Elaine Okanyene Nsoesie

Elaine O. Nsoesie is an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health and a leading voice in the use of data and technology to advance health equity. She leads the Racial Data Tracker project at Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research and serves as a Senior Advisor to the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Nsoesie has published extensively on the use of data from social media, search engines, remote sensors and mobile phones for public health surveillance and the implications of bias in health data and algorithms. She is passionate about increasing representation of underrepresented communities in data science. She completed her PhD in Computational Epidemiology from Virginia Tech and held postdoctoral positions at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.