6. nov. 2025
# of Illustrations:
8
Hello there! On November 6, 2025 I had the pleasure to live drawing the Health Data Science Day, organized by HeaDS (the Center for Health Data Science at the University of Copenhagen).
For my personal reference as an illustrator:
Main talks 35 minutes, Short talks 12 minutes, Light talks 3 minutes.
You will find the drawings from:
Naomi Wray
Justify for one disease, The rest comes for free.
Basically "the mother" of polygenic risk. It was an incredible talk with a lot of highlights from her career. I particularly enjoyed listening to this talk after participating in the Genomics Mechanisms of Disease conference organized by the Science Cluster.In that conference, in fact, I have been drawing other talks about Polygenic Risk Score from Seamus Harrison and Eimear Kenny.
Naomi's talk gave a nice framework of the spirit and technological advancements between the early 2000s and now.
Hanne-Christin Hauschild
It was lovely to listen to Hanne's talk. It was divided in 4 main topics, very clear from the beginning (this really helps me as a graphic recorder):
Challenges in Health Data Science as for example data sparsity and data availability
Transfer learning from different species... there are multiple datasets from animal what kind of information can be used in different species
Federated Learning which tackle the data storage and security in hospitals.. how can those data be used?
Interpretable and explainable AI which was my personal favorite part of the talk, how can humans get control of the model?
Morten Lindow
Morten is the new Head of the Center for Pharmaceutical Data Science Education (CPDSE). You can follow the new Center on LinkedIn, they are growing! Morten's talk was a presentation of the new Center.
Adam Hulman
Adam gave a very cool talk... almost like a pitch of his projects to be honest. I really liked how Adam started with a number, 113,738, sparking curiosity in each of us (or at least, in me). This number represents how many papers on AI are published per year.. which is indeed a lot.
Adam has multiple projects on his shoulder, the one he presented was about using the voice as a biomarker: StenoVoice.
I would love to be a participant of one his studies, and understanding how our larynx could be affected by changes in different diseases.
During Adam's talk, I was actually thinking about the work from Anne Hermes, working in the laboratory of phonetics and phonology in France.
Didem Gürdür Broo
Didem gave a talk about her work with robotics and intelligent system. As she mentioned, her background was different from most of the people in the room. I really like how Didem expressed that there should be a shift in mentality when using technology. The talk also referenced about the Data dilemma that was touched birefly in Hanneh-Christin's talk.
Richard Röttger
Richard introduced Screen4Care, a project to accelerate rare diseases diagnosis, composed by 37 different partners. I loved the metaphor that Richard used: finding a needle in a bunch of needles, which really gives the idea of how difficult is to be diagnosed with a rare disease. Richard showed also examples from the research, showing how important is to know the population that you are study.
Lighting Talks
Young scientists presenting their research in 3 minutes! Very fun to listen to and to draw! They were all very creative!
On a personal level, I loved being back at Panum, University of Copenhagen, and working once again with HeaDS. I used to be the Center Coordinator there before going fully in my own business. The people working there have been always really supporting and they really felt like a family. I am very grateful to have met them.
