AAMU Alum and Assistant Professor Weems Co-PI
AAMU and Meharry Partner on NIMHD-Funded Artificial Intelligence Research
Alabama A&M University is partnering with Meharry School of Applied Computational Sciences to work on identifying artificial intelligence (AI) biases and educate others on AI. The funding is through a grant awarded to Meharry Medical College from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).
The $218,250 grant is a supplement to NIMHD funding to the Meharry RCMI Program in
Health Disparities Research. AAMU alum and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Science/Biomedical
Data Science, Dr. Ebony Weems, is Co-PI on the research. Weems will help design virtual
tutorials and develop AI ethics modules that will help students analyze ethical implications
of AI in Biological Sciences and its potential impact on health disparities.
Weems earned her microbiology degree from AAMU in 2009, her master’s degree in secondary education and teaching from Belmont University and has a doctorate in biological and biomedical sciences from Meharry Medical College.