Dr. Ruth Agbakoba has over 10 years global professional experience in health innovation, digital transformation, implementation science, informatics, and health systems research. She holds 1st Class Degree in Biomedical Informatics, Masters in Health Informatics, and PhD in Digital Health Innovation, Ruth pivoted into working in Medical AI and Natural Language Processing in 2019 as Honorary Research Fellow at University College London.

Ruth recently completed a Post-Doctoral Innovation Fellowship at New York University where she was leading on iCPR3: a US National Institute of Health (NIH) grant focused on designing and developing a nurse-led clinical decision support system (embedded within Electronic Patient Record) to tackle overprescribing of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections, whilst promoting better patient outcomes and responsible antibiotic stewardship.