Prof Mary-Anne “Annie” Hartley, leads the Laboratory for intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT). LiGHT is an international research group based jointly in the US at Ariadne Labs (Harvard Chan School of Public Health & Brigham and Women’s Hospital), Switzerland at EPFL (School of Computer Science), and Rwanda at Carnegie Mellon University Africa (College of Engineering)

Her team works with NGOs and humanitarian response organizations like Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross to develop implementable AI-powered technology that provably improves healthcare in resource-limited settings and under-represented populations.

In her free time, Annie is a passionate lover-of-street-dogs and medical doctor, and continues to work clinically in a volunteer capacity in her home country of South Africa.