Lucia Vitale @luciavitale.bsky.social
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Global health scholar. https://t.co/0z7Z6XrUcL Studies social policy, borders & medical AI. UCSC Polisci PhD candidate.
Washington, DC
Joined April 2020
📢 NEW #ArtificialIntelligence & Global Health @socscimed article 📢 @leahshipton & I situate AI in a long line of tech interventions that avoid addressing fundamental determinants of health inequities—a phenomenon we call the "politics of avoidance" https://t.co/6Gg5FGFUhB 1/8
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What makes the world uncertain? Is uncertainty something we need to overcome? Can uncertainty prompt change? Happening now: https://t.co/ooOIoE1fF0 Thanks to the panelists for such a great discussion! @ZSwissenschaft @TeresaKoloma @CvNegenborn @South_Attitude @ShaliniRanderia
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1/3. Excited to share our new article, "Alternative Archives: Researching Politics with Chunks of Reality". It explores innovative ways to access data amidst surveillance, authoritarianism, and data monopolies @PolStudiesAssoc @luciavitale_ @hlmclaug
#SAGE
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The challenges and opportunities of accessing empirical material present a puzzle insofar as they index simultaneously the politics of research archives and the...
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Will AI Tools Revolutionize Public Health? Not If They Continue Following Old Patterns, Researchers Argue https://t.co/oZ5bzPo6Bf
#GlobalHealth #HealthTech #AI #UseOurIntel
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This is a really important development in US policy from @AmbassadorTai
For years the U.S. expanded Big Pharma monopolies abroad at the expense of access to medicine in developing countries. Thank you @AmbassadorTai for beginning to change this. Thanks @SenWarren for your advocacy. New: USTR answers @SenateFinance: https://t.co/JlcZMGoR8t
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TODAY at 4pm ET: Join us on Zoom or in person at 152 Bay State Road for a talk by @TimothyWSchwab on his new book, "The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire," from @MacmillanUSA. Learn more: https://t.co/11JfhCzuYT
In the 1st talk, @TimothyWSchwab will discuss his book, "The Bill Gates Problem" (@MacmillanUSA). He argues @gatesfoundation is not a philanthropy, but an unregulated political actor shaping government spending & priorities, particularly in #globalhealth. https://t.co/11JfhCzuYT
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FANTASTIC comments by @KatieRoseEllena today at @TheWilsonCenter’s event on supervising democracy in #LatinAmericanelections re: the judicialization of elections and the threat this can represent for systemic manipulation by autocrats Sounds familiar….🥸
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By continuing to fail to address deeper #PoliticalDeterminantsOfHealth, #EconomicDeterminantsOfHealth, and #CommercialDeterminantsOfHealth, albeit at times differently than its tech predecessors, AI engages in the #PoliticsOfAvoidance 8/8
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7- CONTINUES, DISRUPTS: AI adoption requires infrastructure investments (ex: electric grids, Internet), reminiscent of challenges faced and yet-2-b-fixed by other tech, such as ultra-cold chain vaccine storage But, incentives to mine health data may overcome these barriers 7/8
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6-CONTINUES, DISRUPTS: Fixing health workforce shortages w/ AI continues to ignore deep drivers of these shortages; ex: HIC immigration policies designed to attract LMIC talent But, brain drain may be different under AI, as jobs shift sector from LMIC med, to HIC med-tech 6/8
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5- DISRUPTS: Global health has historically followed Vertical or Horizontal Intervention approaches to health delivery. AI appears to depart from this binary in its potential of use in/for both approaches. Stay tuned for more on this-- https://t.co/uH4yEpkEZk
@Fond_Brocher 5/8
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3- CONTINUES: Concentrated capacities of R&D and IP ownership in HICs 4- CONTINUES: Dominance of the biomedical model via the standardization of the human form separate from historical, cultural, and political context 4/8
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1- CONTINUES: Private sector interests influencing developments in global health through extractivism, and with persistent regulatory gaps 2- CONTINUES: Philanthropic power facilitating private sector access 3/8
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What is avoided when #GlobalHealth prioritizes technological solutions to problems with deep-seated political, economic, and commercial determinants? To answer this, we develop seven areas where AI both continues and disrupts past tech legacies 2/8
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By continuing to fail to address deeper #PoliticalDeterminantsOfHealth, #EconomicDeterminantsOfHealth, and #CommercialDeterminantsOfHealth, albeit at times differently than its tech predecessors, AI engages in the #PoliticsOfAvoidance 8/8
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7- AI adoption requires infrastructure investments (e.x. electric grids & Internet), reminiscent of challenges faced and yet-to-be-fixed by other tech, such as ultra-cold chain vaccine storage. However, incentives to mine health data may overcome these barriers. 7/8
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6-CONTINUES, DISRUPTS: Fixing health workforce shortages w/ AI continues to ignore deep drivers of these shortages; ex: HIC immigration policies designed to attract LMIC talent. But, brain drain may be different under AI, as jobs shift sector from LMIC med, to HIC med-tech. 6/8
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