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Maternal and child health outcomes in Africa still lag behind the rest of the world despite prioritization as a topic of focus within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Partners from country-level governments, research institutions, private sector program funding agencies and non-governmental organizations are involved in various capacities and across disciplines, implementing activities to reduce the enormous burden of high mortality and morbidity of women and children on the African continent. Nonetheless, millions of women and children experience death and severe morbidity each year despite these efforts. In this session we will 1) address the gap in availability of existing databases and collective data focused on pregnancy and the peripartum period; 2) explore emerging use of linked data such as electronic medical records as a tool for conducting research, analyzing data and creating tools for interventions; and 3) develop concrete recommendations for a strategy to utilize data science to improve maternal and child health outcomes from pre-pregnancy to pregnancy and delivery and throughout the mother and child’s life course.

Introductions:
- Vesna Kutlesic, Ph.D., Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Naveen Rao, M.D., Senior Vice President & Senior Advisor to the President, Health Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation
- Diana Bianchi, M.D., Director, NICHD, NIH

Moderators:
- Denise Russo, Ph.D., NICHD, NIH
- Marion koso-Thomas, M.D., MPH, NICHD, NIH

Panelists:
- Andre van der Kouwe, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Physics, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Lilla Zöllei, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
- Moses Alobo, M.D., Program Manager, Grand Challenges Africa Programme at African Academy of Sciences
- Alash’le Abimiku, Ph.D., Professor in Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Executive Director, International Research Center of Excellence at the Institute of Human Virology-Nigeria
- Amel Ghouila, Ph.D., Vice President, African Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB); Founder, Technovation Tunisia

Environmental Health challenges in Africa are complex, involving a broad range of exposures, including ambient and indoor air pollution, electronic waste, heavy metals, pesticides, vector-borne pathogens, and climate change, and a large proportion of the disease burden in Africa is linked to environmental factors. As part of the DS-I Africa State of Data Science series, this session explored unique aspects and analytic challenges of the various types of environmental health data and will highlight recent data science approaches to characterizing hazardous exposures on the African continent, connecting environmental exposures to health outcomes, and reducing the risk of disease connected to the environment.

Moderator:
Gwen Collman, Acting Deputy Director, Associate Director for Extramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Panelists:

Kiros Berhane, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Caradee Wright, Senior Specialist Scientist, Environment and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
Engineer Bainomugisha, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing & IT, Makerere University

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/AfricaData

Learn more about the DS-I Africa Virtual Symposium Platform: https://commonfund.nih.gov/africadata...

This panel brings together relevant speakers and panelists to discuss biomedical data ecosystems, frameworks, best practices and lessons learned to establish the next-generation platform infrastructure to make data more discoverable and accessible, and foster a collaborative research community. Expert presenters and panelists from academia, industry, non-profit and governmental sectors discuss technology solutions as well as the importance to partnerships.

Panelists:

- Nicola Mulder, Professor and head of the Computational Biology, University of Cape Town; PI of H3ABioNet
- Benedict Paten, Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC
- Geoffrey Siwo, Research Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
- Russ Taylor, Professor of Astronomy, University of Cape Town
- Susan Veldsman, Director, Scholarly Publishing Unit, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/AfricaData

Learn more about the DS-I Africa Virtual Symposium Platform: https://commonfund.nih.gov/africadata...

Across Africa, innovators and entrepreneurs are transforming a broad range of sectors, including health. This video features emerging innovators and entrepreneurs who are utilizing new approaches, technologies, business models, and partnerships to dramatically change how health solutions are developed and delivered.

Featured speakers:
- Roger Glass, Director, Fogarty International Center, NIH
- Andrea (Andi) Gobin, Director of Invention Education & Lecturer, Rice 360 Institute for Global Health, Rice University
- Gregory Gamula, Dean of Engineering, University of Malawi, The Polytechnic
- Theresa Mkandawire, Associate Professor, University of Malawi, The Polytechnic
- Robert Karanja, CEO, Villgro Kenya
- Fadhili Chacha Marwa, CEO, Enzi Health

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/AfricaData

Learn more about the DS-I Africa Virtual Symposium Platform: https://commonfund.nih.gov/africadata...

Dr. Aisha Walcott-Bryant shares examples of IBM Research’s work in Africa leveraging artificial intelligence and data science to address major health challenges in Africa and their approach to local collaboration and partnerships. Specifically, she describes work to support decision-making related to malaria, generate interventions to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and improve maternal, newborn, and child health.

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/AfricaData

Learn more about the DS-I Africa Virtual Symposium Platform: https://commonfund.nih.gov/africadata...

As part of the DS-I Africa State of Data Science series, this session focused on opportunities and challenges at the intersection of biomedical imaging (including microscopy, diagnostic and interventional radiology, and digital pathology) and data science. The session both considered new and emerging imaging modalities as well as computer-aided diagnosis and treatment planning tools and emerging AI/machine learning approaches to image analysis.

Moderator:
Paul Pearlman, Program Director/Lead, Global Health Technology, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health

Panelists:
Dan Milner, Chief Medical Officer, American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Center for Global Health
Michael Kawooya, Professor/Director, Ernest Cook Ultrasound Research and Education Institute (ECUREI)
Celia Cintas, Research Scientist, IBM Research Africa
Sameer Antani, Chief for the Communications Engineering Branch and the Computer Science Branch, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/AfricaData

Learn more about the DS-I Africa Virtual Symposium Platform: https://commonfund.nih.gov/africadata...

In this webinar, NIH staff explain the application process for the NIH Director's New Innovator Award and answer attendee questions.

There is a non-audio-described version of this video here: https://youtu.be/lADYJkhCtco.

The New Innovator Award is part of the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, and supports exceptionally creative early career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects in the biomedical, behavioral or social sciences within the NIH mission.

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator


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In this webinar, NIH staff explain the application process for the NIH Director's Early Independence Award and answer attendee questions.

There is a non-audio-described version of this video here: https://youtu.be/AEUKkluZUls.

The Early Independence Award is part of the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, and supports outstanding junior scientists with the intellect, scientific creativity, drive, and maturity to bypass the traditional postdoctoral training period and launch independent research careers.

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/earlyindep...


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In this webinar, NIH staff explain the application process for the NIH Director's Transformative Research Award and answer attendee questions.

A non-audio-described version of this video is available here: https://youtu.be/JzNJubfp2_8.

The Transformative Research Award is part of the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, and supports individuals or teams proposing transformative projects that are inherently risky and untested but have the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms and may require very large budgets.

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/tra

Dr Alexei Demchenko from the University of Missouri discusses his research which is focused on developing new automated methods to build glycans

View a non-audio-described version of the video:https://youtu.be/rU_7DSPA0_Y

Dr. Catherine Leimkuhler Grimes from the University of Delaware discusses her research which aims to use glycobiology to better understand bacteria and the human microbiome.

View a non-audio-described version of the video:https://youtu.be/0uWviuMey8Y

Dr Rene Ranzinger from the University of Georgia explains how to use the Common Fund Glycoscience program web portal glygen.org

View a non-audio-described version of the video: https://youtu.be/3b8YYB_EXI4

Dr Robert Woods from the University of Georgia discusses his research which focuses on molecular modeling tools for glycobiology research

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Dr Nicola Pohl from Indiana University discusses her research focused on creating easier automated methods to make glycans.

View a non-audio-described version of the video: https://youtu.be/QpugpiQUSY4

Dr. Richard Cummings from Harvard University discusses his research which is focused on creating smart anti glycan recognizing reagents

View a non audio-described version of the video: https://youtu.be/eP0WRyf54XI