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Data-driven global health research in the time of COVID Image: Dominic Chavez/World Bank On March 31st and April 1st, the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Department and Tools and Analytics Unit hosted MeasureDev 2021), in partnership with the Center for Effective Global Action. The conference showcased how researchers are using new types of data and data-intensive approaches to address critical public health challenges, especially in low- and middle-income countries. It highlighted ways that new analytical methods (such as applications of artificial intelligence), and gr...

Sponsored by: Computer Science Department Intended Audience(s): Public Categories: Lectures & Seminars Abstract: As Covid-19 spreads in low and middle-income countries, economic disruptions have left hundreds of millions without work or income, precipitating the first rise in global extreme poverty in over 20 years. To offset the pandemic’s most devastating effects, national policymakers and humanitarian organizations are scrambling to provide emergency humanitarian aid to those who need it most. But determining “those who need it most” is difficult in many poor and conflict-affected co...