Promise to Practice: Reimagining Artificial Intelligence for Equitable Global Health Impact
Shama Patel, Katherine O. Robsky, Wenhui Mao, Umar Usman, Lorena Garcia, Olubukola Omobowale, Gugu Mchunu, Joowhan Sung, Gari Clifford, Anant Madabhushi, Azra Ismail, Saara Bidiwala, Seemab Mehmood, Christine Ngaruiya, Paul E. Kilgore, Keith Martin · 2026
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Shama Patel and a large working group argued in 2026 that artificial intelligence for global health must move from tech optimism to locally led, equity-centered rollout. Their narrative landscape review, joined with talks from a 2025 pre-conference session, surveyed AI across education, epidemiology, and clinical medicine, with data equity at the center. Benefits so far are unevenly shared and thinly tested in real settings.
Five must-dos structure their plan: oversight rules fitted to context, fair capacity building, careful rollout and cost research, open data stores, and community-centered ethical design. Without those shifts, they warn, AI will reinforce the very gaps it claims to solve. The piece asks who designs the tools, for whom, and under whose oversight, and refuses easy answers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shama Patel, Katherine O. Robsky, Wenhui Mao, Umar Usman, Lorena Garcia, Olubukola Omobowale, Gugu Mchunu, Joowhan Sung, Gari Clifford, Anant Madabhushi, Azra Ismail, Saara Bidiwala, Seemab Mehmood, Christine Ngaruiya, Paul E. Kilgore, Keith Martin |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |