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.
COVID-19 AI and Data Analytics Awards
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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