Veronica Blanco Gutierrez

Veronica is a nurse and midwife with over 15 years of experience in research, audit and clinical roles, both in the private and public sector in Spain and the UK. Veronica is undertaking an EPSRC-funded doctoral research at the University of Bristol, which focuses on the incorporation of Social Determinants of Health into AI-driven decision support tools during labour for hypoxia prediction. The potential for this work is to reduce adverse neonatal outcomes, reduce health disparities and provide personalised care. Veronica is passionate about involving women at every step of the research and innovation processes and is leading a project titled “Engaging and involving women from underserved communities in AI research in the context of labour care and digital health”. Veronica is also planning on exploring the implications of algorithmic (un)fairness and the impact of data bias in the context of labour monitoring.