Towards Equitable and Inclusive AI in Health and Oral Health Care
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to transform healthcare, but its full potential demands that equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are built in from the start. Currently, there’s no clear roadmap for developers and health systems to embed EDI across the AI lifecycle.
Join us as we explore the EDAI framework, a practical, internationally-developed guide that provides actionable guidance for integrating EDI at individual, organizational, and systemic levels. Whether you're an AI researcher, clinician, policymaker, or EDI practitioner, you will learn how the EDAI ensures AI systems are not just technically robust, but also socially responsible and equitable in real-world health and oral health settings.
Featured Speaker
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Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi, PhD
Dr. Samira A. Rahimi, B.Eng, PhD, is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in AI and Advanced Digital Primary Health Care. She is an assistant professor at McGill University, Co-Director of McGill’s Collaborative for AI and Society (McCAIS), and an Associate Academic Member of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. She also serves as Research Co-Director of the General Practice Residency (GPR) program in dentistry at the Jewish General Hospital.
With an interdisciplinary background, her research, supported by national and international funding, focuses on developing and implementing advanced digital health technologies—including AI-enabled tools—to improve primary health care. She is particularly committed to improving care for vulnerable and underserved populations, ensuring that innovation benefits everyone.
Her work as Principal Investigator has been funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Roche Canada, Brocher Foundation (Switzerland), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2022 Marjorie Bowman and Robert Choplin New Investigator Award, an award that recognizes exceptional contributions by emerging investigators in the field of primary care research.
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Who Should Attend
This session is designed for healthcare and oral health AI researchers, clinicians, policymakers, EDI practitioners, and anyone interested in advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in AI.
Key Takeaways
- Understand the EDAI framework structure and how EDI principles are integrated into the AI lifecycle.
- Learn about barriers and facilitators to embedding EDI in AI.
- Acquire strategies and actionable guidance for implementing equitable AI practices.