SINGAPORE - Artificial intelligence has been touted along with other strategies to be the future of pandemic prevention and response at the 7th World One Health Congress in Singapore.
Leveraging AI, IDentif.AI can collect and analyse patient data to determine the most effective combinations of various drugs and their dosages to combat diseases such as Covid-19. Prof Ho urged the medical community to collaborate in predicting pathogens that could cause the next pandemic, and allow IDentif.AI to run experiments on them using combinations of currently available drug therapies.
The day opened with a keynote speech by Dr Manuela Ferro, regional vice-president for East Asia and Pacific at the World Bank, where she highlighted the importance of the One Health approach of investing in preparednessAgreeing with her, Dr Martien van Nieuwkoop, the global director for Food and Agriculture at the World Bank who chaired the session, called for countries to adopt a multisectoral approach requiring the various ministries of a country to collaborate towards a pandemic response.
Obey. One world. One health. Centralised.