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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 2 In this way and many others, AI could facilitate exponentially faster, and more significant, medical advances. 10 Only 35.1

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The Double-Edged Sword of Health Innovations: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Equity in Nigeria

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? However, health innovation, when narrowly defined as the application of technologies, often overlooks the broader socioeconomic contexts in which it is deployed.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

Advancing innovations that lead to equitable and sustainable solutions in the healthcare system requires interrogating the inequities embedded within research, design, and testing processes for novel health solutions, as well as diversifying the people involved at each stage.

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Groundbreaking Study to Tackle Cancer Disparities among Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Similarly, the National Institutes of Health also found that hair straightening chemicals increase uterine cancer risk and that Black women may be more affected due to higher use of products with these chemicals. Black women carry a long and sordid history of injustices when it comes to medical research and clinical trials.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

In this blog post, I’ll explore the possibility of AI in social work, examine real-world applications and success stories, address challenges and ethical considerations, and envision the future of this exciting time. At the same time, another may benefit more from exposure therapy and medication.

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An AWP Conference in the Wake of Climate Disaster

NonProfit Quarterly

Its ethical and imperative for travelers to visit Los Angeles now, Dominica Deluca, owner of skate shop Brooklyn Projects in Hollywood, told Cond Nast Traveler. Some of the people most vulnerable to long-term health problems from the fires, like lung issues from air pollution, are disabled. Avoid specific disaster zones.

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Embracing rapid change: Trends shaping the nonprofit sector in 2025

Candid

In another example, the American Cancer Society used AI to examine GoFundMe campaigns and found that over one-third of fundraising stories explicitly described financial hardships caused by medical issues. They understand the states health inequities and the need to address those gaps didnt come about in a few short years.

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