Exploring the future of health equity

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Tulane's Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health along with other partners recently hosted at The Nieux on St. Charles Ave. a collaborative AI Design Sprint, aimed at understanding the interplay between AI and health equity.

Hosted in concert with the Tulane Center for Community-engaged artificial intelligence and Nieux Edge, “Exploring the Future of Health Equity” convened 26 community partners, state agency representatives, and academic collaborators for a collaborative work session. 

The session, part of the CEMCH Emerging Issues Supplement on ethical AI in MCH practice, surfaced critical insights about how Louisiana's MCH ecosystem views AI adoption—its possibilities, risks, and the conditions under which partners would engage.

Many of the challenges inherent to health inequity are systemic in nature. The concept behind the pairing of a new technology with this topic was to find new approaches toward overcoming previous systemic barriers.

View a video produced from the event below to learn more, and also see some photos from the experience.

 

Woman sketching diagrams about health equity and AI on a large whiteboard.
Bearded man with coffee smiles, conversing with two women at an indoor event.
Diverse group of adults actively discussing in a circle during an indoor event.
A group discuss AI and health equity in front of a white board.