Build it to Scale: How AI and ML Could Advance Gender Equality, 'Decolonize' and End the Need for Aid
AI, Conflict, Foreign policy, Gender, Inequality, Sustainability Sabs K. Quereshi is a senior-level expert with 16+ years of experience in global health and infectious diseases, foreign policy, gender equity, national security, humanitarian assistance, climate resilience, disaster preparedness & response, and multilateral affairs sectors in the U.S., with the UN, and worldwide. She is the former Director at the Rockefeller Foundation's Health Initiatives Div., and former Advisor to the United Nations Health and Immunizations, Emergencies, and Communications divisions in NY HQ as well as the Middle East and Africa country offices. She has previously served as a Humanitarian Policy Advisor and Acting Team Lead at the USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, covering issues related to humanitarian assistance and UN system reform, Ebola outbreaks, food insecurity, global health partnerships and donor government engagement. Previously, Ms. Quereshi worked as a Senior Health Advisor and COVID-19 Racial Equity Task Force Lead to the California Surgeon General and Governor Newsom's Office, WHO/IRC health cluster lead in Syria for 10+ relief organizations at height of the Syrian civil war, Ebola + Zika + Measles outbreak expert in West Africa, South America and South Sudan, respectively; interagency emergency lead for the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, investigative epidemiologist for U.S. DHHS and even spent time advising Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on U.S. health care reform during the Bush Administration & the 110th Congress. She has published articles in academic journals ranging from Johns Hopkins University to Harvard’s Belfer Center and contributed to congressional testimonies for USAID Administrators, USUN ambassadors, Secretaries of State and HHS, and online media publications. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and holds an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School, M.P.H. in Health Policy from George Washington University, and B.S. in Biomedical Science from Marquette University. She is a recovering neuroscientist, a proud native of Wisconsin, multilingual in six languages, and an advocate for building climate resilience, private-public partnerships, global health equity and inclusion, innovative tech and health finance solutions, and meeting the SDGs commitments worldwide. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
