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COVID-19 AI and data analytics awards

Nonprofits, universities and other academic institutions around the world have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to help us better understand COVID-19 and its impact on communities-especially vulnerable populations and healthcare workers. To support this work, Google.org partnered with Google Research to give more than $8.5 million to 31 organizations around the world to aid in COVID-19 response.

Previous years:

  • 2020

Monitoring and forecasting disease spread

Ryan Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University, recipient of a Google.org Fellowship

Hiroaki Miyata, Keio University

Ingemar Cox and Vasileios Lampos, University College London

John Brownstein, Moritz Kraemer, and Sam Scarpino; Boston Children's Hospital, Oxford University, Northeastern University, recipient of a Google.org Fellowship

Meir Feder, Uri Obolski, Daniel Nevo, and Amit Huppert; Tel Aviv University

Francisca Oladipo, Mark Musen, Mirjam van Reisen, and Erik Schultes; Kampala International University, Stanford University, Leiden University, GO FAIR

Improving health equity and minimizing secondary effects of the pandemic

Daniel Dawes, Morehouse School of Medicine’s Satcher Health Leadership Institute, recipient of a Google.org Fellowship

Richard Aló and Dorothy Browne; Florida A&M University, Shaw University

Jonathan Levy, Patricia Fabian, Kevin Lane, and Jessica Leibler; Boston University School of Public Health

Kari North and Piper Below; University of North Carolina, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Jennifer Stevens, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Andrea Grimes Parker, Georgia Institute of Technology

Nicola Dell, Tom Ristenpart, and Diana Freed; Cornell Tech

Tiffany Veinot, Vinod Vydiswaran, Lorraine Buis, and Anna Laurie; University of Michigan School of Information

Nipun Batra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

Immanuel Trummer and Paolo Papotti; Cornell University, EURECOM

Slowing transmission by advancing the science of contact tracing and environmental sensing

Lalitha Sankar, Arizona State University

Mary Wootters, Stanford University

Madhav Marathe, Anil Vullikanti, Simon Levin, and Aravind Srinivasan; University of Virginia, Princeton University, University of Maryland

Luis Ceze, University of Washington

Rajesh Sundaresan, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Grégoire Montavon, Klaus-Robert Müller and Alexandre Tkatchenko; TU Berlin, University of Luxembourg

Supporting healthcare workers

Medic Mobile and Dimagi

Global Strategies

C Minds

Edson Amaro Jr and Elisa Harumi Kozasa, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Mauricio Lima Barreto and Marcos Ennes Barreto; Fiocruz Bahia, Federal University of Bahia

RAD-AID

Korean Doctors on the Cloud, Yonsei University College of Medicine

Daniel Fletcher and Melanie Ott, University of California Berkeley and Gladstone Institutes

Diego Sona, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia