Bio
Zahra Shakeri is a Tier II NSERC Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics and Precision Public Health, and an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics and Information Visualization at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is also the director of the Health Informatics, Visualization, and Equity (HIVE) Lab, where she leads research on AI for public health, clinical AI, and visual storytelling with data in the field of public health.
Her work centers on using multimodal data to model human behavior, developing equitable, data-driven healthcare solutions, and addressing ethical challenges in deploying large language models in healthcare. She also designs visualization systems to interpret complex data, enabling precision public health and clinical decision-making.