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Leading researchers discussed which requirements AI algorithms must meet to fight bias in healthcare during the Artificial Intelligence and Implications for Health Equity: Will AI Improve Equity or Increase Disparities? session which was held on 1 December.
The speakers were: Ziad Obermeyer, associate professor of health policy and management at the Berkeley School of Public Health, CA; Luke Oakden-Rayner, director of medical imaging research at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia; Constance Lehman, professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, director of breast imaging, and co-director of the Avon Comprehensive Breast Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Regina Barzilay, professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science and member of the Computer Science and AI Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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KUOW - Pregnant People Haven t Been Part Of Vaccine Trials Should They Get The Vaccine?
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Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Turn Toward Testing Children
Moderna, Pfizer now include children in trials, as health experts urge more such research to help curb transmission and reopen schools
A teacher led elementary school students in a dance last month in Stamford, Conn. Some experts don’t expect a children’s vaccine will be ready by the 2021 school year because of how long trials take.
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By Dec. 11, 2020 7:00 am ET
Pharmaceutical companies and health officials are homing in on a key sector of the population that has been largely left out of planning for Covid-19 vaccines: children.