UVI Secures $550,000 in Grants to Address Health Inequities with AI

Two grants totalling $550,000 have been awarded to the Eastern Caribbean Center at the University of the Virgin Islands to “tackle health inequities and improve healthcare service delivery in the USVI,” using artificial intelligence and machine learning, according to a UVI press statement issued on Tuesday. The grants were awarded under the National Institutes of Health's Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. The first – the Federated Network Grant – is a two-year award of $400,000, which will be used to “integrate electronic health records from the Virgin Islands into the AIM-AHEAD Federated Network, a secure platform for collaborative research,” according to the UVI statement. This integration, which will be led by Dr. Aaron Rapp of UVI's College of Science and Mathematics and Ayishih Bellew of the Eastern Caribbean Center, is expected to “support health equity and advance public health decision-ma...