Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 24, 2024

WHO has released guidance on the use of large multi-modal models (LMMs) in health care which detail 40+ recommendations for stakeholders in the field to consider when deploying AI.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Only one-third of Americans would be willing to share their temperature, 29% their location, and one-fourth information about their chronic conditions. In the COVID-19 era, most U.S.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 18, 2024

Advocates for commercial surrogacy argue that financial incentives alone do not compromise informed consent and in fact, a lack of payment for surrogacy services could be exploitative. This could take the form of adapting and expanding an existing convention such as the 1993 Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. Patients from the general population are only assigned names and numbers if they are at risk of targeted violence or are found without identifying information. Yet, I never used his real name.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them. With fast growth in the public health crisis comes evolving and growing risks that, in the midst of the pandemic hurricane, have gone unattended.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Frequently labelled a scholar-activist, she combines academic research and scholarship that bridges law, development, and public health with grassroots work and policy advocacy. In trying to develop non-reformist reforms, it’s been useful to be able to approach issues in ways that are informed by multiple vantage points.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to play a role in health care for predictive analytics, personalization, and public health. On 26th January, I’ll moderate a tweetchat at 1 pm Eastern time, brainstorming the current and future state of and opportunities for AI in health care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By Luciano Bottini Filho, Camila Gianella Malca, and Alicia Ely Yamin The intersection of health financing and the right to health is a common concern in public health advocacy. However, it is challenging to isolate the mechanisms that connect individuals’ rights with increased public investment.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 28, 2022

“Tech giants are the primary forces driving digital transformation forward,” and this is especially the case for health care systems re-imagining how health care services are delivered and “consumed.” Why worry about ethical values in digital health technologies?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Data collection, ensuring that the information fed into the AI represent the population for which the solution is designed – per Dr. Halamka’s Scandinavia/Spain example. How could a nutrition label help to address this risk and bolster confidence in and competence from AI in health care?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

”, Bart had three objectives: To discuss what “openness” can do for inclusiveness in health care To break down dogmas about Open Source AI, and, To offer policy advice for developing regulations and guardrails that could ensure the democratization of health and data to inform better, more equitable health care systems.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

.” The trust reckoning in so much of the world has to do with the latter, what Edelman coins as “information bankruptcy.” Based on this index, only one in four people around the world have “good” information hygiene. Do mine the full global study linked above, as I segue into some of the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

health care system. Among the ten awards, I’ve selected three to highlight to synthesize one systemic issue that has plagued America’s response to the public health crisis. government. (In Mona Hanna-Attisha providing commentary on the events in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2024

In response to the COVID pandemic, the federal government passed the Ryan Haight Act to ease restrictions on telehealth services — making it easier to provide medications to patients without speaking (in person) to a physician. Leveraging Public Opinion to Serve Public Health Again, this is not necessarily problematic !

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

And though evidence is mounting that the risk of hospitalization and death is lower for each person infected compared to Delta, Omicron’s extremely high transmissibility means that a large fraction of the population will become infected in a short time period, particularly in the absence of additional public health measures.

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