Artificial Intelligence and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Review

Project Status:Complete

Knowledge User(s)

Public Health Agency of Canada

Patient/Public Partner(s)

Juanita García, Sandra Moroz

Project Trainee(s)

Juan Camilo Martínez, Ana Maria Perez-Gutierrez

Funding Source(s)

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through COVID-END

Project Objectives

To provide evidence on where artificial intelligence and emerging digital technologies can potentially add value in COVID-19 responses to mitigate, control, or prevent COVID-19 and its consequences.

Research Approach

Rapid Review

Project Lead(s)

Ivan Florez

Position: University of Antioquia, McMaster University
Email: ivan.florez@udea.edu.co

Pediatrician with a Master’s degree Clinical Epidemiology and a PhD in Health Research Methodology. He is full Professor at the Department of Pediatrics at University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia), and Assistant professor (part-time) at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada). He is the current leader of the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation (AGREE) Collaboration, Director of Cochrane Colombia, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Clinical and Public Health Guidelines journal. He is also Editorial Board member of the following Journals: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Pediatric Discovery, Cochrane Evidence Synthesis & Methods and the Journal of the American Heart Association. His research is focused on evidence synthesis methods, systematic reviews, network meta-analyses, clinical practice guidelines, and pediatrics.

Ivan Florez

University of Antioquia, McMaster University

Pediatrician with a Master’s degree Clinical Epidemiology and a PhD...