This Project Grant award for $499,530.00 was issued on September 1, 2024 by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Human Genome Research (CFDA 93.172) federal grant program. The funding supports a 3-year research project at The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to assess how diversity and representation are conceptualized and implemented in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) datasets for healthcare applications.
The key objectives of this project are to: 1) Evaluate data scientists' concepts and practices related to diversity and representation in creating AI-focused healthcare datasets through document reviews and interviews with approximately 100 investigators from 50 NIH-funded AI research projects; and 2) Develop and disseminate practical, evidence-informed guidance to support fairness and mitigate bias in AI-driven healthcare development. The research will leverage the "inclusion-and-difference paradigm" and a "microethics" perspective to examine how different stakeholders define and operationalize diversity and representation in the context of fair AI systems for healthcare.
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