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LiGHT is an international laboratory advancing open-access and implementable AI for global health and humanitarian response.
With researchers and students embedded across Africa, Switzerland, India, and the United States, we design, deploy, and evaluate AI systems in partnership with ministries of health, NGOs, and frontline providers. Our work combines strong engineering, evaluation, and implementation science to build AI that works in the real world.
19
Countries
100,000+
Downloads of Meditron
500,000+
Clinical Evaluations on MOOVE
Why we exist
Impact through evidence
Minimal co-dependencies
Participatory design
Distributed leadership & ownership
Open science & public goods
LiGHT exists to translate research into
scalable solutions for global health equity and humanitarian response, especially in complex and low-resource environments.
We co-develop, validate, and scale trustworthy AI and data solutions with NGOs and frontline teams to improve health and humanitarian outcomes.
We build academic credibility in driving evidence-base into deployable and scalable innovations that are locally sustained by local stakeholders.
Why we exist
COLLABORATORS
AFFILIATES
FUNDERS
EPFL, School of Computer Science, Switzerland
Harvard, Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, USA
Ashoka University, Koita Center for Digital Health, India
EPFL, School of Computer Science, Switzerland
Harvard, Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, USA
Ashoka University, Koita Center for Digital Health, India
Open science & public goods
Impact through evidence
Participatory design
Distributed leadership & ownership
EPFL, School of Computer Science, Switzerland
Harvard, Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, USA
Ashoka University, Koita Center for Digital Health, India
EPFL, School of Computer Science, Switzerland
Harvard, Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, USA
Ashoka University, Koita Center for Digital Health, India