Ruth is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Based in the School of Art, she is a nurse, academic, and community-engaged researcher in gender, race, health, and digital technologies. Prior to coming to RMIT, she was the academic co-convenor of the Data, Systems, and Society Research Network (DSSRN), a collaborative research network across the University of Melbourne. Her Fellowship engages health professionals in finding new ways to understand, co-design, and implement sustainable cultural safety initiatives in a range of health contexts. Ruth's current projects include research on social isolation, digital technologies, and the experiences of older people from culturally diverse backgrounds during COVID-19; how women from South Asian backgrounds used apps in pregnancy during the pandemic; affordances of patient-generated health data in the community clinic; using design probes to facilitate discussions about digital health literacy among marginalized communities.