Social scientist Kasley Killam has always been fascinated by the science of human connection. In college, for instance, she once decided to conduct a personal experiment and perform an act of kindness everyday for 108 days. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she researched solutions for loneliness. At Google's health spinoff, Verily, her job was to bring people together to promote social health. "I first came across the term'social health' during my research at Stanford, where I was developing an app around human connection," Killam says.

It comes as no surprise that we, too, are shifting the way we approach healthcare. More and more, people are taking their health into their own hands through use of wearable technology and apps on their mobile device. Within the last year alone, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, worldwide end-user spending on wearable devices increased 18.1 percent from 2020. People are embracing technology for health and wellness more than ever. From leading successful healthcare ventures to being a sought-after speaker on innovative concepts and trends, Harry Glorikian understands the revolutionary potential artificial intelligence and data can have on healthcare and life sciences.

The scale and pace of scientific endeavors to develop a vaccine for Coronavirus is unprecedented. There are already 25 different candidate vaccines in clinical trials around the world according to the World Health Organization (WHO) as of July 2020. Oxford University and AstraZeneca have recently announced promising early-stage results, claiming a vaccine might even be available later this year. AI is playing two important roles in the quest for an effective vaccine: firstly, by analyzing and understanding viral protein structures to guide the elements of a vaccine; and secondly, by helping researchers find relevant research papers that are being published at an accelerating rate. Around the world, organizations have created AI tools, shared data sets and research results, and then shared them freely with the global scientific community to help them find the papers relevant to their specific research, to review the breadth of recent findings, and uncover insights.