8 results for ‘AI in health’

Supporting health research – getting AI ready

16 April 2024

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) - such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, or DeepMind's AlphaFold - have shown AI as a transformative force in many areas including health and biomedical research, and healthcare. AI has enormous potential to speed up diagnoses, help discover new drugs, assist surgeries, and deliver therapies and treatments. But with this rapid revolutionising of the healthcare field comes a pressing need to develop these technologies in an ethical, safe, and sustainable way.

The new frontier - AI’s role in healthcare 

25 September 2024

The University of Bristol has recently won two awards at the National AI Awards. The field of healthcare is one in which AI shows considerable promise. Learn about AI in Health projects we have recently supported which are advancing the capabilities of AI in healthcare.

World Health Day 2023: health research is about all, by all, and for all

7 April 2023

Friday 7 April 2023 is ‘World Health Day’: an annual event hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO). This year, it marks exactly 75 years since the WHO’s foundation: a chance to take stock of great work done and the challenges that remain ahead. The theme of this year’s World Health Day is ‘Health For All’, which centres health as a human right and the importance of good health for everyone’s fulfilment. Here, Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Director, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, reflects on what health research is, and how it's contributing to achieving health for all.

Facts, fakes, society and health: Professor Patricia Kingori

30 January 2024

We were delighted to welcome University of Oxford’s Professor Patricia Kingori for our tenth annual public lecture on 22 January 2024. The sold out event filled the beautiful City Hall in Bristol, with a mix of staff and students from the University, people working in health and care, and members of the public.

Meet our new awardees

28 June 2023

In April 2023 we launched a rapid research funding call for interdisciplinary health research. The aim was to support health-related research in any context, including: equitable and sustainable health; climate, environment and health; infectious disease research; mental health; and transformative technologies for health. Below you'll find details of the researchers and projects we will be supporting.

Smart Digital Assistants – a glimpse into the future of the GP surgery?

28 November 2023

With the pressures that the National Health Service and primary care in particular are under, the use of new technologies might permit General Practitioners to deliver better care in the short time they are allocated to each patient.

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Investigating Innovation, Safety and Liability

14 November 2023

We were delighted to welcome Vera Lúcia Raposo, Assistant Professor of Law and Technology at Nova School of Law (Lisbon, Portugal), the leading researcher at the FutureHealthLaw, to Bristol in October 2023. During her visit, she delivered a series of in-person interdisciplinary interactive seminars on 10, 16 and 17 October 2023, exploring the use of new technologies in healthcare.

Dementia and cancer connections

20 November 2024

Could there be connections between having cancer and a reduction in dementia risk? This is something various studies are currently looking into.