SPEAKERS Tamara G. Kolda – MathSci.ai: ‘Is it safe to deploy AI in safety-critical systems?’ Desmond Higham – University of Edinburgh: ‘Can AI systems be secure?’ Ying Xiao – King’s College London: ‘Mitigating medical bias in large language models by prompt engineering: an empirical study of effectiveness and trade-offs’
AI is reshaping drug discovery, clinical trials, precision medicine and healthcare delivery, but building and deploying it at scale depends on high-quality data, computing power, energy and digital infrastructure, as well as on navigating fast-moving regulatory requirements. Part of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative’s Data Rules Project, the session brought together leaders from the biosciences industry, government and academia to ask how healthcare and pharmaceutical companies can build AI at scale while protecting patient trust, privacy, security and sustainability, and to weigh how the United States, China and other major technology markets are approaching these questions, and what their differing policy and infrastructure choices mean for pharmaceutical research and development, patient outcomes and US competitiveness.
WELCOME REMARKS Jenna Ben-Yehuda – Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council
SPEAKERS Ranjit Kumble – Vice President, Trusted AI, Pfizer Stephen Moon – Global Public Sector Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Snowflake Daria Bahrami – Head of Policy, Dreadnode Gil Alterovitz – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; President, Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation
MODERATORS Graham Brookie – Vice President, Atlantic Council Technology Programs, Atlantic Council Trey Herr – Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council
HOST Eric Roland Kuhn, PhD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Public Mental Health and Population Sciences)
8:15 AM – Opening Remarks Lloyd B. Minor, MD – The Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the School of Medicine, Vice President for Medical Affairs, Stanford University, Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Professor of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering, by courtesy Laura Roberts, MD, MA – Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor and Chair, Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Kilian M. Pohl, PhD – Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering; AI4MH Co-Director
8:30 AM – Keynote Panel Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD – Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Stanford University School of Medicine, AI4MH Co-Director Ehsan Adeli, PhD – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Biomedical Data Science; AI4MH Co-Director Brandon Staglin, MS – Co-Founder, Chief Advocacy & Engagement Officer of One Mind and Chair of the One Mind Lived Experience Council Vaile Wright, PhD – Senior Director for Health Care Innovation at the American Psychological Association
9:25 AM – Academic Research: Foundations & Frontiers Leanne Williams, PhD – Vincent V.C. Woo Professor and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator) Alexis Hiniker, PhD – Associate Professor, University of Washington Information School; Co-Director, Center for Digital Youth H. Andrew Schwartz, PhD – Associate Professor of Computer Science & Psychology, Vanderbilt University Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD – Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, AI4MH Associate Director, Stanford CREATE Center Director
10:20 AM – Break
10:40 AM – Industry & Translation: What It Takes to Deploy Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD – Kenneth Fong Professor and Professor of Bioengineering, of Genetics, of Medicine, of Biomedical Data Science, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science Sara Johansen, MD – Product Policy Lead for Mental Health and Well-Being, OpenAI Jina Suh, PhD, MS, MA – Principal Researcher, University of Washington, SafeMind Institute
11:25 AM – Policy & Ethics: Governing AI in Mental Health Michelle Mello, JD, PhD – Professor of Law and of Health Policy Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD – Assistant Professor (Research) of Pediatrics (Biomedical Ethics) and, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development) Jane P. Kim, PhD – Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, AI4MH Associate Director
12:20 PM – Closing Remarks Ehsan Adeli, PhD – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Biomedical Data Science; AI4MH Co-Director
On Wednesday April 15, 2026, at 14:00 EDT (18;00 UTC)the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB) will host a webinar, ‘Transforming Rural Health: Understanding and Leveraging the Rural Health Transformation Program‘. The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program (RHT Program) represents a major opportunity to strengthen rural healthcare systems. The purpose of the program is to transform the rural health ecosystem by strengthening care delivery, improving health outcomes, expanding access to essential services, and stabilizing the financial future of rural providers. This webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of the program, including what it funds and its overarching goals, and examine how various states are approaching implementation.
SPEAKERS Sarah Bauman – Director of Telehealth Services, Utah Education and Telehealth Network. Michael Wallace – Assistant Director, UAMS e-Link Shawn Daugherty – Principal, Digital Opportunity, HR&A Advisor Jordan Rogers – Director of Relationship Marketing, NCTNA
On April 13, 2026, at 10:00 PDT (17:00 UTC) the Dynamic Coalition on Data Driven Health Technologies (DC-DDHT) hosted a webinar ‘Quantum Technologies, Implications for the Global Digital Divide‘. The webinar highlighted that while quantum technologies promise major advances in healthcare and science, without urgent action on inclusion, capacity building, and post-quantum security, they risk significantly widening the global digital divide.
SPEAKERS Nicolas Fiumarelli – ISOC UY / DC-IS3C Amado Espinosa – Coordinator, IGF DC-DDHT Jenny Sicat Crabbe – WCI Delegate for UN ECOSOC Yao Amevi A. Sossou – IGF DC-DDHT João Rocha Gomes – IGF DC-DDHT / ADA Health Rodrigo Silva Roja – IGF DC-DDHT Jörn Erbguth – University of Geneva
HOST / MODERATOR Amali De Silva-Mitchell – Chair, IGF DC-DDHT
On March 11. 2026 the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society hosted a webinar ‘Broadband and Health: Collaboration, Funding, and Policy‘. As health care and digital inclusion organizations alike recognize that connectivity, devices, and digital skills shape our health, collaboration across sectors is essential. This webinar offered ideas for how organizations can collaborate, how health care funding sources can be marshaled to support patients’ and providers’ access and use of technology, as well as the policy considerations associated with expanding technology-enabled healthcare.
HOST Caroline Stratton – Research Director, Benton Institute
SPEAKERS Matt Christie – Medicaid Transformation Project, Washington State Health Care Authority Jon Morrison Winters – Digital Equity Program and Broadband Manager, City of Seattle Amy Sheon – Digital Health Equity Consultant, Rockville, Maryland Jamila McLean – Director of Health Equity, State Health and Value Strategies, Princeton University. Dr. Pablo Buitron de la Vega – Program Director, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (BUSM)
MODERATOR Sara Raza – Visiting Lecturer, University of Washington School of Law
On February 23, 2026, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalitions (DCs) held a webinar with the theme ‘Global Discussion on the Future of Digital Health‘. This global discussion brought together voices from policy, technology, research, and healthcare practice to explor how digital health technologies are reshaping healthcare delivery and transforming the patient experience, and examined opportunities, challenges, and emerging trends in digital health.
SPEAKERS Dr. Walter Greenleaf – Research & Innovations Director – Stanford Medical Mixed Reality Center, Stanford University Dr. Elia Lima-Walton, MD, PA– Principal Product Manager, Healthcare Generative AI, Mayo Clinic Sameer Pujari – Lead AI, World Health Organization / Vice Chair, AI 4 Health WHO ITU Focus Group, Digital Health & Innovation
HOST / MODERATOR Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta – Chairman, Dynamic Coalition in Digital Health
