Digital Health Equity: Local Empowerment, Global Alignment
YSPH has launched an ambitious strategic plan, which includes a revitalized mission statement: linking science and society, making public health foundational to communities everywhere. One of the key strategic priorities focuses on shaping the future of public health data science and AI. The newly launched Public Health Data Science and Data Equity initiative aspires to make data science knowledge, tools, and resources available to communities near and far, promoting equitable scientific discoveries, policy decisions, public health practice, and healthcare.
This conference, generously supported by the Yale MacMillan Center, and co-organized with the Yale Institute of Foundation of Data Science (FDS) was a continuation of this vision.
The conference brought together a diverse group of leaders from academia, government, healthcare, and industry. Over the course of this two-day event, we focused on four thematic areas:
- Data equity and digital health solutions
- Privacy approaches for digital health equity and representation
- The future of digital health and artificial intelligence in India
- Health equity in action: the role of scalable data products and services
2025 Steering Committee Members
| Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD | Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity; Ana M.R Lauder Professor of Biostatistics; Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Statistics and Data Science |
| Brian Wahl, PhD, MPH | Assistant Professor of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health |
| Forrest W. Crawford, PhD | Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Associate Professor of Management, and Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science |
| Kaakpema “KP” Yelpaala, MPH | Senior Fellow and Lecturer and Faculty Director, Future of Health Innovation Hub, Yale School of Public Health |
| Terika McCall, PhD | Assistant Professor, Biostatistics (Health Informatics Division), Yale School of Public Health, secondary faculty at the Yale School of Medicine’s Biomedical Informatics & Data Science Section; Director of the Consumer Health Informatics Lab (CHIL) at Yale |