UCI Public Health joins NIH consortium to enhance diversity in artificial intelligence and machine learning research

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Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH, founding dean of the UCI Program in Public Health, will serve as a multiple principal investigator in the National Institutes of Health Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. The $50 million initiative brings together experts in community engagement, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), health equity research, data science training, and data infrastructure to address disparities. Boden-Albala will leverage her extensive background in community-based participatory research and health equity promotion to contribute to AIM-AHEAD’s critical efforts.

AIM-AHEAD’s efforts will play a critical role in helping eliminate bias, racism, and inequity in the healthcare system while addressing national health disparities.

Improving diversity and inclusion in research is, at its core, a matter of social justice. We’re proud to support the AIM-AHEAD program’s mission to reduce health disparities through equity-driven advances in AI/ML.”

– Bernadette Boden-Albala, DrPH

OCHIN, a national nonprofit learning network for health equity research and innovation, has been selected to lead the data and research component of the program. Under the overall leadership of the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, additional collaborators include Morehouse School of Medicine, Duke Institute for Health Innovation, and North Carolina Central University.