Lecture series 2018/2019: improving patient & population health through innovative e-health interventions

December 17, 2018

SPEAKER
Dr Guy Fagherazzi
Senior research scientist in digital epidemiology, Center of Research in Epidemiology and Population Health in Villejuif, France

LECTURE from 11h30 to 12h30
CHL - Centre 4, rue Ernest Barblé L-1210 Luxembourg Room: Amphitheatre

MEET THE SPEAKER* from 12h25 to 14h00
Light snacks provided LIH, 1A-B, rue Thomas Edison L-1445 Strassen Room: Curie/Pasteur (3^rd floor)
*Registration is mandatory to meet the speaker by sending an email to tania.zamboni@lih.lu

e-Health & e-Epidemiology: how to improve population health in age of digital and artificial intelligence?

ABSTRACT
e-Health is a constantly evolving ?eld referring to the organization and delivery of health services and information using the Internet and related technologies such as smartphone apps, connected devices but also social media. Data generated online by an individual - which can be summarized under the concept of “digitosome” - constitutes, by the quantity and the variety of information it represents, a great potential to 1) deeply modify the way we practice epidemiology and public health and 2) improve population health. While epidemiology, as practiced today, will still continue to be practiced in the future, there is also a need to rethink how to optimally integrate these data to tackle current medical research challenges.
During this conference, Guy Fagherazzi will discuss the evolution of the ?eld of epidemiology, present some key research initiatives combining innovative sources of information such as social media or connected devices with more traditional epidemiological and clinical data and will also illustrate how Arti?cial Intelligence methods can be leveraged in the context of population health research to help developing the future of public health studies and interventions.