clear, actionable design criteria.
Design & evaluate
Produce solutions and validate them through usability testing.
Speaking
Lectures, panels & keynotes
A sought-after speaker on digital mental health, inclusive design, and health equity, Dr. McCall is regularly invited to deliver lectures, panels, and workshops across academic, clinical, and industry settings — for both scholarly and community audiences.
Training
Teaching the next generation of health tech designers
Dr. McCall created the course she always wanted to take — combining public health, business, human-computer interaction, and health informatics into BIS 640 / SBS 640: User-Centered Design of Digital Health Tools at Yale School of Public Health.
She has also co-instructed a short course to empower exonerated individuals to build a VR app supporting the exoneree community, and her lab leads DiscoTech sessions introducing local high school students to health tech design.
