Monash and Apollo University partner on medical AI education and research

Monash University and India’s The Apollo University (TAU) are collaborating on advancing healthcare and medical AI education, research, and student engagement.

This agreement is a first step towards sharing and developing more capabilities in the space of digital healthcare and delivery.

“The pandemic emphasised the importance of building digital health capabilities such as examining how to deliver the best available technology support for the public, in ways most suitable to them, so they can take ownership of their wellness needs, and examining how to build these systems in what are currently quite low tech, paper-based or low resource healthcare settings,” said Professor Chris Bain of Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology.

Through the collaboration, Monash’s Faculty of IT researchers and academics will engage in knowledge sharing with health sciences students from TAU and healthcare professionals from Apollo Hospitals.

TAU students will be given the opportunity to undertake four- to six-month joint certification programmes particularly in the fields of health informatics and analytics, and digital health with Monash University. Reciprocally, Monash University students will be able to gain practical experience at Apollo Hospitals Group.

“Building strong networks of learning and research sharing between learning centres in India like Apollo University and Monash Faculty of Information Technology will surely lead to better health outcomes in both countries,” said Bain.

In addition to teaching and student engagement, the universities aim to establish periodic multinational Health AI events that will serve as a forum to share research findings and discuss approaches to better tackle healthcare challenges with the help of AI and other emerging technologies.

“The alliance between our two institutions and forthcoming knowledge sharing aligns with our broader shared objectives of achieving great strides with real-world implications in the field of digital health,” said Professor Satyanarayana Rentala of TAU’s School of Health Sciences.