Hamish Fraser

Jan 29, 2025 | nature.com | Elizabeth Campbell |Hamish Fraser |Felix Holl |Harleen K. Marwah |Sansanee S. Craig

Climate change critically impacts global pediatric health, presenting unique and escalating challenges due to children’s inherent vulnerabilities and ongoing physiological development. This scoping review intricately intertwines the spheres of climate change, pediatric health, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a goal to elucidate the potential of AI and digital health in mitigating the adverse child health outcomes induced by environmental alterations, especially in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). A notable gap is uncovered: literature directly correlating AI interventions with climate change-impacted pediatric health is scant, even though substantial research exists at the confluence of AI and health, and health and climate change respectively. We present three case studies about AI’s promise in addressing pediatric health issues exacerbated by climate change. The review spotlights substantial obstacles, including technical, ethical, equitable, privacy, and data security challenges in AI applications for pediatric health, necessitating in-depth, future-focused research. Engaging with the intricate nexus of climate change, pediatric health, and AI, this work underpins future explorations into leveraging AI to navigate and neutralize the burgeoning impact of climate change on pediatric health outcomes.

Aug 28, 2024 | hcamag.com | Kristy Peacock-Smith |Hamish Fraser |Thomas Du

'Secondary purpose' for collecting information can trip up employers It is well known that there is an exemption to the requirements of the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Act), which means that an employer does not need to comply with the provisions of the Act in dealing with “employee records.” What is (and importantly is not) an employee record was the subject of a recent determination of the Australian Privacy Commissioner, ALI and ALJ (Privacy) [2024] AlCmr 131 (20 June 2024). An...

Aug 8, 2024 | lexology.com | Kristy Smith |Hamish Fraser |Thomas Du

It is well known that there is an exemption to the requirements of the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Act), which means that an employer does not need to comply with the provisions of the Act in dealing with ‘employee records’. What is (and importantly is not) an employee record was the subject of a recent determination of the Australian Privacy Commissioner, (‘ALI’ and ‘ALJ’ (Privacy) [2024] AlCmr 131 (20 June 2024)). What happened?

Jul 4, 2024 | lexology.com | Hamish Fraser |Aaron Chan |Carl Ritchie

With artificial intelligence (“AI”) on the agenda of countless boardrooms across Australia, the Australian Institute of Company Directors (in partnership with the Human Technology Institute at the University of Technology Sydney) has published the following suite of resources (“AI Governance Guidance”) to assist boards navigate the use of this transformative technology in an ethical and informed manner:1.

Jun 6, 2024 | lexology.com | Hamish Fraser |Julie Cheeseman |Emma Croft |Evelyn Park

On 3 June 2024, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) wrote to all APRA-regulated entities to emphasise its expectations regarding cybersecurity, specifically relating to data backups and protection against data loss. APRA called for businesses to promptly review and address gaps in any practices which could impede system restoration during the restoration phase of a cyber incident.