Mary-Anne (“Annie”) Hartley

Mary-Anne (“Annie”) Hartley

Prof Mary-Anne “Annie” Hartley, leads the Laboratory for intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT). 

LiGHT is an international research group based jointly at EPFL (School of Computer Science) and Harvard (T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Ariadne Labs) with satellite presence at Ashoka University in India and the C4IR in Rwanda.

Her team works with NGOs and humanitarian response organizations like Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross to develop implementable AI-powered technology that provably improves healthcare in resource-limited settings and under-represented populations.

In her free time, Annie is a passionate lover-of-street-dogs and medical doctor, and continues to work clinically in a volunteer capacity in her home country of South Africa.

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