Kellie Owens is Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

She is a medical sociologist and empirical bioethicist whose work focuses on the ethical use of health information technologies. She is particularly interested in understanding when and how new technologies worsen or improve health inequities.

Her most recent projects explore the actionability of genomic data for healthy populations. She is also interested in developing better social and technical infrastructures to support artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) tools in healthcare.