Empowering Health for All: Exploring Digital Innovations for Health Equity

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The Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins University hosts the panel discussion "Empowering Health for All—Exploring Digital Innovations for Health Equity." This special hybrid event marking a new collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and the Koita Centre for Digital Health at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Panel questions include: How are digital health solutions bridging the health equity gap? What are the disruptive innovations of our time?

Sridevi V. Sarma, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and vice dean for graduate education at the Whiting School of Engineering, will give the opening remarks.

Panelists:

• Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Institute Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay; Professor-in-Charge, Koita Centre for Digital Health, IIT Bombay
• Ritu Agarwal, William Polk Carey Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
• Rama Chellappa, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering; Chief Scientist, Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy
• Kunal Parikh, Center for Nanomedicine, Wilmer Eye Institute, Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design, Biomedical Engineering Department
• Sri Sarma, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Vice Dean for Graduate Education, Whiting School of Engineering
• Brian Hasselfeld (moderator), Senior Medical Director, Digital Health and Innovation, Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians; Associate Director, Johns Hopkins inHealth; Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

The Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins University, housed within the University's Office of the Provost, brings together the Johns Hopkins community—faculty, staff, students, and alumni—and a diverse range of Indian partners to improve society in India and beyond through research, education, policy, and practice. The faculty comprise experts in medicine, public health, education, arts and humanities, business, economics, public policy, engineering, data science, and artificial intelligence.

The institute works with India's experts across government, academia, civil society, and the private sector to advance human knowledge and develop bold, world-changing ideas. Its current efforts are rooted in a rich history of impactful collaborations with Indian partners that's nearly century old.