Global Health Institute

This overview by Katherine Robsky and Saara Bidiwala presents a scoping review on the uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in global health in Africa. Through a multinational, multilingual scoping review of over 2,000 studies from six different databases in three languages, the research team will discuss AI’s potential to alleviate the strain on health care systems.

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Katherine Robsky, Ph.D., MPH, is an assistant professor in the Division of Internal Medicine and lead for epidemiology, surveillance, and data science at the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Practice and Impact. She is an infectious disease epidemiologist with additional interests in the application of implementation science to improve global health equity and the development of in-country research capacity.

Saara Bidiwala (C '26) is an undergraduate student studying computer science and global health on the pre-medical track. She is a research assistant at Georgetown University Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, where she has been researching the intersections between technology and clinical health care.