Bryson Carrier (graduate of the PhD in Interdisciplinary Health Science) and James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published an article titled, "Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Fitbit Ownership in the NIH All of Us Cohort." The article was published in International Journal of Environmental Research in Public Health as part of the Special Issue Advancing Public and Occupational Health Through Physical Activity and Injury Prevention. 

Using an NIH All of Us Research Program cohort (N = 633,547), the study examined how gender identity, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors predict Fitbit ownership, addressing a gap in population-level characterization of wearable ownership. Because racial and gender disparities in wearable ownership have direct implications for the representativeness of wearable-derived datasets, researchers and policymakers should account for these gaps when generalizing findings from fitness tracker data to broader populations.