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About

Hi, I'm Meag. I build teams, data repositories, and technologies for the public interest. Currently based in Chicago, IL, USA.

Last Updated: December 2025

Current Work

  • VP of Product, AccelerOnc (2025-present)
  • Founder, Both and Neither (2025-present)
  • Salem Street Paesans (2023-present)
    Genealogical and public history research publication exploring Italian-American family narratives, in collaboration with North End history writers

Previous Work

All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health (2019-2025)
Built and led user experience practice for a $1.7B precision medicine initiative engaging 1M+ participants and 10,000+ researchers. Progressed from Senior Product Design Strategist to Acting Chief UX Officer. Directed a 32-member practice comprising Research and Insights, CX Analytics, UX Strategy, and UX Operations branches, and codified UX as a central governance function for the program.

Earlier Roles

Senior UX Designer, AgencyCHIEF (2017 - 2019)
Directed five agile teams on federal UX projects including Census Bureau, Department of Defense, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.

Operations Associate and Researcher, OpenGov Foundation (2015-2017)
Led operations and user research for civic technology nonprofit working with City of Chicago, Microsoft, and U.S. House of Representatives

Staff Assistant, Office of Congressman Seth Moulton, U.S. House of Representatives (2015)

Clinical Research Coordinator, Partners Healthcare Center for Connected Health (2011-2013)
Supported digital health studies on remote patient monitoring and diabetes management

Education & Training

Fellow, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics (2024-2025)
Fellow, Software Sustainability Institute (2021-2023)
200-hour Kripalu-certified yoga teacher
B.S. in Health Policy and Management, Providence College (2011)

Publications

  • Baskir R, Lee M, McMaster SJ, Lee J, Blackburne-Proctor F, Azuine R, Mack N, Schully SD, Mendoza M, Sanchez J, Crosby Y, Zumba E, Hahn M, Aspaas N, Elmi A, Alerté S, Stewart E, Wilfong D, Doherty M, Farrell MM, Hébert GB, Hood S, Thomas CM, Murray DD, Lee B, Stark LA, Lewis MA, Uhrig JD, Bartlett LR, Rico EG, Falcón A, Cohn E, Lunn MR, Obedin-Maliver J, Cottler L, Eder M, Randal FT, Karnes J, Lemieux K, Lemieux N Jr, Lemieux N 3rd, Bradley L, Tepp R, Wilson M, Rodriguez M, Lunt C, Watson K (2025): "Research for all: building a diverse researcher community for the All of Us Research Program." J Am Med Inform Assoc. 32(1):38-50. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocae270. PMID: 39545358; PMCID: PMC11648709.

Recent Public Engagements

  • Doherty, Meag (2025): "A 3-Question Framework for Making Ethical Tech Decisions." The New Stack. Interview. Video recording.
  • Doherty, Meag (2025): "Making the Right Thing the Easy Thing." JupyterCon. Keynote.
  • Doherty, Meag (2025): "Should Screening Embryos Be Frictionless? Designing for Ethics in High-Stakes Healthcare." UX Camp. Online. Talk. Video recording.
  • Meag Doherty and Zihao Lu (2025): "ByteSized RSE: Design with a capital D." Code4Thought. Podcast. Audio Recording.
  • Doherty, Meag (2025): "Byte-sized RSE Season 3 Session 3: The value of UX design." Society of Research Software Engineering. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28477772
  • Fox, Eriol; Wilson, Katie; Doherty, Meag (2024): "The USER project. Usable Software Ecosystem Research for Science and Research OSS." Open Science Stories Podcast. Audio recording.
  • Doherty, Meag (2023): "Maximizing the Impact of User Feedback: Effective Practices for Community Management." JupyterCon. Talk. Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie. [This talk was also presented at Collaborations Workshop 2023. University of Manchester.] https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21670799.v1
  • Doherty, Meag; Simpson, Noel (2023): "What are good practices and practical steps for conducting effective usability testing in agile environments?" Collaborations Workshop. Workshop. University of Manchester. Session notes.
  • Doherty, Meag (2022): "The evolving role of UX/UI in research software." Imperial Research Software Community. Seminar. Imperial College London. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21670799.v1
  • Doherty, Meag (2022): "Understanding researcher needs in TREs." RSECon. Lightning Talk. Newscastle University. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21670787.v2
  • Doherty, Meag (2022): "Everyone has a say: Embedding human-centred design (HCD) in the research setting." AI for multiple long-term conditions: Research Support Facility (RSF) Seminar Series. Seminar. Alan Turing Institute. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21385389.v1
  • Doherty, Meag (2022): "Measuring User Outcomes in Research Software." Collaborations Workshop. Lightning Talk. Software Sustainability Institute. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19469855.v
  • Gibson, Sarah; Ragan-Kelley, Min; Doherty, Meag; Rao, Achintya (2022): "Crowdsourcing Community Practices for Reproducible Computational Environments in the Cloud" Collaborations Workshop. Mini-Workshop. Software Sustainability Institute.
  • Doherty, Meag (2021): "Exploring the possible of biomedical data visualization" Birds of a Feather session. csv,conf,v6. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25330510.v1