Unlocking GeoAI for Public Health
A seminar on how GeoAI can guide public health decisions more effectively.
Where you live shapes your health, but the relationship between place and health is rarely simple. In this talk, Dr Sabrina Li will show how GeoAI makes sense of that complexity, and how it harnesses diverse data to generate mapping tools that can guide public health decisions more effectively.
Dr Li’s research asks a fundamental question: why do some places and some populations consistently bear a disproportionate burden of disease? The answer lies in the interplay of environmental conditions and deep-rooted social inequality, and finding them requires moving beyond traditional epidemiology. We pursue this through the integration of theoretical frameworks spanning geography, epidemiology, and ecology with cutting-edge computational tools such as satellite imagery, large-scale open datasets, and cutting-edge modelling approaches. Drawing on recent infectious disease epidemics including yellow fever and COVID-19, she will show what GeoAI can offer at each stage, from predicting where risk is highest to informing how populations respond to epidemics. This work expands what geographies of health can look like, and what they can contribute to public health in an era of rapid environmental and social change.
This event is part of the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s AI Frontiers series.
Meet the speaker
Dr Sabrina Li is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, King’s AI+ Senior Fellow, and a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Medical Geography based in the Department of Geography at King’s College London.
As part of her fellowship, she is leading the GeoAI for Health Equity Lab (GAHEL, pronounced “gail”) at King’s. GAHEL’s mission is to advance understanding of how human-environment interactions shape differential disease risk and health outcomes, translating findings into actions to support preparedness and public health planning.
She is passionate about science communication, and has been recognised by Forbes Magazine as one of 30 under 30 in Science and Healthcare, and by the British Science Association as an Award Lecturer in Medical, Agricultural, and Biological Sciences. Before joining King’s, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. She has a DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford.
A seminar on how GeoAI can guide public health decisions more effectively.
Where you live shapes your health, but the relationship between place and health is rarely simple. In this talk, Dr Sabrina Li will show how GeoAI makes sense of that complexity, and how it harnesses diverse data to generate mapping tools that can guide public health decisions more effectively.
Dr Li’s research asks a fundamental question: why do some places and some populations consistently bear a disproportionate burden of disease? The answer lies in the interplay of environmental conditions and deep-rooted social inequality, and finding them requires moving beyond traditional epidemiology. We pursue this through the integration of theoretical frameworks spanning geography, epidemiology, and ecology with cutting-edge computational tools such as satellite imagery, large-scale open datasets, and cutting-edge modelling approaches. Drawing on recent infectious disease epidemics including yellow fever and COVID-19, she will show what GeoAI can offer at each stage, from predicting where risk is highest to informing how populations respond to epidemics. This work expands what geographies of health can look like, and what they can contribute to public health in an era of rapid environmental and social change.
This event is part of the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s AI Frontiers series.
Meet the speaker
Dr Sabrina Li is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, King’s AI+ Senior Fellow, and a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Medical Geography based in the Department of Geography at King’s College London.
As part of her fellowship, she is leading the GeoAI for Health Equity Lab (GAHEL, pronounced “gail”) at King’s. GAHEL’s mission is to advance understanding of how human-environment interactions shape differential disease risk and health outcomes, translating findings into actions to support preparedness and public health planning.
She is passionate about science communication, and has been recognised by Forbes Magazine as one of 30 under 30 in Science and Healthcare, and by the British Science Association as an Award Lecturer in Medical, Agricultural, and Biological Sciences. Before joining King’s, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. She has a DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford.
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