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Large-scale multi-modal information on patients’ health is ever increasing, providing an opportunity to use big data for taking individualized medicine to a global scale.

Healthcare is an imperfect practice, with disparities in care reflecting those in society. While algorithms may be misued to amplify biases, they may also be used to identify and correct disparities.

Global health organization seeks to vet digital tools as it does vaccines and drugs.

A decade after its launch, H3Africa seeks to grow its local bioinformatics capacity.

From asthma inhalers to blood-pressure monitors, companies with high-tech approaches are amassing and analyzing giant new data sources.

Xiling Shen is the Hawkins Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Woo Center for Big Data and Precision Health at Duke University. He is a National Science Foundation early-career awardee, chair of the National Cancer Institute’s Patient-Derived Models of Cancer consortium and an Israeli faculty fellow.

As medical students, we have a responsibility to our future patients, but our training is not preparing us for healthcare provision in the era of climate change, say Areeb Mian and Shujhat Khan.