Hacking Global Health London

ODSC Team

<IMG SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/153845002/logocmykred300dpi28129.jpg">
 
 
<IMG SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/153845002/odsclogoblue28229.png">
 
Join us for Hacking Global Health Hackathon with 150 other data scientists, engineers and developers in the London area.
Learn more at <A HREF="https://www.odsc.com/hack/hacking-global-health-london" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.odsc.com/hack/hacking-global-health-london</A>.
Hacking Global Health Schedule of Events:
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.meetup.com/London-ODSC/events/233207546/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Monday, September 12th: Pre-Hackathon Warmup #1</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.meetup.com/London-ODSC/events/233207562/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tuesday, September 27th: Pre-Hackathon Warmup #2</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.meetup.com/London-ODSC/events/233236148/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Friday, October 7th: Global Health Hackathon #3</A></LI>
</UL>
Hacking Global Health
History (and scientific literature) teaches us that under good environmental conditions, on average, children of any ethnic background have approximately the same growth potential.
In 2011, stunted (shortness for age) growth affected 165 million children.  Stunted growth may increase morbidity, mortality, physical impairment, cognitive impairment, limited productivity, and poverty.  In Africa and Asia, 11% national economic productivity is lost to undernutrition.
Guided by the belief that all lives have equal value, the Gates Foundation’s vision is to ensure a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life. The Foundation's Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development knowledge integration (HBGDki) initiative is a global data-driven project. We have integrated many data sets about child growth and development into a large knowledge base. We are using these data sets to learn about factors that stop body and brain growth, and to develop optimal solutions.
Currently, the organization has acquired data on 9.5 million children from 122 individual studies across 25 countries.  Data has been collated from longitudinal (>12 million subject records), cross-sectional, and survey data sources along with over a thousand clinical covariates of interest.
We are looking at innovative ways to develop predictive personalized public health models to help us identify the right therapeutic/preventive interventions, in the right dosage, for the right child, at the right time, to get the right response and avoid the adverse outcomes in childhood and adulthood.
Speakers
<IMG SRC="https://s.evbuc.com/https_proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fphotos1.meetupstatic.com%2Fphotos%2Fevent%2F1%2F5%2F2%2F2%2F600_452825410.jpeg&sig=ADR2i78lTbt4ZuN4DZSaPv_INfSFahFgcw">
 
ERIC OHUMA, MSC (Presenting September 12th) 
Medical Statistician, INTERGROWTH-21st Project Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology / Center for Statistics in Medicine University of Oxford Oxford, UK Eric is a Medical Statistician and holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Statistics from Maseno University, Kenya, and a MSc in Medical Statistics from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK.  He is currently pursuing a Dphil (PhD) at the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (NDOG), University of Oxford, carrying out research on statistical issues in the study of fetal, preterm and neonatal growth.  Eric has previously worked at the Kenya Medical ResearchInstitute (KEMRI)/Wellcome Trust Research center, Kilifi, Kenya as a Medical Statistician providing support to research scientists on various projects and offering statistical trainings.  He joined NDOG in September 2010 working with Professor Douglas Altman on the INTERGROWTH-21st project whose primary objective is the production of international standards for fetal, newborn, preterm postnatal growth, and gestational weight gain.
 
<IMG SRC="https://s.evbuc.com/https_proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fphotos4.meetupstatic.com%2Fphotos%2Fevent%2F1%2F5%2F4%2Fe%2F600_452825454.jpeg&sig=ADR2i7_C4eLkN3zRX4P6h_C9Rdj1ceiUrw">
SOFIA TROMMLEROVÁ (Presenting October 7th) PhD student Department of International Economics Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland Sofia is a development economist with a particular interest in applied micro-econometrics, child health, economic demography, gender, and human development.  She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Göttingen in Germany.  Currently she is a PhD student at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, and a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands.  Sofia’s articles have been published in Demography, World Development, and Economics and Human Biology.  Outside of academia, Sofia worked as a consultant for the World Bank (different projects) and Overseas Development Institute (ODI).  Currently she is part of the Policy, Delivery & Implementation Surge Team within the Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development knowledge integration (HBGDki) initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Hotel Novotel London West

Our {communityGuidelinesLink} describe the sort of content we prohibit on Eventbrite. If you suspect an event may be in violation, you can report it to us so we can investigate.

To report other categories of prohibited or illegal content, submit {link}

Hacking Global Health London

More events from ODSC Team

Discover more events from ODSC Team, from Science & Tech to other experiences you might love.

Hacking Global Health London

More events from ODSC Team

Discover more events from ODSC Team, from Science & Tech to other experiences you might love.

You might also like...

Browse more events with different dates, prices, and formats to find your next great experience.