Gayo Diallo is a Full Professor of Computer Science and Digital Health at the Bordeaux Public Health School of the University of Bordeaux. He serves as the deputy director of the Assessing Health in a Digitalizing Real-World Setting (AHeaD) research group of the Bordeaux Population Health Lab. He is an affiliate member of the Connected Minds Program at York University in Canada and was a Visiting Professor at University of Minnesota in 2022. His expertise lies in harnessing symbolic AI approaches and semantic technologies for healthcare and ICT for societal development (ICT4D), with various applications (e.g., Drug Discovery, Diseases Tarjectory Prediction), including a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Diallo’s prolific research has yielded over 110+ peer-reviewed articles (Inf. Fusion, JMIR, IEEE/ACM TCBB, Sci Rep, …) and patents. A true pioneer in healthcare informatics and symbolic AI, Dr. Diallo’s groundbreaking work paves the way for leveraging technology to revolutionize global health outcomes.
Talk title: Public Health in the Digital Age: Opportunities, Challenges, and Breakthroughs
Abstract: This talk will strive to show how Computational and Digital Technology is becoming a Game-Changer in Public Health Transformation. I will explore how cutting-edge digital and computational advancements are reshaping public health into a more efficient, data-driven, and accessible domain. It will highlight critical challenges, emerging opportunities, and real-world implementations across various public health sectors (inclunding drug repositionning and phramacovigilance, environmental health, health promotion for underserved population). Special attention will be given to the impact of digital transformation in developing countries and low- and middle-income nations, where innovation has the potential to drive meaningful change and improve health outcomes at scale.