Description

How can AI be used in public health in general, and in fighting Covid-19 in particular? How can AI help prevent another epidemic crisis? What are the ethical challenges in using AI for public health? Our panel of international experts from the W.H.O., the I-DAIR, and Georgetown University Hospital, will discuss these and other topics with HKUST faculty and students in this webinar. 

Panelist Biography

Dr. Oliver Morgan is the director of the Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment Department in the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Health Emergencies Program. From 2007 through 2016, Dr. Morgan worked for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Morgan obtained a doctorate in epidemiology from Imperial College London and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and reference books.

Dr. Amandeep Singh Gill, Ambassador Amandeep Gill leads the project on establishing the International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) at the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva. Dr. Gill was Executive Director and co-Lead of the Secretariat of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation until August 2019. He was the Indian ambassador to the United Nations. Ambassador Gill has a PhD degree from King’s College London on Nuclear Learning in Multilateral Forums.

Dr. Shahnaz Miri is a board-certified neurologist and a movement disorder fellow at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC. Most recently, she has designed a method of respiratory function self-assessment with a combination of breathing and speech tests to screen respiratory changes using AI voice recognition during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prof. Tim CHENG Kwang-Ting became the Dean of Engineering in May 2016 in concurrence with his appointment as Chair Professor jointly in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1988 with a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.