For 25 years, the Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) has brought together researchers, practitioners, and partners across UCSF, the Bay Area, and around the world to help address some of the most intractable problems.
Now, IGHS is moving into the next era of global health, where artificial intelligence is poised to reshape research, education, and care delivery. Through its new AI Roadmap, IGHS is building a foundation to ensure that AI serves the communities global health was built to reach, not only well-resourced systems where AI is being developed.
The new Roadmap reflects months of IGHS community input and was vetted across IGHS stakeholders and leadership. IGHS is among the first U.S. global health programs to commit to a strategic AI framework, and intends to share its approach with peer institutions navigating the same questions
The Roadmap organizes IGHS’s AI work across four areas. The vision throughout is consistent: AI that is open, interoperable, locally governed, and embedded in health systems that are equitable and effective.
Over the coming year, IGHS will advance through three phases, moving from early, exploratory AI use to coordinated, embedded capability across the Institute.
Contact Joshua Richardson to learn more and receive additional updates.
Joshua Richardson, PhD, MS, MLIS
joshua.richardson@ucsf.edu