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CAIRE is launching a fellowship program - CAIRE Fellowship Announcement
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The inaugural workshop on AI for Maternal and Child Health (AI4MCH) was hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University and held on the Emory campus on April 1st, 2025. Its goal was to bring together academics and practitioners globally from computing and AI, public and global health, medicine, social sciences, policy, and more.
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Dr. Ismail and Dr. Clifford from CAIRE are co-hosting a seminar series on AIxHealth starting August 26th, 2025 that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners around the globe to design ethical AI in global health, and has been funded by the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech. Learn more about the effort here: AIxHealth.
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Drs. Azra Ismail and Selen Bozkurt, along with Dr. Nadi Kaonga in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received pilot funding from the Emory Medical Care Foundation (EMCF) for a project on menopause with Grady Hospital (June 2025).
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Dr. Azra Ismail and Nasim Katebi received a $50,000 pilot grant from the Women of Emory Impact Circle to support the establishment of Center for AI in REproductive health (CAIRE).
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Drs. Reza Sameni, Abeed Sarker, Matthew Reyna, and Gari Clifford received funding as a part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation award to Dr. Cynthia Whiteney in SPH: Global Health. The BMI team will be de-identifying and transforming CHAMPS data into an AI-ML ready format (February 2025).
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Dr. Nasim Katebi received a CHARTER Research Innovation Support and Enhancement (RISE) Pilot award for the project titled "Investigating the Epigenetic Links Between Socioeconomic Status, Prenatal Stress, and Fetal Developmental Features" (December 2024).
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Dr. Azra Ismail received a Google Award for Inclusion Research. This award will support the design and evaluation of a culturally-sensitive LLM-based chatbot for health information delivery, in the context of maternal and child care in India. It will uncover the potential for harm, as well as develop methods for addressing gaps (October 2023).
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Dr. Gari Clifford and Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford, who co-founded and have led the safe+natal program for the last 10 years, have received a $1.8 million grant from Google.org, together with Maya Health Alliance | Wuqu' Kawoq. Together with BMI faculty Dr. Nasim Katebi and Dr. Reza Sameni, the team will continue to develop and translate a series of AI-driven innovations into the hands of midwives in remote regions in Guatemala (September 12, 2023).
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Dr. Nasim Katebi has received at K12 career development award from the Pediatric and Reproductive Environmental Health program. This grant will support her research on maternal health, with a specific emphasis on environmental influences and maternal stress. Dr. Katebi's research aims to study the connections between these factors and epigenetic modifications within the mother-infant dyad (August 1, 2023).