Health Emergency Data Science
Humanitarian responders have access to ever more data in the operational sphere but are often unable to utilize it towards better decision-making. This project solicits real challenges facing leading humanitarian organizations & creates transdisciplinary data science design solutions.
In Pictures: Health Emergency Data Science International Workshop
In December 2018, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the Lassonde School of Engineering hosted an invite-only workshop at York University. The event brought together participants from five key groups needed to solve complex humanitarian data science challenges: Humanitarian Field & Subject Matter Experts, Humanitarian Innovation Specialists, Data and Computer Science Researchers, Designers & Engineers, Data Ethicists & Governance Specialists.
People and Institutions
Conveners
James Orbinski, Director, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research
Spiros Pagiatakis, Professor of Geodesy, Lassonde School of Engineering
Syed Imran Ali, Research Fellow, Global Health and Humanitarianism, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research
Tino Kreutzer, PhD Candidate, School of Health Policy and Management
Organizing Institutions
Lassonde School of Engineering
Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Workshop Presenters & Participants
Presenters were based at the following organizations
United Nations High Commission on Refugees, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, Action Contre La Faim/Action Against Hunger, Catholic Relief Services, REACH Initiative and the International Rescue Committee, American Red Cross, World Food Programme, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research
Participants were based at the following organizations
ACAPS, Canadian Red Cross, CartONG, CIHR-IPPH, Convergence, Elrha, Global Strategy Lab, Grand Challenges Canada, Groundswell Projects, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, ImmerLearn, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, McMaster University, MSF Canada, National Research Council Canada, New York Times, Pivotal, Purple Compass, Queen’s University, Quoin Inc., Rainmaker Enterprise, Seneca College, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Université de Sherbrooke, University of California Irvine, University of Chicago, University of Toronto, York University
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Image Credit: Workshop participant working through a design-driven problem-solving process
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