This special iCubed Seminar Series event will convene multiple speakers from KMPG to share a client story on how KPMG used data to improve health equity. 

Guest Speakers

Todd Ellis, Principal, Advisory C&O Health & Government

Vonetta Daniels, Director, Advisory C&O Health & Government

Sreedhar Sasikumar, Director, D&A Modeler LH, Advisory Data Organization

Moderated by: Jessica Rodriguez, Industry Engagement and Outreach Officer, Data Science Institute

Hosted by: Courtney D. Cogburn, Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Data Science Institute; and Associate Professor of Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work

Event Details & Recording

Friday, February 24, 2023 (1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET) – In-Person

In-Person Location: Columbia School of Social Work, Concourse Level (Room C03). Address: 1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027

The event recording may available for Columbia University faculty and students. Please contact datascience@columbia.edu for inquiries about accessing the recording.

Talk Information

Data for DE&I – Improving Health Equity with Data

KPMG has worked with Morehouse School of Medicine over the course of several years, bringing them to the KPMG Atlanta Ignition Center to discuss innovation and some of the ongoing work in digital health, telemedicine, data and analytics, and patient access. When COVID-19 hit, there was an opportunity for MSM to pursue a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. Despite being given less than a week to complete the grant application—and facing stiff competition from across the nation—MSM won the award, with KPMG positioned to lead, building and managing the technology infrastructure to support the work.

The platform, enabled by Salesforce, encompasses a thorough communication strategy developed by leading health disparities researchers and marketing organizations aimed at disproportionally impacted communities across the nation. The data includes attributes from the KPMG Signals Repository, which is an active listening platform that continuously harvests a variety of data from public and private sources. Structured and unstructured data is transformed into complex expressions, creating tens of thousands of signals when used by machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) systems and is helping the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network (NCRN) significantly improve its accuracy in predictions.

This event will include speakers from KPMG sharing insights and a live demonstration about this project. Learn more here.