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Devex: How AI can push for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

Writing for Devex, Access to Medicine Foundation Executive Director Jayasree K. Iyer and Researcher Thomas Collin-Lefebvre explore the issue of artificial intelligence and its potential role in facilitating access to medicines and vaccines in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

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19 November 2020

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The advent of artificial intelligence as an adaptive and predictive technology offers the possibility for radical optimization of business practices, reshaping market opportunities for pharmaceutical companies and ultimately challenging the status quo on access to medicine worldwide.

However, pharmaceutical companies are only starting to explore AI fields of application. As reported by Microsoft, more than 50% of AI professionals work for the tech sector, while only 3% currently work for health organizations and 1% for nonprofit organizations. This disproportion certainly hampers the speed and extent of the technology’s adoption within the pharmaceutical sector.

Read the full opinion piece on Devex,

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