PinnedThe Case for AI in Global HealthWe’ve all read the warning stories about AI: sentient robots, deep fakes, disappearing jobs. If the risk-benefit calculation for use and regulation of AI focuses on existential risk of human annihilation vs. …AI4 min readAI4 min read
Published inCooper/Smith·PinnedWhat’s up for 2023?Looking ahead, it’s hard not to reflect on 2022. What a year! Top 5 highlights: Our first in-person retreat in over two years at the margins of the International AIDS Society meeting in Montreal. Thanking our longstanding Gates Foundation Program Officer, Marty Gross, as he moves on to a new…3 min read3 min read
Published inCooper/Smith·Aug 21Reflections on ITU’s 2023 AI for Good ConferenceChatGPT launched in November 2022 and immediately captured the world’s imagination, performing feats many thought were years or decades away. But GPT-3.5, the technology that made those feats possible, wasn’t released that month — it had been available for eight months already. The secret of the November 2022 ChatGPT was…AI3 min readAI3 min read
Published inCooper/Smith·Aug 15Five take-aways from the 2023 International AIDS Society ConferenceFrom July 23 to 26, Brisbane, Australia hosted the 12th International AIDS Society conference on HIV science. Over four days, 4,000 attendees shared the latest research on HIV bench research, epidemiology, implementation science, policy, behavioral science, and advocacy efforts. …3 min read3 min read
Published inCooper/Smith·Jun 29The Case for AI in Global HealthWe’ve all read the warning stories about AI: sentient robots, deep fakes, disappearing jobs. If the risk-benefit calculation for use and regulation of AI focuses on existential risk of human annihilation vs. …AI4 min readAI4 min read
Jan 26What’s up for 2023?Looking ahead, it’s hard not to reflect on 2022. What a year! Top 5 highlights: Our first in-person retreat in over two years at the margins of the International AIDS Society meeting in Montreal. 2. In December, working with the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents…3 min read3 min read
Published inCooper/Smith·May 13, 2021Will Africa Receive Enough COVID-19 Vaccine to Blunt the Pandemic?On December 8th, 2020, the United Kingdom became the first country to launch a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Through April 2021, over 1.25 billion vaccine doses were administered worldwide. Of those, 40% have been given in the United States or Europe. …Covax5 min readCovax5 min read
Published inCooper/Smith·May 6, 2021Aggregating Fragmented Health Data in MalawiKuunika: Data For Action featured by the OpenHIE Initiative When data systems don’t work together, critical health decisions are delayed, or never made at all. In Malawi, Cooper/Smith through the Kuunika: Data for Action project, used OpenHIE architecture to facilitate data exchange between OpenLMIS, DHIS2 and other health and logistics data systems, paving the way for smarter, data-driven decisions for health.1 min read1 min read
Published inCooper/Smith·May 6, 2021Put your data where your decisions are! A systematic analysis.Originally published on coopersmith.org, October 14, 2016 We’re gearing up to launch the Kuunika: Data for Action project in Malawi. To date, we’ve had the pleasure of working with some of Malawi’s finest across government, private, and not-for-profit sectors. As we work on the project’s implementation plan, a gap in…3 min read3 min read
Published inCooper/Smith·May 6, 2021Welcome to the Cooper/Smith BlogOriginally published on coopersmith.org, June 17, 2016 The last few months have been exciting for us! We recently received four years of funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support a project in Malawi called Kuunika: Data for Action. (“Kuunika” means to bring the light in the local…1 min read1 min read
