Hacking Global Health London

Join us for Hack Global Health Hackathon with 150 other data scientists, engineers and developers in the NYC area.

Learn more at http://www.hack.odsc.com.

Hacking Global Health Schedule of Events:

• Monday, September 12th:  Pre-Hackathon Warmup #1

• Tuesday, September 27th:   Pre-Hackathon Warmup #2

• Friday, October 7th:  Hackthon #3

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.

The HBGDki initiative is the largest in the world project that focuses on collection of children's growth data and environmental factors to provide insights using data science.  HBGDki has integrated >400 data sets from diverse, focused studies into a larger body of knowledge. The purposes of integrating multidisciplinary data are to understand fully the effects of risk factors on growth outcomes and develop effective solutions.

Currently, the organization has collected data on 15 MLN children from 200 countries of up to 6K variables per child.  Data has been collated from longitudinal (>10 million subject records), cross-sectional, and survey data sources (totaling >250 million subject records from 200 countries) along with clinical covariates of interest.

We are looking at innovative ways to develop predictive personalized public health models to help us identify the right therapeutic/prevention interventions, in the right dosage, for the right child, at the right time, to get the right response and avoid the adverse outcomes in child- or adulthood.

Sign up for the pre-hackathon overview on September 12th and September 27th: 

Speakers

ERIC OHUMA, MSC

Medical Statistician, INTERGROWTH-21st Project
Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology / 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 Gynaecology (NDOG), University of Oxford, carrying out research on statistical issues in the studyof 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.

JONAS HÄGGSTRÖM. PHD

Drug Developer/Statistician
Holy Diver Consulting
Stockholm Sweden

Jonas is an experienced drug developer with experience from both academia, industry and organizations. He holds a BSc in Statistics and Economics, and a PhD in Statistics, from Umeå University, Sweden. Jonas previous appointments include:  Food and Agriculture Organization, Quintiles Sweden, Genentech Inc, AstraZeneca, and Cognizant Technology Solution.  As theNeuroscience Therapeutic Area Statistical Expert at AstraZeneca Jonas lead and manage the Neuroscience biostatistics department, and provided, over therapy areas and projects, input tothe drug development strategy across all phase of drug development. Currently Jonas serves asan expert statistical consultant to the Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development knowledgeintegration (HBGDki) initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an expert evaluator to the European Commission, and a part-time researcher at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Sweden

SOFIA TROMMLEROVÁ

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, childhealth, 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 GraduateInstitute 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.