
Elaine O. Nsoesie, PhD, MS
Associate Professor, Global Health - Boston University School of Public Health
Biography
Elaine Nsoesie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. She also leads the Racial Data Tracker project at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. She is a Data Science Faculty Fellow and was a Founding Faculty of the Boston University Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. She currently co-leads the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) Program at the National Institutes of Health through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Mobility Program.
Her research is primarily focused on the use of data and technology to advance health equity. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed literature about opportunities and challenges involved in the use of data from social media, search engines, mobile phones, and other digital technologies for public health surveillance.
Her work approaches health equity from multiple angles, including increasing representation of communities typically underrepresented in data science through programs like Data Science Africa and AIM-AHEAD; addressing bias in health data and algorithms; and using data and policy to advance racial equity. She has collaborated with local departments of health in the U.S. to improve disease surveillance systems, international organizations like UNICEF and UNDP, and served as a Data & Innovation Fellow in the Directorate of Science, Technology, and Innovation (DSTI), The President’s Office, Sierra Leone.
Nsoesie was born and raised in Cameroon.
Nsoesie completed her PhD in Computational Epidemiology from the Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program at Virginia Tech, and her PhD dissertation, Sensitivity Analysis and Forecasting in Network Epidemiology Models, at the Network Dynamics and Simulations Science Lab at Virginia Tech BioComplexity Institute. After postdoctoral associate positions at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, she joined the faculty of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
Other Positions
- Founding Assistant Professor, Computing & Data Sciences Administration - Boston University
- Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research - Boston University
Education
- Virginia Tech, PhD Field of Study: Genetics/Bioinformatics
- Virginia Tech, MS Field of Study: Statistics
- University of Maryland, BS Field of Study: Mathematics
Publications
- Published on 1/3/2023
Yang Y, Cho A, Nguyen Q, Nsoesie EO. Association of Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Composition and Historical Redlining With Built Environment Indicators Derived From Street View Images in the US. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jan 03; 6(1):e2251201. PMID: 36652250.
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- Published on 9/23/2022
Nsoesie EO, Vu C. Monkeypox: Where are the racial disparities? Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023 Jan; 17:100372. PMID: 36249074.
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- Published on 7/26/2022
Reyna MA, Nsoesie EO, Clifford GD. Rethinking Algorithm Performance Metrics for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine. JAMA. 2022 07 26; 328(4):329-330. PMID: 35802382.
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- Published on 7/26/2022
Nsoesie EO, Galea S. Towards better Data Science to address racial bias and health equity. PNAS Nexus. 2022 Jul; 1(3):pgac120. PMID: 36741434.
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- Published on 7/21/2022
Lundberg DJ, Cho A, Raquib R, Nsoesie EO, Wrigley-Field E, Stokes AC. Geographic and Temporal Patterns in Covid-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in the United States from March 2020 to February 2022. medRxiv. 2022 Jul 21. PMID: 35898347.
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- Published on 6/15/2022
Hernandez MA, Modi S, Mittal K, Dwivedi P, Nguyen QC, Cesare NL, Nsoesie EO. Diet during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of Twitter data. Patterns (N Y). 2022 Aug 12; 3(8):100547. PMID: 35721836.
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- Published on 6/1/2022
Abdalla SM, Hernandez M, Fazaludeen Koya S, Rosenberg SB, Robbins G, Magana L, Nsoesie EO, Sabin L, Galea S. What matters for health? Public views from eight countries. BMJ Glob Health. 2022 Jun; 7(6). PMID: 35705225.
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- Published on 5/24/2022
Tizzoni M, Nsoesie EO, Gauvin L, Karsai M, Perra N, Bansal S. Addressing the socioeconomic divide in computational modeling for infectious diseases. Nat Commun. 2022 May 24; 13(1):2897. PMID: 35610237.
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- Published on 3/1/2022
Holtzman GS, A Khoshkhoo N, Nsoesie EO. The Racial Data Gap: Lack of Racial Data as a Barrier to Overcoming Structural Racism. Am J Bioeth. 2022 03; 22(3):39-42. PMID: 35258425.
Read At: PubMed
- Published on 1/14/2022
Ghassemi M, Nsoesie EO. In medicine, how do we machine learn anything real? Patterns (N Y). 2022 Jan 14; 3(1):100392. PMID: 35079713.
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News & In the Media
- Published on January 20, 2023
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Published on July 8, 2022
Tweets Suggest People Consumed Healthier Foods during the Pandemic
- Published on June 9, 2022
- Published on February 23, 2022
- Published on December 2, 2021
- Published on August 12, 2021
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Published on August 9, 2021
Does the US Have to Wear Masks Again for the Delta Variant of COVID?
- Published on April 14, 2021
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Published on January 22, 2021
Rumours about 5G Causing COVID-19 Spreading Faster Than the Virus Itself
- Published on January 21, 2021
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Published on January 13, 2021
5G Doesn’t Cause COVID-19, But the Rumor It Does Spread Like a Virus
- Published on January 11, 2021
- Published on December 7, 2020
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Published on December 7, 2020
The Virus Is Devastating the U.S., and Leaving an Uneven Toll
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Published on November 12, 2020
Physical Distancing Policies Not Enough to Protect Lower-Income People
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Published on September 10, 2020
In Brazil, Homicides Are Decreasing in Big Cities, Increasing in Smaller Towns: Study.
- Published on September 9, 2020
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Published on September 7, 2020
In Brazil, Homicides Are Decreasing in Big Cities, Increasing in Smaller Towns
- Published on August 24, 2020
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Published on June 12, 2020
Is the US Heading for a Second Wave of Coronavirus Infections?
- Published on June 11, 2020
- Published on June 11, 2020
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Published on June 11, 2020
Coronavirus May Have Spread in China as Far Back as August: Study
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Published on June 9, 2020
Satellite Data Suggests Coronavirus May Have Hit China Earlier: Researchers
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Published on June 9, 2020
Satellite Data Suggests Coronavirus May Have Hit China Earlier: Researchers
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Published on June 9, 2020
Macy’s Jumps on Reopening; AstraZeneca Signs Deals: Virus Update
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Published on June 9, 2020
Coronavirus May Have Been Spreading since August 2019, Harvard Study Finds
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Published on June 4, 2020
Protesting Racism versus Risking COVID-19: ‘I Wouldn’t Weigh These Crises Separately’
- Published on June 4, 2020
- Published on June 3, 2020
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Published on June 3, 2020
Protests against Police Brutality Threaten Coronavirus Response
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Published on June 3, 2020
Protesting Racism versus Risking COVID-19: ‘I Wouldn’t Weigh These Crises Separately’
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Published on June 2, 2020
Anti-Racism Protests versus COVID-19 Risk: ‘I Wouldn’t Weigh These Crises Separately’
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Published on June 2, 2020
Anti-Racism Protests versus COVID-19 Risk: ‘I Wouldn’t Weigh These Crises Separately’
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Published on June 2, 2020
Protesting Racism versus Risking COVID-19: ‘I Wouldn’t Weigh These Crises Separately’
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Published on May 12, 2020
Fox News Host Claims Social Distancing Not Necessary amid Coronavirus Outbreak
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Published on May 8, 2020
Fact-Check: Is There a Scientific Basis for Coronavirus Social Distancing?
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Published on May 7, 2020
Laura Ingraham Wrong About ‘No Real Scientific Basis’ for Social Distancing
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Published on May 4, 2020
African AI Platform to Host Webinar on How Machine Learning Can Be Used to Fight COVID-19
- Published on April 21, 2020
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Published on April 10, 2020
New COVID-19 Projections Suggest a Brighter Outlook for Kansas and Missouri but Experts Urge Caution
- Published on April 8, 2020
- Published on April 8, 2020
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- Published on April 7, 2020
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Published on April 7, 2020
Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States
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Published on April 6, 2020
Social Distancing Works, but Resistance Prompts Worries of Growing Crisis
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Published on April 6, 2020
Shoppers Put Everyone at Risk When They Converge on Kansas City’s Big Box Stores
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Published on January 9, 2020
New Study Characterizes How Twitter Users Discuss Miscarriage, Preterm Birth
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Published on January 8, 2020
Celebrity Miscarriage Disclosures Increase Discussion on Twitter
- Published on January 6, 2020
- Published on November 12, 2019
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Published on November 12, 2019
Microsoft Returns as Sponsor for Data Science Nigeria’s Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp 2019
- Published on October 3, 2019
- Published on October 3, 2019
- Published on September 4, 2019
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Published on August 23, 2019
*This* Is the Favored Exercise Method of US Twitter Users, Study Finds
- Published on August 21, 2019
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- Published on August 16, 2019
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Published on August 9, 2019
Researchers Train AI to Spot Potentially Unsafe Food Products on Amazon
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Published on August 9, 2019
Is Your Food OK? BERT, an AI Computer, Might Be the Key to Safe Supply, Quicker Recalls
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Published on August 9, 2019
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Food Recalls Using Online Reviews
- Published on August 7, 2019
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Published on August 7, 2019
Researchers Say This AI Can Spot Unsafe Food on Amazon Faster Than the FDA
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Published on August 7, 2019
BU Researchers Use Amazon Reviews and AI to Predict Product Recalls
- Published on August 7, 2019
- Published on August 6, 2019
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Published on August 6, 2019
Researchers Use Amazon Reviews and AI to Predict Product Recalls
- Published on August 5, 2019
- Published on July 30, 2019
- Published on July 25, 2019
- Published on July 23, 2019
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Published on July 23, 2019
Researchers Use Social Media and AI to Gain Insight into People’s Exercise Habits
- Published on July 23, 2019
- Published on July 23, 2019
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Published on July 22, 2019
Twitter and AI Reveal Regional and Gender Differences in Gym Habits
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Published on July 22, 2019
Researchers Use Twitter and Artificial Intelligence to See Who Is Exercising
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Published on July 22, 2019
Researchers Use Twitter and Artificial Intelligence to See Who’s Exercising
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Published on July 22, 2019
Social Media Chatter Reveals County-Level Male v. Female Exercise Patterns
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Published on July 22, 2019
Twitter, Artificial Intelligence Track People’s Physical Activities
- Published on July 19, 2019
- Published on June 18, 2019
- Published on June 3, 2019