Conversation with Annie Hartley, EPFL

About this episode

Marcel talks with Annie Hartley about building trustworthy medical AI and its applications in humanitarian response.

In this episode, Marcel talks with Annie Hartley, EPFL Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health & Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT), about building trustworthy medical AI that works in the field. They cover LiGHT’s cross-institution work with EPFL and Harvard/Ariadne Labs, operational hubs in Rwanda and India, why neutrality matters in humanitarian tech, and how to evaluate models via clinician collaboration and real-world trials. They also discuss Meditron (a medical LLM pipeline), truly open models like Apertus, and MOOVE, a massive open validation platform where experts collaborate to align medical LLMs with real-world standards. Find out more: LiGHT Laboratory: https://www.light-laboratory.org/ Join the MOOVE: https://jointhemoove.org/ Production: Ethan Nyffenegger

People in this episode

Host: Marcel

Guest: Annie Hartley

Topics covered

• medical AI
• humanitarian technology
• trustworthy AI
• collaboration
• real-world trials
• open models
• validation platforms

Keywords

• medical AI
• humanitarian response
• LiGHT
• collaboration
• real-world trials
• Meditron
• Apertus
• MOOVE

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EPFL, Harvard/Ariadne Labs, LiGHT

Products: Meditron, Apertus, MOOVE

Places: Rwanda, India

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