CUGH 2025: Communications Workshop

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A Communications Workshop will be hosted by the Pulitzer Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Global Health NOW at the annual Conference for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH 2025) in Atlanta.

A panel of journalists, scientists, and health communication innovators will discuss how to improve health literacy, with a special focus on the opportunities, risks, and ethical concerns surrounding the growing use of AI.

An interactive science communications session will follow the panel. See how scientists and journalists can best collaborate to make research accessible to audiences.

Panelists: 
 

• Hilke Schellman is an Emmy Award-winning journalism professor at New York University and a freelance reporter holding artificial intelligence accountable. As a Pulitzer Center 2022 AI Accountability Fellow, she reported on AI transcription tools in hospitals that are inventing text, and has also researched vocal biomarkers, race bias in medical algorithms rooted in faulty data, and more. 
• Dr. Peter H. Kilmarx is deputy director of the Fogarty International Center. Kilmarx has long been interested in artificial intelligence and the importance of communications in public health. He will share insights from the Fogarty International Center’s communications training work, as well as big data and AI/machine learning training.
• Anant Madabhushi is the executive director of the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute at Emory University in Atlanta. The three-pronged mission of the institute is to innovate, deploy, and scale up accessible, cost-effective, and equitable artificial intelligence tools in health care solutions.
• Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa is a Ugandan innovator, social entrepreneur, and the founder of Chil Artificial Intelligence Lab, a company incorporating AI-guided e-oncology services to detect cervical and breast cancer.

Global Health NOW's Brian Simpson and Dayna Kerecman Myers and the Pulitzer Center's Mikaela Schmitt will moderate the discussion and pitching session.