Jayasree K. Iyer to speak at summit on clinical AI for global health

A summit on clinical AI for global health, “Creating Collaborative Action Plans to Improve Global Health Equity through Clinical AI Development,” will take place at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics in November.

Held under the Chatham House Rule, the two-day Summit will bring together global health stakeholders and experts in AI to identify actionable strategies to incentivise the development and uptake of AI health tools that have the potential to improve diagnosis, clinical decision making and treatment planning in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Participants will collaborate to identify the next steps toward bringing these tools into use, forming coalitions to ensure progress continues following the event.

Jayasree K. Iyer, CEO of the Access to Medicine Foundation, will share how the Access to Medicine Index – published every two years since 2008 – can be seen as a model for coalition building through holding industry players accountable and incentivising them to prioritise creating equitable access to medicines in LMICs. Specifically, she will relay how this approach can be emulated to advance the uptake of AI for improving healthcare systems in LMICs.