Calendar of Events

February 13-15, 2024

AIM-AHEAD Hawaii/Pacific Islands Community and Stakeholder Engagement

Dear colleagues from Hawaii/Guam/American Samoa/N. Mariana Islands

The AIM-AHEAD program (www.aim-ahead.net) will be launching many new programs for 2024, in addition to the ongoing 7 programs that were launched in the first two years. There are numerous opportunities to engage in our consortium.

A Hawaii/Pacific Island Stakeholder and Community Engagement meeting is planned for February 13-15, 2024 in Honolulu, HI. The goal of this program is to provide information about AIM-AHEAD programs, resources and networking opportunities. There will be two grant writing workshops: One for new stakeholders and one for stakeholders who need to revise their previously submitted applications to AIM-AHEAD

The location of the meeting will be decided shortly. In the meantime, I am requesting you to place a hold on your calendar to attend the Honolulu meeting. We will provide you a registration link in order for you to reserve your spot. There is no registration fee.

June 29, 2023, 9am - 12pm

Hybrid Event  - Advancing Health Equity: Building a Framework for Ethical AI Interactive Sessions

The Center for Urban Health Equity will host a conference focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The focus of the conference will be the ethics of AI – building a framework. 

Location: Morgan State University, Behavioral & Social Science Center Building, Rm 512-514 

June 14, 2023, 10am - 11am PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

June 12, 2023, 10am - 11am PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

June 7, 2023, 10am - 11am PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

June 5, 2023, 12pm - 1pm PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

June 1, 2023, 8am - 9am PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

May 31, 2023, 10am - 11am PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

May 24, 2023, 10am - 11am PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

May 22, 2023, 12pm - 1pm PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

May 18, 2023, 8am - 9am PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

May 18, 2023, 3–4 pm CT

Ethics Discussion Forum: Health Data Privacy and its Impact on Representation and Algorithmic Fairness

Without data, there is no modern artificial intelligence. However, getting access to data, and particularly data about a person’s biology or healthcare, can be difficult. Many factors limit health data sharing on a broad scale, with privacy being one of the principles most voiced as a concern. Our society, and the organizations that function with it, have devised a number of strategies for managing the tradeoff between health data privacy and accessibility. These include, but are certainly not limited to, 

• creating online data enclaves where users are limited by the program languages and computing infrastructure support (e.g., pay per compute in the cloud), 
• entering into contractual agreements with data controllers, which can be onerous to establish, maintain, and manage, and 
• subjecting data to de-identification practices that reduce the likelihood that the identity of the individuals to whom the data corresponds will be recognized. 

In this ethics discussion forum, we will walk through some of these strategies, as well as examples of how data sharing practices have been realized historically. Along the way, we will discuss how the tradeoffs inherent in these strategies can affect,

• which researchers have access to these data and 
• the extent to which the resulting datasets can (and cannot) support health equity research

Discussion Host:

May 17, 2023, 10am - 11am PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

May 15, 2023, 12pm - 1pm PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

May 15, 2023, 10am - 11am PT

DRC/OCHIN Office Hours

The AIM-AHEAD Data and Research Core (DRC) team will be holding office hours twice a week from 5/15 – 6/19. The office hours will be set up for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows and Call for Proposal applicants to meet and consult with the DRC and OCHIN team as they work on their proposals, discuss OCHIN datasets, and any other needs related to AIM-AHEAD Y2 projects.

May 11, 2023, 3pm - 4pm CST

Leadership Fellowship Cohort #2 Informational Webinar

Please register and attend this informational Zoom webinar to learn more about the Leadership Fellowship Cohort #2 Informational Webinar funding opportunities and ask questions you may have.

May 23 - June 23, 2023

AIM-AHEAD's Health Equity Data Challenge

High Risk Breast Cancer Prediction and Health Equity Data Challenge

DSTC and Nightingale Open Science developed this challenge as a training and outreach opportunity for underrepresented students in AI/ML.

The goal of this challenge is to improve the prediction of the cancer stage in minority patient’s cancers above a baseline score derived from all patients, using only the whole slide images generated by a breast biopsy.

Triple negative breast cancers constitute 15% to 20% of breast cancers and have higher incidence in African American and Hispanic women, with African Americans facing worse outcomes than other race and ethnic groups. [2] Determining the stage helps doctors determine how to move forward with treatment.

Event page:
https://www.aim-ahead.net/data-science-training-core/2023-health-equity-data-challenge/