Stanford Center for Digital Health (CDH)

"Digital health has immense promise to improve population health by reaching individuals in their homes, at their preferred times," write Stanford CDH Digital Health Scholar Daniel Seung Kim, CDH Associate Director Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH, and colleagues. "However, initial data demonstrate decreased patient engagement and worse cardiovascular outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities, leading to unequal uptake of digital health technologies." In this new Springer Nature article, Kim, Rodriguez, Ahmed A. Eltahir and Summer Ngo discuss the importance of digital health equity and how social determinants of health affect cardiovascular health-related outcomes in digital health trials. They also propose strategies to improve digital health equity, emphasizing the importance of societal/governmental policies that enable digital inclusion. See more: https://bit.ly/4fqk0Wa #StanfordCDH #DigitalHealth #DigitalHealthEquity #DigitalInclusion #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth

Take a look inside the 2024 Stanford CDH Symposium, which took place earlier this fall, and convened a diverse group of experts to tackle the most pressing questions in digital health. We hope you enjoy looking back on these highlights as much as we do!

The Stanford CDH team is growing! We currently have the following open roles available within our organization: Senior Administrative Associate: https://lnkd.in/edY4DvrN Research Program Manager: https://lnkd.in/e3r4DDiQ Industry Affiliates Program Manager: https://lnkd.in/e33iq4Nq Join us at intersection of health and technology at a world-class research institution in the heart of Silicon Valley. #StanfordCDH #DigitalHealth #SiliconValleyJobs #StanfordMedicine

We're excited to partner with Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education to offer a specialized seed grant titled "The use of generative AI to improve the health of Asian populations." This project will focus on leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to advance, implement and promote cutting-edge digital solutions to improve Asian health. One grant will be awarded for this cycle. Applications are now open and are due by Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, by 11:59 PM PST. Decisions will be announced in March 2025. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/exEhpYUv Apply here: https://bit.ly/4fw1qw9 #StanfordCDH #DigitalHealth #StanfordCARES #AsianHealth #GenAI

Stanford CDH was thrilled to attend the Global Digital Health Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, last week and facilitate a roundtable discussion on the use of generative AI (GenAI) for health in low- and middle-income countries. This discussion built upon an earlier workshop hosted at Stanford in October. The learnings from these sessions will contribute to a wider research project on the application of GenAI to improve health outcomes worldwide, in partnership with CASBS at Stanford and Bay Area Global Health Alliance, and funded by Advancing Health Online (AHO). In Nairobi, the roundtable discussion aimed to collect feedback on the October workshop's key themes while diving deeper into best practices for evaluating the health impact and potential harms of GenAI interventions. We are grateful to everyone who attended this session, and to those who helped with the on the ground coordination to make this event a success! Sara Anderson and Elizabeth (Lisa) F. (Bay Area Global Health Alliance) Winnie Karanu (Microsoft) Anne Makena, Phd (Africa Oxford Initiative) Dino Rech (Audere) Bilal A Mateen (Digital Square at PATH) Rachel Sibande (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) Karina Rios Michel (Girl Effect) Soma Mitra-Behura (Girl Effect) Yasmin Chandani (inSupply Health) Jay Patel (Jacaranda Health) Paul Macharia (Kenyatta National Hospital./ University of Nairobi) Isabelle Amazon-Brown (The MERL Tech Initiative) Daniel Futerman (Reach Digital Health) Allyson Arocha (Rabin Martin) Lara Rich, M.Ed (Stanford CDH) Eleni Linos (Stanford CDH) Michael Avanti Lopez (Stanford CDH) Isabella de Vere Hunt (Stanford CDH) James Parkhouse (Stanford CDH) #StanfordCDH #GDHF2024 #DigitalHealth #GenAI #HealthEquity #GlobalHealth

Are you one of our next Stanford CDH Digital Health Scholars? Applications are now open for the next cycle! This two-year research program (K12 Mentored Career Development Program), funded by the The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Stanford Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA), offers advanced training in clinical and translational research to junior faculty. The program offers flexible learning models to engage scholars in team science, individual development plans, advanced research training and career guidance. - Application Deadline: Feb. 17, 2025, 11:59 PM PT  - Award Announcements: April 2025  - Funding Period: Sept. 1, 2025 to Aug. 31, 2027 Learn more about the program and eligibility requirements: https://stan.md/49atHH1 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/enMNJtzW #StanfordCDH #DigitalHealth #TranslationalResearch #ClinicalResearch #TeamScience 

💡 Thank you to the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and Stanford Center for Digital Health (CDH) for convening this morning’s roundtable in Nairobi on the Use of GenAI for Health-Related Behavior Change in LMICs, and the opportunity to share Reach Digital Health's perspectives alongside those of other great contributors in this space, including PATH, Audere, Girl Effect, Jacaranda Health and The MERL Tech Initiative. Some great conversations and critical thinking on measuring health impact, proxies for impact and LLM benchmarks, and evaluating the potential harms of LLMs. ✅ It is increasingly important that we make the most of scarce resources and ensure that AI research and development in Africa is meaningful, localised, well publicised and transferable to other African settings. 🗓️ There's still time to register to attend the Bay Area Global Health Alliance #GDHF2024 virtual side event this evening, where Reach Digital Health's CEO Debbie Rogers will share her take on the power of AI in improving social behaviour change for better health outcomes: https://lnkd.in/d8EAbgjX #GenAI #AI #GlobalHealth

We're thrilled to announce our 2024 CDH Pilot Grant Awardees! In this cycle, we awarded eight research grants to a total of 15 PIs. These one-year grants provide $50,000 each to support collaborative, multidisciplinary projects that explore digital health. Please join us in congratulating the following recipients: "Digital Health Innovations to Prevent Health Deterioration in Homeless Veterans" PI: Daniel Blonigen Co-PI: Donna Zulman "Building Trustworthy Digital Health Solutions: Using Crowdsourced Artificial Intelligence for Global Pediatric Healthcare" PI: Wall, Dennis Co-PI: Gary Darmstadt "Adolescent Health & Social Media: Measuring Outcomes of Digital Interventions" PI: Paul Schmiedmayer Co-PI: Emily Fox "Automatic scoring of human speech recognition tests" PI: Matthew Fitzgerald Co-PI: Malcolm Slaney "Transforming the My Heart Counts smartphone app into a digital health platform for clinical trials" PI: Daniel Seung Kim "Performance of a Medical Foundational Model for Central-line Insertion Site Assessments" PI: Jorge Salinas Co-PI: Olivier Gevaert "Informing ethical and responsible implementation of ambient AI scribe technology for diverse patient groups" PI: Shreya Shah Co-PI: Danton Char "Real-time Melatonin Measurement for Studying Dim Light Melatonin Onset" PI: Ada S. Y. Poon Co-PI: Makoto Kawai Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford Department of Medicine Stanford University Department of Pediatrics Stanford Biomedical Data Science Program Stanford University Department of Computer Science Stanford OHNS Department of Music Stanford University #StanfordCDH #DigitalHealth #CDHPilotGrants #DigitalHealthInnovations

Congratulations on the incredible achievement with EVO being featured on the cover of Science! This amazing result reflects the team’s dedication and groundbreaking work in training AI to learn from DNA, the fundamental language of life. Beyond the technical innovations by the team, we incorporated essential elements of biosafety and ethics, ensuring that this work progresses responsibly and with societal impact in mind. It’s inspiring to witness the power of true team science through such an extraordinary group of pioneers. And as Eric said, "we are just getting started"—there's so much more to come!

This event recap from Stanford University School of Medicine looks inside Stanford CDH's Digital Health Annual Symposium on Oct. 29. The program gathered leaders from academia, policy, philanthropy and industry to discuss advancements and challenges in our field, with a focus on trustworthy and equitable innovation. Here are just a few gems from the day: "Digital health, as many of you know, is not just about optimizing the health of patients here and now. It's also about redefining how we approach health care in the future." —CDH Director Eleni Linos "Emerging technologies such as generative AI promise to transform patient care, medical education and biomedical research in profound ways. Our responsibility is to figure out how to do this equitably and safely." —Stanford Medicine Dean Lloyd Minor "Our field tends to get caught up in the hype, and we want a revolution every three minutes. But medicine doesn't change that fast, and we have to accept the natural rhythm of our field and adapt this incoming technology so that it works in our service instead of dragging us into distraction." —CDH Affiliated Faculty Nigam Shah "Within the public health space, we have to deal with the legacy of innovation being designed for others and not for those populations that are most in need of innovation of health care [and] health surveillance. … I worry that we are not centering our innovation on the populations that need help, so we inadvertently open this opportunity for disparity to grow." —Michelle Williams (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) We're grateful for all of the valuable insights and meaningful discussions that took place! See the full article here: https://stan.md/4eZwWmB #StanfordCDH #DigitalHealth #HealthInnovation #HealthEquity #GenAI #FutureOfMedicine #HealthDisparities