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LiGHT is an international laboratory advancing open-access and implementable AI for global health and humanitarian response.
With researchers and students embedded across Africa, Switzerland, India, and the United States, we design, deploy, and evaluate AI systems in partnership with ministries of health, NGOs, and frontline providers.
Our work combines strong engineering, evaluation, and implementation science to build AI that works in the real world.
100,000
DOWNLOADS OF MEDITRON
500,000+
CLINICAL EVALUATIONS ON MOOVE
19
COUNTRIES IN OPERATION
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We translate rigorous research into real-world impact through clinical evaluation, implementation science, and measurable outcomes.
We co-design with communities and frontline partners, ensuring solutions are shaped by local knowledge, needs, and lived experience.
We co-create solutions with local partners, building knowledge, skills, and long-term ownership so innovation can continue long after a project ends.
We make our research, tools, and evidence openly accessible whenever possible, enabling collaboration, transparency, and greater global impact.
Why we exist
LiGHT exists to translate research into scalable solutions for global health equity and humanitarian response, especially in complex and low-resource environments.
We co-develop, validate, and scale trustworthy AI and data solutions with NGOs and frontline teams to improve health and humanitarian outcomes.
We build academic credibility by driving evidence-based solutions into deployable, scalable innovations that local stakeholders sustain locally.
How we work
Four principles guide every project at LiGHT, from early prototyping to deployment in the field. They shape how we build, who we build with, and how we measure whether our work actually helps. Rather than starting from the technology, we start from the problem, designing solutions that fit the realities of the communities and health systems we work with , not the other way around.
Impact through evidence
We translate rigorous research into real-world impact through clinical evaluation, implementation science, and measurable outcomes.
Participatory design
We co-design with communities and frontline partners, ensuring solutions are shaped by local knowledge, needs, and lived experience.
Distributed leadership & ownership
We co-create solutions with local partners, building knowledge, skills, and long-term ownership so innovation can continue long after a project ends.
Open science & public goods
We make our research, tools, and evidence openly accessible whenever possible, enabling collaboration, transparency, and greater global impact.
How we work
Four principles guide every project at LiGHT, from early prototyping to deployment in the field. They shape how we build, who we build with, and how we measure whether our work actually helps.
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Impact through evidence
We translate rigorous research into real-world impact through clinical evaluation, implementation science, and measurable outcomes.
.png)
Participatory design
We co-design with communities and frontline partners, ensuring solutions are shaped by local knowledge, needs, and lived experience.
Distributed leadership & ownership
We co-create solutions with local partners, building knowledge, skills, and long-term ownership so innovation can continue long after a project ends.
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Open science & public goods
We make our research, tools, and evidence openly accessible whenever possible, enabling collaboration, transparency, and greater global impact.
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Impact through
evidence
We translate rigorous research into real-world impact through clinical evaluation, implementation science, and measurable outcomes.
Participatory
design
We co-design with communities and frontline partners, ensuring solutions are shaped by local knowledge, needs, and lived experience.
Distributed leadership & ownership
We co-create solutions with local partners, building knowledge, skills, and long-term ownership so innovation can continue long after a project ends.
Open science & public goods
We make our research, tools, and evidence openly accessible whenever possible, enabling collaboration, transparency, and greater global impact.
Health Equity =
LiGHT is an international laboratory advancing open-access and implementable AI for global health and humanitarian response.
With researchers and students embedded across Africa, Switzerland, India, and the United States, we design, deploy, and evaluate AI systems in partnership with ministries of health, NGOs, and frontline providers. Our work combines strong engineering, evaluation, and implementation science to build AI that works in the real world.
100,000+
Downloads of Meditron
500,000+
Clinical Evaluations on MOOVE
19
Countries
LiGHT exists to translate research into scalable solutions for global health equity and humanitarian response, especially in complex and low-resource environments.
We co-develop, validate, and scale trustworthy AI and data solutions with NGOs and frontline teams to improve health and humanitarian outcomes.
We build academic credibility by driving evidence-based solutions into deployable, scalable innovations that local stakeholders sustain locally.
Why we exist
Why we exist
IMPACT THROUGH EVIDENCE
Minimal co-dependencies
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
DISTRIBUTED LEARNING & OWNERSHIP
OPEN SICENCE & PUBLIC GOODS
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EPFL, School of Computer Science, Switzerland
Harvard, Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, USA
Ashoka University, Koita Center for Digital Health, India
C4IR, Africa AI Scaling Hub, Rwanda
