Big Data and AI for Achieving UHC:
An International Consultation on Ethics
12-13 October 2017
Miami, USA
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Agenda

12 October | Rapporteur: Joan Dzenowagis

Time

Topic

Speaker(s)

Chair: Roy Joseph

7:30

Breakfast

 

08:30-08:45

Introductions

Professor Kenneth W. Goodman
Professor and Director, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy; University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; USA

Abha Saxena
Dr. Abha Saxena
Coordinator, Global Health Ethics (GHE)
World Health Organization
Geneva,
Switzerland.


08:45-9:00

Welcoming remarks

President Julio Frenk
University of Miami
USA

09:00-09:15

Objectives of the meeting

Vasee Moorthy

09:15-09:30

Declarations of interest and agenda

Andreas Reis
Global Health Ethics
Health Systems and Innovation Cluster
World Health Organization
Geneva
Switzerland

09:30 – 10:00

Overview of global health information technology

Doug Fridsma MD PhD FACP FACMI
President & CEO, AMIA

10:00-10:30

Big Data and Artificial Intelligence:

evidence-based medicine meets the real world

Dr. Paul Tang
Vice President, Chief Health Transformation Officer
IBM Watson Health
USA

10:30–11:00

Coffee

 

11:00-12:30

Challenges & opportunities of using information technology for improving health

11:00-11:20

UNESCO IBC’s Report on Ethics & Big Data

Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen (by skype)
Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics and
Social Sciences of Health
University of Cologne

11:20-11:40

Setting the scene

 

Dr. Joan Dzenowagis

11:40-12.00

Mobile data in public and personal health

Diana Zandi
Institute of Bioethics and Health Policy

 

12:00-12:20

Making a difference in Universal Health Coverage and the SDGs with big data

Anthony T. Seddoh, PhD
World Bank Group

12:20-12:30

Discussion

 

12:30-13:30

Lunch

 

Chair: Jennifer Gibson 

13:30-14:00

Current trends in enhancing individual control of health data in the big data environment 

Prof. Effy Vayena
Chair SPHN ELSIag
Health Ethics and Policy Lab
ETH Zurich

14:00-14:30

Ethics review and data sharing – bridging Legal environments

Dr. Joana Namorado
Health Strategy Unit, DG Research and Innovation
European Commission

14:30-15:00

Emerging ethical challenges & responsible innovations

Dr. Marcel Jeroen Van den Hoven
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

 

15:30-17:00

Ethical reflections

15:30-16:30

Panel discussion.

Moderator: Michael Selgelid

Prof. Amy Fairchild
Centre for the History and Ethics of Public Health Columbia University and Texas A&M USA

Prof Keymanthri Moodley
Professor & Director
Centre for Medical Ethics & Law
Department of Medicine
South Africa

Dr. Johann Roduit
Managing Director
Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine
Center for Medical Humanities
University of Zurich
Switzerland

Dr. Sergio Litewka
University of Miami Miller School of Medecine Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
USA

Dr. Juan Pablo Beca
Centro de Bioética
Facultad de Medicina
Clínica Alemana - Universidad del Desarrollo
Chile

16:30-17:00

General Discussion

 

17:00

End of Day 1

 

19:00

Dinner

 

 

13 October |  Chair: Ron Bayer

Time

Topic

Speaker(s)

7:30

Breakfast

 

8:30-9:00

Recap of Day 1

 

Rapporteur

09:00-12:30

Case studies from around the globe

 

9:00-9:15

Ethical challenges in healthcare Big Data in Republic of Korea

Sumin Kim
Department of Medical Law and Ethics,
Division of Medical Humanities, College of Medicine,
Yonsei University, ROK

9:15-9:30

International data sharing during a Caribbean outbreak 

Nelson Arboleda, MD, MPH
Country Director
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
US Department of Health and Human Services, US Embassy
Dominican Republic

9:30-9:45

Challenges, ethical concerns and gaps in the context of Big data in Argentina

Irene Melamed, MD, MSc
FLACSO
Bioethics Program at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), sede Argetnina
Argentina

Florencia Luna, PhD.
Bioethics Program at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), sede Argentina
Argentina

9:45-10:00

mHealth and the use of big data in Kenya

Cathy Mwangi
Chief Executive Officer
mHealth Kenya
Nairobi
Kenya

10:00-10:30

Discussion

 

10:30–11:00

Coffee

 

11:00-11.20

Singapore: A health insurance companies & Big Data

Calvin W. L. Ho
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore;
Co-Head, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics;
Editor-in-Chief, Asian Bioethics Review 

11:20-11:40

Digital technology and TB treatment adherence

WHO Perspective

Dr. Harald Schmidt
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Research Associate, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
USA

Dr. Ernesto Jaramillo
Medical Officer
Global TB Programme
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland

Andreas Reis
Global Health Ethics
Health Systems and Innovation Cluster
World Health Organization
Geneva
Switzerland  

11:40-12:00

Governance issues – who governs the use of data/Big Data?

Jennifer Gibson, PhD
Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director
Joint Centre for Bioethics
Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics
University of Toronto
Ontario
Canada

12:00-12:30

Discussion

 

12:30-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-14:00

What's ethics got to do with Big Data?

Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D., FCAHS
President & CEO
Council of Canadian Academies

14:00–15:00

Small group work on selected issues

All Participants

15:00-15:30

Reporting back

 

15:30– 15:45

Structure and content of outcome report

Rapporteur

15:45–16:00

Coffee

 

16:00– 16:30

Next Steps and closing

Professor Kenneth W. Goodman
Professor and Director, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy; University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; USA

Abha Saxena
Dr. Abha Saxena
Coordinator, Global Health Ethics (GHE)
World Health Organization
Geneva,
Switzerland.