Universal open medical data necessary for global health equity
Fulfilment of Alan Turing’s vision of “a machine that can learn from experience” is still far off. Whether global health disparities improve or worsen in future will largely depend on whether researchers in both LMICs and HICs can access worldwide open medical data, argues Corvus Health founder and Chief Executive Kate Tulenko in her contribution to The Yuan's series on Open Medical Data.
Open data: Holy Grail or Pandora’s box?
Dr Gaurav Chandra discusses the importance of making medical data accessible to all, connecting global medical data with precision medicine, and calling awareness to the necessity for different governments to open up their medical data to promote the progress of digital health. The conclusion is that the value of artificial intelligence to healthcare lies in better collaboration, innovation, the inclusion of all stakeholders in decision making, and integrity in data custodianship.
AI is key to solving climate-induced migration
As humanity grapples with the increasingly severe consequences of climate change, struggles to prevent the worst outcomes, and becomes increasingly aware of AI’s carbon footprint, it must also recognize that AI holds the key to the solution.
Creating an AI-driven organization
Many companies recognize the importance of AI to their businesses, but often cannot deploy it in a successful strategy. To get the most from data, firms need leaders savvy in AI and data analysis to make more flexible and adaptable hierarchies and invest in their greatest assets - employees - equipping them with the tools and motivation to upskill and thrive in the digital age.
Yes, no, maybe
What is artificial intelligence really, and how does it work? AI has drawn much attention in recent years, but all the hype and the potential surrounding it often obscure the true situation. AI’s dominance is far from preordained or inevitable, and one must step back and assess things from time to time, as these four characters A, B, C, and D do here.
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Semih Kumluk counsels Middle Eastern leaders and executives on digital transformation. He launched the first AI certification program in the Middle East. He has led Unilever innovation project teams and built a number of Data Science and AI communities.
Kritika Singh is a communication professional with much experience in public advisory services. She runs a podcast called It's Kritikal! that talks about climate change, health, and animal welfare. Kritika was also part of the COVID-19 War Room for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare where she was responsible for handling India's COVID-19 communication from an information, education, and communication standpoint.
Gaurav Chandra is the chief operating officer of drug developer Enzolytics. He also runs a platform that uses AI to assess the effects of nutrition, genetics and gut microbiome on chronic medical diseases and infectious diseases. He is a strong proponent of AI's role in early drug discovery and development.
Bertrand Badré, a former managing director of the World Bank, is CEO and Founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital and the author of Can Finance Save the World? (Berrett-Koehler, 2018).
Yann Coatanlem, an economist and fintech executive, is President of Club Praxis and the author of Le Capitalisme contre les inégalités (Presses Universitaires de France, 2022).
Nigel Morris-Cotterill is a lawyer turned financial crime risk and compliance specialist with a special interest in fighting money laundering and the funding of future crime including terrorism. He is also a prolific writer and blogger.
Kate Tulenko is a physician, health systems expert, and founder and chief executive of Corvus Health, a global health workforce firm with the goal of giving all people access to skilled health workers.
Gil Press is managing partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. In his earlier work, he commissioned one of the first studies to quantify the amount of data created worldwide, leading to his current coverage of the latest developments in artificial intelligence.