Joel Selanikio

Highly accomplished physician, inventor, and emergency responder known for his groundbreaking work in technology and healthcare, including the development of the Magpi mobile data collection system. His expertise and contributions have been recognized through prestigious awards, speaking engagements at renowned institutions, and impactful humanitarian efforts in global health crises.

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English

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Washington DC

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Biography

Dr. Joel Selanikio is a practicing physician, TED speaker, inventor, emergency responder, and consultant working in the fields of technology, healthcare, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, social innovation, big data, child health, and disaster response.

He is the winner of both the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare and the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainable Innovation for the development of the Magpi mobile data collection system, the first cloud-based application created for global health and international development.

Dr. Selanikio has consulted and/or spoken at Davos, Foo Camp, WHO, UNICEF, IFRC, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Google, DARPA, CNN, Fox News, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Royal Society of Medicine, and for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry – and has been profiled by the Guardian, Wired, Forbes, TED, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, the BBC, NPR, Information Week, and the Washington Post, among many other publications.

An emergency responder and former CDC epidemiologist and outbreak investigator, Dr. Selanikio served as a consultant epidemiologist to FEMA and the DC Department of Health for the COVID-19 response over 2020-22. In December 2014 – January 2015, he was the lead physician at the IMC Ebola Treatment Center at Lunsar, Sierra Leone. As an officer of the Public Health Service, Dr. Selanikio served as Chief of Operations for the HHS Secretary’s Emergency Command Center after the 9/11 attacks. He has received awards from both his alma maters, Brown University Medical School and Haverford College, for his humanitarian work.

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Testimonials

“If you need inspiration, education and entertainment, Joel covers all three. He was a keynote speaker at the Irish Health Research Board conference on Big Data in Health, the opportunities and challenges ahead. He did not speak to our audience, he brought them on a journey. First we went back in time. This was to ground our understanding of how far we have come in the world of data, big data and Al. Through clever examples and recent research papers he demonstrated the growth and potential of big data and Al for health. If you asked anyone in our audience, they would say it was an incredible journey.”

“Dr. Selanikio delivered a mind-blowing message to our audience, illustrating with a unique view how innovation and technology is disrupting the healthcare industry and rattling legacy systems of care. He inspired our audience to think differently about their current systems and practices, and power and potential of consumerism on the future of the healthcare delivery system.”

“He was just incredible from the beginning of our conversations, to the event presentation, to the post event engagement with the audience. A wonderful professional to deal with. I would engage Joel at the next opportunity I have.”

“I strongly recommend Dr. Joel Selanikio as an extraordinary speaker. Bayer Portugal had Dr.
Selanikio on two occasions in Portugal to speak about collaboration and its impact on society and science advances and on both talks he manage to capture the audiences attention in a most entertaining, fresh and interesting way.”

“Dr. Selanikio gave a fantastic TED-style talk on data-driven innovation in health at the
2018 HHS Opioid Symposium, bringing the audience through the history of tech through the latest developments in big data and Al, and tying it all together in a package that was entertaining and informative, and highly-rated by the audience.”

“Joel gave an outstanding presentation at our annual partners’ meeting in 2017, speaking to the top 200 leaders in our company. His vision of the impact technology will have on healthcare was compelling… Id highly recommend Joel for anyone who is looking for a speaker that will present a compelling vision of the future of healthcare.”

“I never felt more satisfaction in any decision than on the one to bring Joel onboard; he gave a fantastic talk to more than 1500, nearly the entire group of attendees.”