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Algorithmic decision-making in Clinical Care: Evidence, Equity, and Economics Across Health Systems
Algorithmic decision-making in Clinical Care:
Evidence, Equity, and Economics Across Health Systems
As algorithmic decision-making tools—ranging from traditional rule-based models to advanced AI systems that learn from data—become integral to clinical care, understanding their real-world impact is more crucial than ever. This panel brings together experts to explore the evidence behind effectiveness, scalability, and equity of these applications across diverse healthcare settings—from high-income to low- and middle-income countries. Panellists will share insights on methodological challenges, lessons from implementation, and offer perspectives on what is needed to ensure these technologies are safely and effectively integrated into diverse health systems.
Date: Friday 30 May, 5:00 AM- 6:00 AM UTC+0
5pm Auckland, 3pm Melbourne, 12pm Bangkok, 7am Zurich, 6am London.
Moderators
A/Prof Marco Liverani (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Dr Susan J. Méndez (University of Melbourne)
Speakers
Dr. Christopher Chew
Christopher Chew is a Clinical Researcher at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand and the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford, UK. He is also the Director of Medical Services and a Senior Staff Specialist in Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine at Canberra Hospital in Australia. His current research focuses on defining the epidemiology of acute fever in rural South and Southeast Asia, as well as exploring cost-effective and context-appropriate ways to improve its clinical and public health management. His clinical and research interests are linked by the common theme of generating evidence-based solutions to the most pressing health problems affecting under-served and under-resourced populations, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Originally from Malaysia, Dr Chew graduated in Medicine from the University of Cambridge in 2007 and attained Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2015. He has additional qualifications in epidemiology, biostatistics, and population health through Masters’ degrees in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford and in Public Health from the University of New South Wales.
Dr. Abhijit Mishra
Dr. Abhijit Mishra is a dedicated research physician at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Thailand, He contributes to the recent advances in Infectious Disease. Currently serving as the Site Coordinator for the EDAM Project in Cambodia.
He is strongly committed to optimizing treatment strategies. Dr. Mishra is actively involved in the SEADOT (South East Asian Dose Optimization for Tafenoquine) study and also works on social science research on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Cambodia to address pressing global health challenges.
Bringing over a decade of frontline medical experience, Dr. Mishra has served as a Medical Doctor in remote Nepal, delivering essential healthcare in underserved communities.
Dr. Portia Cornell
Dr. Cornell is Senior Research Fellow in Digital Health Technology Assessment at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Digital Transformation of Health and the Centre for Health Policy. She is a health economist and health services researcher whose program of research focuses on the evaluation, cost-effectiveness, and financing of digital health tools, particularly their impacts on vulnerable populations such as rural, older adults, and those with social risk factors. She was previously a research scientist at the U.S. Veterans Administration, where she led an evaluation of a national allied-health staffing program and the design and piloting of digital tools to support social workers in the health team, and an assistant professor at Brown University, where she has worked on Medicaid policy and measurement of aged care quality using Medicare data.
Dr. Kit Huckvale
Dr Kit Huckvale is a Senior Research Fellow in Digital Health at the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health and leads The Validitron, the University of Melbourne’s healthtech studio. The Validitron is a unique team of clinical and research experts in digital health implementation, UX/human factors validation, health economics, and evaluation. The studio works globally with healthcare organisations, start-ups and larger enterprises, government, researchers, and clinician innovators on projects ranging from virtual care to clinical AI. It offers expertise in implementation science, service design, and human factors, using innovative methods, such as simulation-based research, to accelerate validation and evidence generation.
Kit is a trained medical doctor and informatician with a PhD in eHealth from Imperial College London. His research focuses on the design, quality and safety of consumer-facing mobile health technologies such as smartphone apps and the development and evaluation of platforms to support research and innovation. He has worked with Microsoft Research Cambridge, Novartis and the UK Department of Health on translational projects, including the evaluation of clinical decision support systems and computer vision systems for disease progression assessment.
