Ishaw Sharma
Athabasca University
With over a decade of blended experience in public health, digital health, and academia, I’ve developed a multidisciplinary practice grounded in strategic systems thinking and lived experience. I bring an equity lens to every layer of health design—from how data is collected and interpreted, to how technologies are built and governed, to how stories of care are told, withheld, or distorted.
My expertise spans:
• Equity-informed strategy for digital health and responsible AI
• Governance and privacy frameworks rooted in justice, not just compliance
• Mentorship for immigrant BIPOC professionals in health, tech, and data spaces—focused on building confidence in applying an equity lens, and leading systems change from within.
• Visual storytelling—from systems mapping to documentary photography—to interrogate the current system and reimagine what’s possible I’m especially drawn to work that centers:
• The health realities of racialized, immigrant, and diasporic communities • The social and systemic conditions shaping care long before diagnosis • Cultural context as a foundation—not an afterthought—in health systems • Bridging narrative, data, and design to build more honest and human systems