Joel Selanikio
Former WHO Advisor | Transforming Global Health with Technology
About
Dr. Joel Selanikio is an award-winning innovator who has revolutionized public health and disaster response.
As a former advisor to the World Health Organization, he pioneered the use of mobile technology to deliver healthcare in underserved communities. Selanikio co-created the award-winning Magpi digital data collection platform, which has been used in over 170 countries.
He has been recognized with the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability and the $50,000 Tech Museum Award for Innovation. Selanikio's keynotes provide a unique perspective on how emerging technologies can address critical global challenges.
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The big-data revolution in health care
Collecting global health data is an imperfect science: Workers tramp through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, write the answers on paper forms, then input the data -- and from this messy, gappy information, countries and NGOs need to make huge decisions. Data geek Joel Selanikio talks through the sea change in collecting health data in the past decade -- starting with the PalmPilot and Hotmail, and now moving into the cloud.
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