Meeting

In-Person DC Roundtable: Building Trust: Dr. Atul Gawande on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Global Health

Monday, December 16, 2024
Speaker
Atul Gawande

Assistant Administrator for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development

Presider
Thomas J. Bollyky

Bloomberg Chair in Global Health; Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law, and Development; and Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations

from Global Health, Economics, and Development Roundtable Series and Global Health Program

Dr. Atul Gawande, assistant administrator for Global Health USAID, discusses the future of global health with Thomas Bollyky, inaugural Bloomberg Chair in Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. In particular, Dr. Gawande examines the role of artificial intelligence, the importance of building government trust, and USAID’s key accomplishments since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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