Pan-Caribbean
(Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua & Barbuda, Trinidad & Tobago, etc.)
Hub: University of the West Indies (UWI)
Title: AI Solutions to Strengthen Public Health Data Systems for the
Management of Infectious Diseases and NCDs in Small Island
Developing States
Team Members
Dr. Simon Anderson
Director
Ms. Emilie Ramsahai
Team Member
Dr. Christine Carrington
Team Member
Dr. Donald Simeon
Team Member
Dr. Harry Hemmingway
Team Member
Nurse Ronis Joseph Browne
Team MemberGeneral Objective
To strengthen public health systems through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to capture and manage data required to inform decision making and for priority research thus facilitating the prevention, preparation and the response to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases enabling the provision of equitable health care in the Caribbean.
Specific Objectives
1. Undertake an assessment of the digital status of Caribbean countries as defined by the Pan American Health Organization’s Information Systems for Health.
2. Develop a capacity building plan to bridge the gaps identified, utilising a bespoke (TREE) framework that includes transparency, reproducibility, ethics, and effectiveness, and addressing data governance with legal and social implications.
3. Create AI solutions that will make clinical data more accessible in the public health sector: specifically using natural language processing (NLP) to convert hard copy medical records to electronic medical records.
4. To use these AI-derived solutions to track and predict spatial and temporal trends in symptomatology associated with infectious diseases and synergism with NCDs, as well as vectors and environmental parameters known to facilitate disease emergence and thereby inform health policy and programming.