Victoria Ward, MD

Pediatrician I Global Child Health | Medical Director, Digital Medic

[Stanford King Center on Global Development @StanfordKingCtr]

Combining artificial intelligence with low-cost satellite imagery, researchers at the lab have developed a system to spot forced labor at deforestation sites in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. https://t.co/g8O3QbkWiC

[StanfordGCH @Stanford_GCH]

🚨New publication alert! 🚨

@StanfordPeds' @gdarmsta, @victoriacward investigate whether #MachineLearning can improve gestational age estimates in a real-world setting.

In collaboration w/ @KEMRI_Kenya & Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

[Digital Medic at Stanford @DM_Stanford]

1 week away 🗓 join us for a #DigitalHealthWeek discussion called "Creating, sharing, & evaluating digital health education to improve global health equity" on 11 October at 3 PM GMT. Register now ➡️ https://t.co/tEobHhfBPO

[Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance @gavi]

.@Digital__MEdIC has created a free digital toolkit to equip community health workers with the knowledge and communication strategies to increase vaccine uptake around the world. Learn more: https://t.co/oOp12Tt1ny #VaccinesWork

[Nama Health Impact @Nama_Health]

We are Currently training a team of 168 CHEWs in Mayuge district on how to be advocates. Thanks to @chw_impact & @Digital__MEdIC for coming up with the CHW Advocacy course that will help CHWs & CHEWs advocate for better health standards of their communities. #nothing4uswithoutus

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

@JodLinMD @NIH_NIAMS YESS!! 🙌🏽🥳🎊 Congratulations!!

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

May this sweet beautiful neighborhood, during its independence parade, remind that it can happen anywhere. All sorts of thoughts about gun violence, about how this was possible. But for now…
Ways to help the kids & families of those who were lost: https://t.co/mu7md3XOQY

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

I always say there’s no better place than my hometown for July 4th. The parade, bbq, fireworks. The neighbors, everyone together. And now this. A nightmare in the midst of so much good. In the town next to ours.

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

@LahiaYemaneMD @StanfordOCHE @UCLAPRIME_LA @StanfordPeds Best of luck @Melanie_MDtoBe, we will miss you! @UCLAPRIME_LA is so lucky!

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

Love seeing this great work highlighted showing improved immunization timeliness with Kilkari mobile messaging service. Particularly valuable as we recover lost progress in protective routine vaccination for infants! Bravo @Amnesty_LeFevre, @bbcmediaaction, OPM and JHU teams!

[Digital Medic at Stanford @DM_Stanford]

In a 2021 paper published in @GlobalHealthBMJ, researchers described a study assessing a maternal mobile messaging program in Madhya Pradesh, India. It explored determinants of parental immunization knowledge + completeness and timeliness of childhood vaccinations

[Digital Medic at Stanford @DM_Stanford]

We developed a free mobile #CHW advocacy training in collaboration with @chw_impact + CHW advisors. The goal? To equip CHWs with the skills to participate in decision-making processes that affect their work and communities.

Now available on YouTube ▶️ https://t.co/InYkAuZklo

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

@DrJessieAllan @JulieLKim @StanfordChild @WomenInPHM @WIMSummit @SBonifacioNeo @AlexisDNeoMD @ShikhaJainMD @ETSshow @WomenNeo @SusanHintzMD @TchouMd @henryleeneo Congratulations @JulieLKim!! So wonderful and well-deserved!!👏🏽👏🏽

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

@andrew_zolli @Stanford @planet @BaiocchiMike @StanfordHAI @andrew_zolli Absolutely! Opportunities arising from using @planet imagery to find forced labor and avert illegal deforestation in the Amazon are profound – and we’ve got a great team working on it!

[Andrew Zolli @andrew_zolli]

Researchers at the @Stanford ’s Human Trafficking Data Lab use @Planet imagery to look for the #geospatial signature of modern-day slavery.

Great work @victoriacward @baiocchimike @StanfordHAI, Kimberly Babiarz - let’s talk!

https://t.co/mKa9hxuo0q

[Upworthy @Upworthy]

Such bright bedside manner ☀️ @DrJessieAllan

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

@StanfordPeds @LahiaYemaneMD So well deserved!!

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

@LahiaYemaneMD @Djeffreedom @DraMo_deAraujo @StanfordODME @OkorieMD @rakareemd @DrAAddala What a great day filled with wonderful people! 😍

[Community Health Impact Coalition @join_chic]

For too long, #CHWs have been excluded from discussions that influence their work and their communities. That’s why “Advocacy Training for Community Health Workers” is a critical course to share with CHWs around the world: https://t.co/7ckFqueozi. #WHWWeek2022

[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

What an immeasurable loss for the world. His fierce battle for health equity everywhere, for everyone, made him a teacher & hero for so many of us. His humor & humility were equally my favorite. May love and accompaniment ever more be the cornerstones for our care for all people.

[Partners In Health @PIH]

Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda.

Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children.

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[Victoria Ward, MD @victoriacward]

@DrDevikaB @DrBurkeHarris Wonderful news and congratulations @DrDevikaB!! Such incredible work you and the team have done so far, and surely much more to come. California is lucky to be in your good hands 💜