Sally Embrey
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“ We built very specialised AI-driven epidemiological models to understand where surges were going to occur ”
SALLY EMBREY VP OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES AT DATAROBO
" We started building forecasting models , trying to understand how to project as far into the future as possible , so we could understand where surges were happening ahead of time . That was how we originally got embedded within the clinical trials . We saw that if you waited for a surge to occur to open up your clinical trial enrollment site , by the time you actually got vaccines out the door , built up that site , got recruiters to bring people in and get their shots , the surge was over . You were missing an opportunity to get the endpoints required to develop the vaccine ."
Embrey says there are typically two main ways of doing clinical trials . The challenge trial involves purposely exposing people to COVID-19 , after which they are administered the vaccine and monitored to see if they become ill . The other is to give people either a vaccine or a placebo , after which they carry on with their daily routine to find out whether either group develops COVID-19 . " Most of the time , people are pretty opposed to the challenge trials , especially with something like COVID , because we don ' t understand the long term health repercussions . There ' s a big risk in terms of unknowns there " Embrey says .
Sally Embrey
TITLE : VP OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
COMPANY : DATAROBO
INDUSTRY : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SERVICES
LOCATION : UNITED STATES
Sally Embrey is the VP of Public
Health and Medical Technologies at DataRobot . Her career has focused on the intersection of public health , technology , and innovation . She has worked at numerous start-ups and Fortune 100 companies , leading data-driven initiatives using science as her guide .
Prior to DataRobot her work included collaborations with Google and Gavi , using AI and IoT to inform last-mile vaccine
logistics . Before that she was Director of Epidemiology at Praedicat and led the west coast Client Solutions team at AIG . She holds advanced degrees in epidemiology , environmental and occupational health , and environmental engineering from Emory and Stanford . healthcareglobal . com 119