Rumi Chunara

Rumi Chunara is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the NYU School of Global Public Health and of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon, where she directs the Center for Health Data Science. She pioneered the use of social media data for real-time disease surveillance, demonstrated that utilizing big data without domain knowledge impacts public health decision-making (PNAS, 2024), and published research assessing and mitigating algorithmic bias in predictive models at NYC Health + Hospitals (npj Digital Medicine, 2025). Her influential Nature Machine Intelligence paper introduced a framework grounded in the Social Ecological Model for developing equitable health algorithms.

• A Social Ecological Framework for Health Algorithm Equity (2021) Paper
• Algorithmic bias mitigation at NYC Health + Hospitals (2025) Paper
• Telemedicine disparities during COVID-19 (2021) Paper