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The field of public health has seen major methodological progress in recent years, catalyzed in no small part by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Around the world, researchers are using new types of data and new analytical tools to measure, track, and analyze health trends, interventions, and behaviors. On Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 – Thursday, April 1st, 2021, CEGA and the World Bank Group will co-host our 7th Annual Measuring Development Conference: Emerging Data and Methods in Global Health Research. The online event will showcase applications of these new data and tools to health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.
A preliminary agenda can be found below (subject to change):
8:00 am PST Opening remarks: Arianna Legovini, Head of Development Impact Evaluation (DIME), (World Bank)
8:15 am PST Session 1: Leveraging Online and Social Media Data for COVID-19 Responses
Q&A (10 minutes)
9:30 am PST Keynote Address: Ziad Obermeyer, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management and CEGA Faculty Affiliate, UC Berkeley
10:10 am PST Coffee Break
10:20 am PST Session 2: Novel Data and Methods for Disease Tracking and Response
1st Q&A (10 minutes)
2nd Q&A (10 minutes)
12:00 pm PST Panel: Health, Data, and the Environment
1:00 pm PST Coffee Break
1:10 pm PST Lightning Talks
Other lightning talks TBD
Confirmed Workshops:
Workshop: Atlas AI’s public data resources for the global health community
Confirmed Speakers:
If you have any questions, please reach out to Sam Fishman (sfishman@berkeley.edu) or the DIME Analytics team (dimeanalytics@worldbank.org).
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