In August 2025, the team shared new research at the Global Ophthalmology Summit, presenting global access mapping from the Actionable Data Initiative and glaucoma surgery findings from Ghana. The work highlights care gaps, surgical outcomes, and models that strengthen eye health in underserved regions.
The Financial Times featured Dr. Joan LaRovere’s application of her MIT Sloan Executive MBA to enhance the VFMatch platform, a key component of the Actionable Data Initiative, which connects physicians to underserved areas by addressing critical healthcare needs.
In August 2024, the Virtue Foundation shared findings from the Actionable Data Initiative at the Global Ophthalmology Summit, highlighting healthcare access gaps in Ghana and Mongolia. VFMatch offers maps for 72 low- and middle-income countries, identifying medical deserts across specialties.
Virtue Foundation at the 2024 Data + AI Summit highlights how the Actionable Data Initiative leverages AI and data analysis to address healthcare disparities in low- and middle-income countries, identifying underserved areas and driving global change through innovative partnerships.
In April 2024, Virtue Foundation joined the “Forging the Future of Business with AI” summit, where Dr. Joan LaRovere presented the Actionable Data Initiative, showcasing its use of AI to map healthcare facilities, identify medical deserts, and uncover insights to guide future medical and surgical missions in underserved regions.
In April of 2024, Morning Edition on radio station GBH sat down with Dr. Joan LaRovere to discuss how artificial intelligence and machine learning can transform global healthcare delivery by matching physicians to the areas where they can have the maximum impact.
Dr. Joan LaRovere presented Virtue Foundation’s health data insights at the 2023 Spatial Data Science Conference, discussing big data’s transformative role in healthcare.
Virtue Foundation showcased the progress it has made on its Data Mapping Initiative, at Dun & Bradstreet and Tableau Foundation’s Gallery Walk, highlighting a platform that uses predictive analytics to map the developing world to identify needs and match those needs with available medical care and resources.
Virtue Foundation co-hosted this notable annual event, which featured speakers ranging from former Secretaries of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Madeleine Albright to executives from Apple, Salesforce, P&G among others.
Together with Seneca Women and iCivics, Virtue Foundation co-hosted an event to engage Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a conversation on finding purpose and passion in life.