Next Symposium: 14^th – 15^th May, 2025

2025 Symposium

The second edition of the "AI in Public Health Research" Symposium will take place on 14^th– 15^th May, 2025 at the Conference Centre of the Federal Ministries in Berlin, Germany. 

Registration is open until 25^th April, 2025.

To register, read the complete programme, and find more information, click here.

Looking back at the 2023 Symposium

The inaugural symposium of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research on the topic of "AI in Public Health Research" attracted an international audience of experts from science, industry, and public institutions on 9^th and 10^th November 2023 at the Conference Centre of the Federal Ministries.

The symposium is part of the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)-funded project "AI-supported Data Analysis & Visualization of Pandemics" (AI-DAVis PANDEMICS)* and thus embedded in a series of events that took place this year in Berlin and Boston as part of the BMG's Data for Health initiative. The aim of the collaborations and discussions within the initiative is to make health data usable for global public health research.

Dr. Susanne Ozegowski (Director General, Division 5 "Digitalisation & Innovation", Federal Ministry of Health) and our President Prof. Dr. Lars Schaade opened the symposium and warmly welcomed the approximately 100 guests on site and up to 150 participants online.

15 speakers from the USA and Europe, with significant WHO participation, presented research findings and insights into the five topic areas:

• AI-Supported Decision Making in Public Health
• AI-Supported Diagnostic and Imaging Tools
• Technology Showcase
• Privacy Preserving AI Tools in Public Health Research
• Climate Change and Public Health 

The two keynote speeches by Dr Hendrik Strobelt from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab on "Trustworthy AI by Human-AI Collaboration" and Prof. Dr. Jochen Lennerz from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School on "Fostering Innovation - Navigating Regulation, Public Health and Clinical Care" provided a substantive framework for the presentations. The poster exhibition of the RKI ZKI-PH PhD students provided an opportunity for scientific exchange, discussion of results and initiation of new collaborations.

^{*This symposium is part of the AI-DAVis project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) under grant No. 2523DAT400.}