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A new global initiative aims to use AI to improve public health in the developing world

A new effort, led by the Rockefeller Foundation, is aimed at delivering cutting-edge tech to parts of the world that have been slow to benefit from it — and improving…
Mothers attend to their newborns at a hospital in Telangana state.

It’s challenging enough to develop artificial intelligence models using health data generated at the world’s most elite academic medical centers. Now, a group of humanitarian organizations is taking on an even steeper challenge: using data collected in developing countries to improve public health overseas.

The Precision Public Health initiative, led by the Rockefeller Foundation and unveiled Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, hopes to deliver cutting-edge tech to parts of the world that have been slow to benefit from it. The idea is that AI and data

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