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A new panacea?Why is it so hard to get rid of unhealthy behavior? According to the theory of behavioral health economics, unhealthy behaviors are partly due to cognitive biases that adversely affect decision-making. The corresponding public health strategy is to identify these biases and design interventions that address them. Based on practical examples like diabetes management or physical ...

Risks of discrimination related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making are already well-documented in several domains, including policing, hiring, loans, and benefit fraud detection. In the past year, a number of cases have indicated that the health and medical sector are not immune to the discriminatory effects of AI. Studies have shown that algorithms widely ...

The Oxford Internet Institute is proud to present faculty member Dr Scott A. Hale for this next session in our Wednesday Webinar Series. The session will be moderated by Dr Chico Camargo, Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science at the OII.Misinformation about COVID-19 has led to severe harms in multiple instances: as an example, a rumor that drinking methanol would cure the virus resulted in ...

Resistance to antibiotics is a severe problem in contemporary medicine. Many antibiotics inhibit protein biosynthesis by hampering the ribosome function. Structures of bacterial ribosomes in complex with these antibiotics illuminated common pathways of antibiotics inhibitory action, but not the species-specific diversity in infectious-diseases susceptibility. Recent structural studies on ribosome ...

Mental health is described by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a state of well-being in which the individual is aware of his or her own abilities, can tolerate normal stress levels, function productively in the place of work and is able to contribute to their community. Mental disorders comprise a wide range of mental and behavioural disorders such as depression, bipolar affective disorder, ...