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Dr. Dawn Heisey-Grove

Author: Dr. Dawn Heisey-Grove

Dr. Dawn Heisey-Grove is the global health lead for AWS Skilling and Social Impact. She has spent her career finding new ways to innovate with health organizations using the best technology. Dawn brings deep expertise in public health systems, health informatics, and technology-driven solutions to advance health equity and resilience on a global scale.

From Lab to Bedside: Five Years of AI-Powered Health Breakthroughs and What Comes Next

From Lab to Bedside: Five Years of AI-Powered Health Breakthroughs and What Comes Next

This blog discusses how AWS has supported more than 600 customers with over $90 million of technology to innovate in health. Forty-four percent of these customers employed AWS AI services, seeding AI innovation across the global health landscape and proving that cloud-powered AI can improve health and wellness for all. This blog highlights nine of those organizations deploying AI to save lives today, culminating in AWS’s largest single social impact investment in health: a landmark technology collaboration with the Fleming Initiative to build the world’s first AI-powered platform for combating antimicrobial resistance.

Sovereign Intelligence: How AWS Enables Global Health Security Without Compromising Data Privacy

Sovereign Intelligence: How AWS Enables Global Health Security Without Compromising Data Privacy

In this post, we explore how AWS enables global pathogen surveillance and outbreak intelligence through sovereign-by-design platforms like PathGen, which allow countries to collaborate on infectious disease tracking while maintaining control over their sensitive health data within national borders.

Breaking Down Barriers: How AWS Democratizes Genomic Data for the World

Breaking Down Barriers: How AWS Democratizes Genomic Data for the World

This blog is the first in a three-part series that explores how AWS is transforming genomic research through democratized data access, sovereign-by-design outbreak intelligence platforms, and population-scale biobanks that enable global collaboration while maintaining data security and privacy.

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AWS expands its support of ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health performers

AWS provides innovative health researchers with the agility, adaptivity, and resilience they need to accelerate their research. Because of this, AWS expanded the scope of its commitment to Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Sprint for Women’s Health performers to include its Spark funding track awardees. These awardees focus on transformative early-stage research in women’s health.

AWS presents cloud training pathways for public health professionals

AWS announced Training Pathways for Public Health. These pathways are designed for public health professionals to learn more about the cloud and the AWS services that can help them on their modernization journey. Digital and cloud skills are in high demand in the public health community. To meet this need, public health agencies can upskill staff and develop a new generation of public health professionals who are equipped to work in a modern data architecture.

Accelerating public health innovation with AWS Partners

Public health agencies are looking to modernize their infrastructure to make sure that their health solutions can scale equitably and reliably in any situation. Many governmental public health agencies across the US look to AWS and the AWS Partner Network to help them innovate quickly. Learn how AWS brought together three governmental public health agencies and partners to create scalable solutions that support public health.