AI for Covid-19 Response: Federal Health Virtual Forum

In our recent virtual forum on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in response to the coronavirus pandemic, leaders from the Federal Government, Booz Allen, and select industry and academic partners provided a candid look at how AI is already being applied. We also explore opportunities to further leverage AI with a long-term strategy.

If you missed the live webinar, watch the recording and learn more about AI's role in the global public health community's response to COVID-19 and planning for future outbreaks. 

What you’ll learn:

• How agencies and industry experts are leveraging AI for COVID-19 response
• Best practices for data management workflows
• How to identify and mitigate common AI challenges
• Importance of collaboration to overcome challenges related to COVID-19

Hosts:

• Dr. Kevin Vigilante, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Booz Allen

Speakers:

• Dr. John Brownstein
  Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor, Harvard Medical School
  Presentation title: “Digital Epidemiology and the COVID-19 Pandemic”

• Dr. Kim D. Pruitt, Ph.D.
  Chief, Information Engineering Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information/National Library of Medicine (NLM)/National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  Presentation title: “NLM Digital Data Management and Standards to Support COVID-19 Research”

• Catherine Ordun, Dr. Edward Raff, Alex Hanson
  Senior Associates, Booz Allen Hamilton
  Presentation title: “Exploratory Analysis of Covid-19 Tweets using Topic Modeling, UMAP, and DiGraphs”

• Capt. Kimberly Elenberg
  Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy), COVID-19 Task Force

• Dr. Amir Mokhtari and Dr. Jeffrey Kriseman
  Senior Associates, Booz Allen Hamilton
  Presentation title: “COVID-19 Simulator: A Multi-Method Approach for Modeling Infectious Disease Dynamics in Communities”

• Dr. Thomas Osborne
  Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Director, National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System

• Aaron Peters
  Veterans Experience Office (VEO) Data Science Project Lead, Booz Allen Hamilton 
  Presentation title: “VEO Veterans Signals: COVID-19 Customer Experience Data”
  
  
• Dr. Susan Gregurick
  Associate Director for Data Science and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS), NIH