The Innovation Forum AI Podcast

🎙️ Episode Title What Good AI Governance for Public Health Actually Requires --- 🧠 Episode Summary Anne Makena has spent nearly a decade building equitable research partnerships between Oxford and African institutions, co-creating the African AI Governance Index, and launching Research Alpha to strengthen the evidence base behind AI investment in health. In this episode she brings all of that exp...

🎙️ Episode Title From Genomes to Governance: Lessons from India on Building AI-Ready Public Health Systems --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Anurag Agrawal, Professor and Dean of Biosciences and Health Research at Ashoka University in New Delhi. A physician-scientist with deep experience in respiratory biology, genomics, and data-d...

🎙️ Episode Title African Data for African Health: Building the AI Foundations the Continent Needs --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode, Oliver Morgan speaks with Agnes Kiragga, Head of the Data Science Program at the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Drawing on over two decades of experience building data systems and leading large-scale multi-country initiatives ac...

🎙️ Episode Title Beyond the Genome: Tracking Climate-Driven Epidemic Risk with AI --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Houriiyah Tegally, Associate Professor and Head of Data Science at the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), Stellenbosch University. Drawing on her work tracking viral pathogens across Africa — includin...

🎙️ Episode Title AI, qualitative data, and the case for statistical rigour --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Adam Kucharski, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Co-Founder of WholeSum. Drawing on decades of experience working with messy, incomplete data — from contact...

🎙️ Episode Title AI, Genomics, and the Future of Public Health Surveillance --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Túlio de Lima Campos, Bioinformatics Core Facility Coordinator at Fiocruz in Brazil. Túlio explains how combining genomic sequencing with artificial intelligence is transforming what public health surveillance can see and d...

🎙️ Episode Title Using AI to Strengthen Infectious Disease Surveillance Systems --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Swapnil Mishra, from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Swapnil explains how AI and infectious disease modelling can move beyond academic exercises and become embedded within real public health workflows. Drawi...

🎙️ Episode Title Putting Problem-Driven AI into Practice in a European Public Health Agency --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver speaks with Laura Espinosa, Epidemic Intelligence Expert at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), about what it really means to apply AI inside a European public health agency. Rather than starting wit...

🎙️ Episode Title Building a Grounded Approach to AI in Public Health Surveillance --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Samuel Scarpino, Professor of Public Health and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, Director of AI and Life Sciences at the Institute for Experiential AI and External Professor at Santa Fe Institute, about wha...

🎙️ Episode Title Clinical AI, Equity, and Preparedness in Resource-Limited Health Systems --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Dr. Zainab Samad, Chair of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Health Data Science Center at Aga Khan University in Pakistan. Zainab shares how artificial intelligence is being applied in real-world...

🎙️ Episode Title Human–AI Collaboration for Early Outbreak Detection --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Yannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University, about how artificial intelligence is reshaping public health decision-making. Yannis explains how...

🎙️ Episode Title Democratizing AI Talent for Real-World Problem Solving --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Celina Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Zindi, the largest platform for data scientists and AI developers across Africa. Celina describes how Zindi connects a growing pool of young talent with real-world problems through artificial i...

🎙️ Episode Title AI-Driven Behavioral Simulation for Better Public Health Decisions --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Dr. Serina Chang, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, whose work blends AI, human behavior, and public health. Serina explains how mobility data, search logs, and generative AI can uncover how people actually behave...

🎙️ Episode Title Public Health through the Lens of AI and Population Dynamics --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of *The Innovation Forum AI Podcast*, Oliver Morgan speaks with Gautam Prasad, Software Engineer at Google Research, whose work focuses on geospatial machine learning and the Population Dynamics Foundation Model — a new AI framework designed to fill data gaps and improve population-...

🎙️ Episode Title Making Sense of AI and the Opportunities for Public Health --- 🧠 Episode Summary In this episode of The Innovation Forum AI Podcast, Oliver Morgan speaks with Dr. Kene David Nwosu, Epidemiologist and Data Scientist at the University of Geneva’s Institute for Global Health and co-founder of The Graph Courses, a non-profit initiative teaching AI and data science for health professi...