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AI4HealthyCities: Novartis Foundation reveals potential associations between social factors and heart health in New York City at UNGA 79
Novartis Foundation and research partners leverage cutting-edge AI to uncover connections between social determinants and cardiovascular health across New York City, revealing how urban life can… -
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New urban health 'accelerator' aims to transform cardiovascular population health globally
The CARDIO4Cities Accelerator by Novartis Foundation and IntraHealth International aims to replicate the successful CARDIO4Cities approach in 30 major cities within three years to transform… -
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Urban population health initiative delivers significant reductions in heart disease
Programs on three continents – in São Paulo, Dakar and Ulaanbataar – at least tripled blood pressure control rates, the prime risk factor for heart disease, within two years. ‘CARDIO4Cities’… -
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Global AI network aiming to improve urban heart health equity launches in New York City
AI4HealthyCities Health Equity Network from the Novartis Foundation, Microsoft AI for Health and NYU School of Global Public Health uses data and analytics to target heart health inequity… -
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New research reveals the critical actions needed to ensure COVID-19-driven surge in virtual health and care drives health access and equity
COVID-19 pandemic triggered massive surge in virtual health and care delivery across the world, with many countries embracing hybrid virtual and in-person services Report from the Broadband… -
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Artificial intelligence proves successful in accelerating leprosy detection
Researchers have developed an AI-enabled diagnostic assistant called AI4leprosy that could help leprosy patients access treatment faster An article published in The Lancet Regional Health –… -
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New HealthTech Hub aims to help entrepreneurs develop revolutionary tech for Africa’s growing health challenges
New support for innovations that transform healthcare for major health challenges: heart disease, breast cancer, and delivering virtual health services Thirty African start-ups will be hosted at… -
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Disease Elimination
Leprosy
Contact tracing with prophylactic treatment could near-eliminate leprosy in a single generation, new research suggests
Results from the Novartis Foundation-initiated Leprosy Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (LPEP) program covered more than 150,000 people across seven countries … -
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Population Health
Artificial Intelligence
Lower-income countries could soon leapfrog high-income countries with AI-enabled health technologies, Novartis Foundation and Microsoft backed report says
Investment in data and AI will be a key tool driving health system improvements during and after the COVID-19 pandemic Lower income countries could be the fastest adopters due to lack of legacy… -
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Population Health
Better Hearts Better Cities
Blood pressure check with your manicure? Communities for Healthy Hearts in Vietnam gets blood pressure in check through community mobilization, private-sector engagement, and strengthened primary health care
Communities for Healthy Hearts has brought hypertension screening closer to home, with screening points in convenient, everyday locations like markets, nail salons, coffee shops, and community… -
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Population Health
Digital
Novartis Foundation to focus fully on how digital, data and AI can transform global health
Basel, Switzerland, 8 July, 2019 – The Novartis Foundation is sharpening its focus to concentrate fully on reimagining how data, digital and AI can transform global health. This new… -
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Population Health
Digital
Digital health leaders gather at the World Health Assembly
Geneva, Switzerland, May 21 – Ministers of health and leaders from the global digital health sector gathered in Geneva for the Universal Health Coverage 2030: Creating a Global Digital Health…
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