Brian Citro

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and digital technologies are rapidly reshaping healthcare and public health worldwide. They offer immense promise for improving care, strengthening public health interventions, and creating more efficient processes. But their use has already led to harms, including discriminatory treatment of minority populations, unreliable clinical tools, and an ever-widening digital divide between wealthy countries and much of the Global South.

Brian Citro Brian Citro is a human rights lawyer and independent researcher. He was previously an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Clinical Lecturer in Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the University of Chicago Law School, respectively. He also served as Senior Research Officer to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health in New Delhi, India.

TUBERCULOSIS (‘TB’) HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. Anyone with basic knowledge about the disease will tell you that we have  found traces of the bacteria and the deformities it causes in human remains dating back thousands of years. This has led to the infamous claim that TB is the oldest disease known to humankind. By the time Robert Koch “discovered” the Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882, TB had gone by many names — phthisis, consumption, the white plague, scrofula, the King’s Evil.