Fotini Christia has been selected as the holder of the Ford International Professor in recognition of her distinguished record of scholarly, professional, and pedagogical contributions to the study of ethnic conflict, political and economic development. In addition, Devavrat Shah has been selected as the holder of the Andrew (1956) and...
Lockdowns reveal inequities in opportunities for walking activities
(By Stephanie M. McPherson) Lockdowns saved lives during the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. But as much as they have slowed the spread of Covid-19, there have been some unintended consequences. New research from the MIT Connection Science Group shows that lockdowns in ten metropolitan areas throughout the United States led to...
The potential of artificial intelligence to bring equity in health care
The Jameel Clinic recently hosted the AI for Health Care Equity Conference to assess current state-of-the-art work in this space, including new machine learning techniques that support fairness, personalization, and inclusiveness; identify key areas of impact in health care delivery; and discuss regulatory and policy implications. Nearly 1,400 people virtually...
Paper by CBI researchers helps define challenges with scaling of vaccine manufacturing
The team, led by CBI research scientist Donovan Guttieres published 'Models to inform neutralizing antibody therapy strategies during pandemics: the case of SARS-CoV-2' in the March 2021 volume of Antibody Therapeutics. This work was funded by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and was previously featured in MIT news. Read the...
Job connectivity improves resiliency in U.S. cities
What makes urban labor markets more resilient? This is the question at the heart of a new study published in Nature Communications by members of MIT’s Connection Science Group. The researchers in this study, including MIT research scientist and Universidad Carlos III (Spain) Professor Esteban Moro; University of Pittsburgh professor and former...
MIT researchers publish new study on social learning dynamics
Prof. Sandy Pentland (Media Lab and IDSS) and Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) are among the co-authors of "Bayesian collective learning emerges from heuristic social learning" to be published in the July 2021 edition of Cognition. The paper draws on data from eToro, a social financial trading tool and...
3 Questions: AI for Healthcare Equity
Regina Barzilay, Fotini Christia, and Collin Stultz describe how artificial intelligence and machine learning can support fairness, personalization, and inclusiveness in health care.
Modeling Framework to Evaluate Vaccine Strategies against the COVID-19 Pandemic
CBI's Biomanufacturing Group published "Modeling Framework to Evaluate Vaccine Strategies against the COVID-19 Pandemic" in the journal Systems as part of a special issue titled Systemic Thinking in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis. The paper provides a systems-level modeling framework to guide the development of analytical tools aimed at informing time-critical...
Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
A new web-friendly modeling tool helps organizations build tailored Covid-19 testing strategies that can save money and reduce coronavirus spread.
NEWDIGS – Dynamic Dossier in the Cloud
Published on October 28th in Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science, this article from CBI NEWDIGS addresses inefficiencies in the system and process of data sharing among stakeholders in the development, access, and use of drug therapies. It applies a Systems Engineering approach within a case study to propose a scalable...