World Bank Group April 26, 2021
On March 31st and April 1st, the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Department and Tools and Analytics Unit hosted Measuring Development: Emerging Data and Methods in Global Health Research (MeasureDev 2021), in partnership with the Center for Effective Global Action. The conference showcased how researchers are using new types of data and data-intensive approaches to address critical public health challenges, especially in low- and middle-income countries. It highlighted ways that new analytical methods (such as applications of artificial intelligence), and growing troves of new data (produced by social media platforms, internet searches, sensors, and cell phones) are allowing researchers to track, measure, and respond to health interventions and phenomena in real-time, and at lower cost than traditional person-to-person...