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One university and six companies have secured contracts from the National Institutes of Health to produce digital health tools in support of coronavirus response efforts.

All seven awardees will aim to develop software, wearable devices or mobile applications intended for contact tracing, health monitoring and test results tracking, NIH said Tuesday.

Phase 1 will focus on demonstrating the feasibility of selected projects and Phase 2 will commence through a contractual option that will include additional funds to support further development and demonstration work.

The agency estimates that the total amount of contracts will reach $22.8M if all participants move forward to the second phase.

The tools these organizations plan to develop could allow us to use containment efforts, like COVID-19 testing, social distancing and quarantine, precisely when and where theyre needed, said Norman Sharpless, director of NIHs National Cancer Institute.

NCI and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, also part of NIH, chose projects from the seven awardees out of almost 200 submissions. These development projects will support a $306M effort, among other NCI and NIBIB pursuits, to address COVID-19, increase testing capacity and conduct serological studies.

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Separately, NIBIB awarded CareEvolution a contract to provide its SAFER-COVID assessment tool that works to fuse data on self-reported symptoms, electronic health records, claims and information from wearable devices in order to help users determine whether they can return to their normal routines.

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FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vibrent Health, a health technology company powering the future of precision health research, today announced it has been awarded a contract worth a potential value of $4.23 million from the National Institutes of Healths (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), to develop a large-scale, data-driven approach to fight COVID-19. Vibrent Health will expand and enhance its privacy-protected, cyber secure Digital Health Solutions Platform for Wi-Fi-enabled contact tracing designed to identify outbreaks and advise actions to protect individuals from COVID-19 exposure and to assist society with the return to normalcy.

The current public health crisis is compounded by a lack of scientifically validated technology tools for effective response strategies, said Praduman Jain, Founder and CEO, Vibrent Health. We are proud to be selected by NIH to develop and validate evidence-based contact tracing technology solutions that leverage user-friendly mobile tools and multiple data sources that we believe will have a significant impact on the fight against COVID-19.

The security, stability and depth of Vibrent Healths technology platform enhances contact tracing efforts by collecting data from broad data sources through existing Wi-Fi infrastructures that are pre-installed on most smart devices. The solution utilizes mobile applications, self-reported data, wearable devices and machine learning algorithms.

A critical feature of Vibrents solution will be its ability to differentiate COVID-19 from the Flu, indicating to users if they need to seek medical attention or not, which may alleviate the burden on health care facilities during Flu outbreaks.

Vibrent Healths solution will enable researchers, public health officials and the general public to make appropriate decisions to protect against exposure to COVID-19 and to enable individuals, communities, universities, facilities and event venues to reduce the risk of infection and thus help society to return to work and normal activities. This is especially important for essential workers who are at highest risk of exposure and those with diminished access to healthcare resources.

Digital health technologies built around smartphones and wearable devices will play an essential role in guiding us through the COVID-19 pandemic, said NIBIB Director Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D. These platforms can acquire large amounts of data from many different sources spanning from testing technologies to sensors. When this information is analyzed using cutting-edge computational and machine learning methods, everyone will have access to powerful new tools for reducing the risk of infection and returning to normal activities.

In May of this year, NCI and NIBIB invited organizations to submit ideas for digital health technologies that could enhance the public health response to the pandemic. Vibrent Health was selected as one of seven projects from nearly 200 different ideas. This is among the first NIH-awarded contracts to help create a next-generation contact tracing technology solution for public health response that combines the best of science and technology.

With this new contract, Vibrent Health has partnered with several academic organizations that will contribute machine learning for contact tracing, scientific validation and recruitment of medically underserved populations. Partners include Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, and University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds under Contract No. 75N91020C00038, as a component of the Congressionally supported response to COVID-19 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.

This contract builds on Vibrent Health and the NIHs existing deep collaboration, including the recently announced funding award to continue as the Participant Technology Systems Center (PTSC) of the All of Us Research Program. All of Us is one of historys largest longitudinal research programs, with an aim of partnering with one million or more diverse people living in the United States.

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In recent decades, ideas originating with Stanford students and faculty brought technologies that have disrupted industries, revolutionized business and eased communication in our daily lives. But they have also been linked to societal problems such as widening inequality, racial bias and lack of privacy.

Political science professors Margaret Levi and Rob Reich will co-lead the Ethics, Society and Technology (EST) Hub. (Image credit: L.A. Cicero)

As a way of ensuring that technological advances born at Stanford address the full range of ethical and societal implications, the Long-Range Vision launched the Ethics, Society and Technology (EST) Hub, co-led by Margaret Levi and Rob Reich, both professors of political science.

Stanford is home to outstanding ethicists and social scientists but they havent been well integrated into the ways we teach about, or do research related to, technology, said Debra Satz, the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of theSchool of Humanities and Sciences(H&S). The EST Hub will bring their insights into the conversation with scientists and engineers about such matters as how we might consider the choices we make regarding technologies that have the potential for widespread societal consequences.

The EST Hub will help coordinate and amplify the teaching, research and activities on campus at the intersection of ethics, society and technology.

The wider world knows Stanford for its leading role in technology innovation and disruption, said Reich, who is also director of the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. This initiative is born out of the desire that Stanford also be known for advances in our understanding of the ethical and social dimensions of technology.

Like many initiatives formed through the Long-Range Vision, the EST Hub doesnt create a new permanent entity. Instead, it is expected to have a three to five-year lifespan, with its activities eventually finding homes among Stanfords existing institutes, centers and programs.

Its about culture change in those we touch and incorporating ethics into our practices. We want to jumpstart that activity and then make sure it lasts, said Levi, who is also the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Reich helped launch a class called CS 182: Computers, Ethics and Public Policy, co-taught by Jeremy Weinstein, professor of political science, and Mehran Sahami, professor of computer science, which explores the intersection of technology, ethics and policy.

In the course CS 181: Computers, Ethics and Public Policy, Stanford students become computer programmers, policymakers and philosophers to examine the ethical and social impacts of technological innovation.

Its the only class I know of where students have to complete technical assignments, policy papers and philosophy papers, Reich said. Hes now exploring similar classes on topics like bioengineering and climate science. We want to take this idea beyond computer science, he said.

The EST Hub, in collaboration with Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and the computer science department, has also begun working with a postdoctoral fellow on a program called Embedded EthiCS, which will embed ethics modules into core computer science courses. We want to make it inescapable that technology majors get exposed to questions of ethics and policy, Reich said.

In addition to the ongoing curricular work, The EST Hub recently gave out six grants for people developing classes that integrate ethics, society and technology. These include classes focused on race in STEM, the risks and opportunities digital technologies present in civil society, an online version of an existing course on ethical urban data analysis, integrating diverse cultural perspectives in ethics training for global technologies, the ethics of using digital ecosystems for training performance artists and role-playing workshops for engineering courses.

Levi and Reich said they hope these courses and others that follow will ensure all STEM students at Stanford encounter opportunities to consider the social and ethical implications of technology.

We want to get to a point where we have dozens of classes in which students are seeing ethics as part of what their education is all about, Levi said.

In addition to supporting ethics in STEM education, The EST Hub is hoping to inspire faculty and students to focus on ethical questions in their research and in their lives. They recently awarded grants to both students and faculty to further those goals.

Levi said she was excited about the level of enthusiasm and creativity students showed in their proposals. They really have some ideas and energy for how to bring these practices into their lives and into the ways people are interacting with each other, she said.

The funded student proposals include two focused on the arts. One creates a magazine focused on the intersection of society and technology and another supports a film project that explores how broader issues of power, culture and our ethical priorities influence current developments of artificial intelligence. The students also proposed a CS fellowship focused on social good and a student group that reflects on and advocates for a more thoughtful approach to thedevelopment and role of technology. They are also exploring how Stanfords tech ecosystem has changed over the last decade, addressing the gaps that remain in student understanding of free speech across interdisciplinary fields and creating acollaboration between faculty and students dedicated to mitigating existential risks.

Funded faculty teams span the Schools of Medicine, Engineering and Humanities and Sciences. They include a project exploring whether digital tools could slow the spread of misinformation and the effects of artificial intelligence-mediated conversation. Another grant supports bioengineering fellows, and one creates an ethical review board for technology research. That board has already reviewed grants funded by HAI, and will review another round of grants in the fall. They expect to publish findings and best practices with the idea that it could inform the groups future work at Stanford and inspire related boards at other universities.

Although the EST Hub launched prior to the novel coronavirus, the international pandemic has revealed to everyone the ways technology is intertwined with individual and social well-being. To explore those implications, The EST Hub funded rapid response research into the societal effects of technology involved in COVID-19 efforts, including research into Zoom fatigue, digital theater, crisis education and photography to chronicle the pandemic across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Levi and Reich said that by embedding ethics in STEM and technology education, and creating new opportunities for students and faculty to engage in ethics in their lives and in their research, theyll create a culture that will endure when the EST Hub dissolves.

The hub integrates whats going on across the university, Levi said. If at the end our students, researchers and faculty practice differently in how they conduct research and lead their lives that would be a success.

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LAWRENCE Red Hot Research will return this fall in a different setting. The series, sponsored by The Commons at the University of Kansas, will take place over Zoom and feature most of the trademark elements of the traditional in-person event as it shifts to a digital channel for connecting scholars to their peers across disciplines.

Red Hot [Remote] Research will continue as a regular Friday event, beginning at 4 p.m. and featuring research from disciplines across the university around core themes. Each session will feature five presenters sharing short talks on an area of focus within their work. The series will continue to open the door for new ways of understanding work through discussion across perspectives.

The first event is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sept. 18 and will focus on Care & Aging. Subsequent sessions are scheduled for Oct. 9 on Rural/Urban, Oct. 23 on Gender & Representation and a special session Oct. 28, hosted in conjunction with a series of events KU has planned to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Additionally, one Red Hot Graduate Research session, an opportunity for graduate students to share their work with colleagues across campus, will be presented remotely Nov. 20.

In keeping with the goals of this series, presenters are asked to consider how other disciplinary perspectives could contribute to their research, the likely next steps for the research and challenges that they face in conducting the research. In turn, audience members are asked to, from their own perspectives, offer insights, questions and ideas.

Check The Commons website for Zoom registration information: https://thecommons.ku.edu/coming-events

Sept. 18: Care & Aging

Oct. 9: Rural / Urban

Emcee: Dave Tell, professor of communication studies and co-director of the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

Oct. 23: Gender & Representation

Oct. 28: Disability Studies

Emcee: Dot Nary, assistant research professor, Research & Training Center on Independent Living

Nov. 20: Graduate Research

Emcee: Elise Higgins, doctoral student in women, gender & sexuality studies.

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