Minutes of day 2 of the Artificial Intelligence and Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health and Care Award funding panel meeting to discuss applications to Competition 1.
Date and location
Minutes of the Competition 1 Funding Panel Meeting held on Thursday 15 July 2021 via virtual meeting using Zoom
In attendance
Funding Panel Members
- Professor Peter Bannister (Chair)
- Dr Naomi Lee (Deputy Chair)
- Mr Anmol Arora (PPIE representative)
- Professor Karl Atkin (Chair for application AI_HI200014)
- Professor Clare Bambra (Attended until 14:20)
- Professor Michael Barnes
- Professor Nusrat Husain
- Professor Gabrielle Finn (Attended for AI_HI200014 only)
- Dr Bilal Mateen
- Dr Krish Nirantharakumar
- Mrs Peju Oshisanya
- Mr Nanik Pursani (PPIE representative)
- Professor Nasir Rajpoot
AI PMO Secretariat
- Dr Ruth Nebauer (Assistant Director)
- Dr Andrew Barber
- Dr Silvana Cossins
- Dr Michelle Edye
- Dr Aayesha Hassan
- Miss Deimante Normantaite
- Dr Raffaella Roncone
- Mr Edwin Tucker
Operations Team
- Miss Cordelia Davey
- Miss Lilian Tomlinson
- Mrs Samantha Wade
Observers
- Ms Brhmie Balaram
- Dr Mai Stafford
Apologies
- Dr Rohini Mathur
- Ms Reema Patel
- Mr Jon Siddall (provided written comments)
- Ms Jenny Chong (provided written comments)
Applications invited to present at Panel Meeting
AI_HI200007: Understanding AI and racial inequalities for cardiovascular risk assessment
Conflicted Funding Panel Members: Professor Nusrat Husain, Dr Rohini Mathur, Dr Krish Nirantharakumar, Professor Nasir Rajpoot
Final Outcome: Rejected
AI_HI200008: Ethnic differences in performance and perceptions of Artificial Intelligence retinal image analysis systems for the detection of diabetic retinopathy in the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
Conflicted Funding Panel Member: Mr Anmol Arora
Final Outcome: Funded
AI_HI200004: Ethnic fairness in clinical prediction models used for decision support
Conflicted Funding Panel Members: Professor Nusrat Husain, Dr Bilal Mateen, Dr Krish Nirantharakumar
Final Outcome: Rejected
AI_HI200018: RAINBO: An appRoach for modelling observational dAta to Improve ethNicity coding and Build representative models suitable for ethnic grOups
Conflicted Funding Panel Members: Dr Bilal Mateen, Dr Rohini Mathur
Final Outcome: Rejected
AI_HI200014: STANDING together: STANdards for Data INclusivity and Generalisability
Conflicted Funding Panel Members: Professor Peter Bannister, Dr Naomi Lee, Mr Anmol Arora, Dr Bilal Mateen, Dr Krish Nirantharakumar, Ms Brhmie Balaram (Observer)
Final Outcome: Funded
AI_HI200026: Using machine learning to develop a decision support tool for GPs to address the healthcare needs of Black, Asian and other ethnic minority patients in the community.
Conflicted Funding Panel Members: None
Final Outcome: Rejected
AI_HI200031: Ethnic Bias AI toolkit, score card, benchmark datasets and their application within the NHS
Conflicted Funding Panel Members: Dr Bilal Mateen, Dr Rohini Mathur
Final Outcome: Rejected