Enhancing Global Public Health through Computer Science and Information Technologies

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2021 | 12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. CST

Presented by Dr. Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Professor of Computer Science and Director of Ubicomp Lab at Marquette University; Md Hasanul Aziz, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University; Dr. Richard Love, Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University

Learn how Marquette’s Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) Lab is bringing computer science into the service of man. With projects using the full range of information technology tools, Professor Ahamed's lab is developing signature initiatives in global public health in Palliative medicine – with a cell phone and web app systems for home care in Nepal, Bangladesh and Nigeria; in measurement and management of Long Covid and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome symptoms with a package of sensory tools; and in the creation of noninvasive fingertip cell phone video systems for measurement of blood hemoglobin, white blood count, creatinine and hemoglobin A1c levels.

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