Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study

4 December, The 22nd Brown Bag Seminar: “Can AI Identify Crucial Health-related Research Questions – and, if so, What AI Tool Might We Best Use?”, Dr. Maria Lohan (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS / Professor, Queen’s University Belfast) [onsite]

The 22nd HIAS Brown Bag Seminar

The HIAS Brown Bag Seminar is a new seminar series hosted by Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS).
The seminar series aims to promote interaction between HIAS researchers, faculty members, and students university-wide.
HIAS, with its 10 research centers, will continue to strive to function as a hub to facilitate active research collaboration throughout the University.

*Registration deadline is 3 PM, 3 December. Anyone is welcome to attend!

<If space allows, walk-in participants will be accepted on the day of the event.>

*Bring your own lunch.
<Coffee and snacks will be served.>

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▪️Date: Thursday 4, December, 2025 12:40-13:40 (Presentation + Chat over lunch)

▪️Title: “Can AI Identify Crucial Health-related Research Questions – and, if so, What AI Tool Might We Best Use?”

▪️Speaker: Dr. Maria Lohan (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS / Professor and Chair in Social Sciences and Health at Queen’s University Belfast, UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality)

▪️Abstract:

The World Health Organization and leading international research funders conduct rigorous international research priority setting exercises to decide on the most important research question to ask and to fund. How research priority setting exercises are conducted by funders therefore impacts all our research.
In this seminar I bring together two new papers in the Journal of Global Health and a synopsis in World University News in which my co-authors and I address two contemporary polemical questions on the minds of leading research funders and many researchers as they incorporate AI in deciding research priorities:
1. Artificial intelligence (AI) may be good at answering questions. But can AI help us to come up with good questions in the first place?
2. If so – which particular AI tool should be used and what is the impact on results based on this choice in relation to major health diseases?

▪️Meeting Format: Hybrid
[Face-to-Face] Seminar Room 517, Faculty Building II (*) 5th floor
(*) No. 21 building in the campus map: https://www.hit-u.ac.jp/eng/about/direction/campusmap/kunitachi.html
[Online (Zoom)] Registered participants will receive the Zoom link via email the day before.

▪️Language: English

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