Artificial Intelligence for Global Health
Artificial intelligence for pandemic resilience: A mechanism for validating and deploying high-impact solutions and tools for public health
Objectives
The project establishes a mechanism and process for validating and deploying promising AI initiatives with high potential for positive impact in this domain.
Developing an online directory of promising initiatives to combat pandemics and build societal resilience
Pandemics have a global impact and affect all aspects of our connected society. In order to properly address these impacts, collaboration between governments, the scientific community and industry is essential to implement innovative solutions that protect both the public and the economy, while respecting individual and collective rights.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many international initiatives are seeking to develop effective AI solutions to combat pandemics and build societal resilience. With the explosion of available information and resources, mechanisms for expert validation, scaling, and rapid deployment of practical solutions are crucial and must be developed within the public domain.
The Working Group on Responsible AI was mandated by the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) to support the responsible development and use of AI in the fight against COVID-19 and future pandemics. In the early stages of the project, an online directory of promising initiatives with high potential for expansion was developed. The ever-evolving “living” directory allows for the online submission and evaluation of candidate initiatives.
The project is currently pursuing, in collaboration with a number of promising initiatives in the online directory, a model for equitable and global pandemic modelling, bringing together non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) models from around the world. These models will be integrated into an “automated calibration framework”, able to adapt to various data sets; essentially, whichever data are available as inputs in a given locale. This initiative aims to help governments make decisions around the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions, and will first be deployed as a pilot in a sub-Saharan African country. The ultimate goal of this collaboration will be to have a modelling ensemble that is easily adaptable to different regions.
Working with international partners, this project highlights the ability to use AI systems to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on human rights, innovation, health and life sciences. With its network of international experts and GPAI member countries, CEIMIA is well positioned to provide a structure to review and leverage research, and promote the development of responsible AI initiatives for the common good.
Team
Arnaud Quenneville-Langis
Project Manager
Stephanie King
Director of AI Initiatives
Michael O’Sullivan
GPAI Expert and Project Co-Lead
Paul Suetens
GPAI Expert and Project Co-Lead
Margarita Sordo
GPAI Expert and Project Co-Lead
Collaborators - Phase 1
Samuel Curtis
Adriana Bora
Rui Wang
Nicolas Miailhe
Sacha Alanoca
Johanna Hedlund
Florian Scheidl
Dinithi Bowatte
Stephanie Long
Mahta Ramezanian Panahi
Irene Tenison
Rishav Raj Agarwal
Joseph J. Russell
Lewis Hammond
Bruno Kunzler
Kristy Loke
Abdijabar Mohamed
Karine Perset
Francesca Sheeka
Alan Paic
Cyrus Hodes
Collaborators - Phase 2
Nathaniel Hupert
Patrick McSharry
Victoria Agyepong
Nathan Allen
Partha Roop
Sobhan Chatterjee
Risto Miikkulainen
Babak Hodjat
Olivier Francon
Ahmed Farid
Daniele Pucci
Partners
The Future Society
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Weill Cornell Medicine Institute for Disease & Disaster Preparedness
Cognizant Technology Solutions
University of Auckland
Beyond3Generations
Te Pūnaha Matatini
Getting involved with CEIMIA means contributing to the responsible development of AI for global health.
Do you have an AI or research project related to pandemic resilience and/or modelling? We’d love to learn more. Please enter your project information in our online living directory:
We are also inviting experts from external organisations working in this field to join the team as members of the project advisory committee.