Terika McCallPhD, MPH, MBA
Director & Principal Investigator
Dr. Terika McCall is an Assistant Professor in the Biostatistics Department (Health Informatics Division) at the Yale School of Public Health, core faculty at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, and Founding Director of the Consumer Health Informatics Lab (CHIL) at Yale. Dr. McCall’s research interests focus on reducing disparities in mental health service access and use through technology. Specifically, she examines the use of telehealth to deliver mental health services and resources to communities that are underserved.
Dr. McCall’s expertise is in user-centered design and usability testing of digital health tools. She has experience leading multidisciplinary teams in industry and academia in the development of digital health tools, and currently teaches a course on the topic, BIS 640/SBS 640/MGT 642: User-Centered Design of Digital Health Tools at Yale School of Public Health. As Director of CHIL, Dr. McCall provides guidance to faculty and students in the development of digital health tools, such as clinical decision support tools, mobile apps, and wearables for diverse populations.
Fun Fact
“My xylophone solo was one of the highlights of elementary school. Skills on the bars, lol.”
Selected Publications
- Recommendations for Designing a Digital Health Tool for Blindness Prevention Among High-Risk Diabetic Retinopathy Patients: Qualitative Focus Group Study of Adults With Diabetes · 2025
- Designing Technology-Assisted Interventions for Justice-Impacted Black American Women · 2025
- Digital Health Tool for Preventing Blindness From Diabetic Retinopathy: Protocol for a Qualitative Study · 2025
- "It was Empowering": Care Pathways — A Novel Culturally Informed Inspiration Card Game for Community-Engaged Co-Design with Black American Women and Clinicians · 2025
- "I think we’re on a cusp of some change:" Coping and Support for Mental Wellness Among Black American Women · 2024
- Internet-Based Social Connections of Black American College Students in Pre– and Peri–COVID-19 Pandemic Periods: Network Analysis · 2024
- Individual and System Level Factors Contributing to Guideline Non-Adherent Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis at a Tertiary Health Care System: A Qualitative Analysis · 2024
- Enhancing Healthcare Accessibility Through Telehealth for Justice Impacted Individuals · 2024
- Human-Algorithmic Interaction Using a Large Language Model-Augmented Artificial Intelligence Clinical Decision Support System · 2024
- Formative Evaluation of an Emergency Department Clinical Decision Support System for Agitation Symptoms: A Study Protocol · 2024
- Design of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States · 2024
- Black American Women's Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services and Use of Mobile Technology to Support the Management of Anxiety · 2023
- Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services and Mobile Technology to Support the Management of Depression Among Black American Women: Cross-Sectional Survey Study · 2023
- Seeking and Providing Social Support on Twitter for Trauma and Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content and Sentiment Analysis · 2023
- Toward Community-Based Natural Language Processing (CBNLP): Cocreating With Communities · 2023
- Personal Health Libraries for People Returning From Incarceration: Protocol for a Qualitative Study · 2023
- Towards Reducing Health Information Inequities in the Caribbean: The Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network Data Sharing Platform Usability Study · 2022
- Development of a Mobile App to Support Self-Management of Anxiety and Depression in African American Women: Usability Study · 2021
- Content and Social Network Analyses of Depression-related Tweets of African American College Students · 2021
- Recommendations for Design of a Mobile Application to Support Management of Anxiety and Depression Among Black American Women · 2022
