Peer-Reviewed Publication
Nat Med2026October 6, 2026Letter
MAGIC: an international network for evaluating generative artificial intelligence in global health.
Rui Yang1,2,3, Weihao Xuan4,5, Tianyu Liu6,7, Danielle S Bitterman8, Gary S Collins9,10, Karthik Adapa11,12, Kwesi Nyan Amissah-Arthur13,14, Tianxi Cai15,16, Simão Campos17, Hanqun Cao18, Josip Car19,20, Carol Y Cheung21,22, Mona Diab23, Chido Dzinotyiwei24,25, Siqi Ge1,26, Marzyeh Ghassemi27,28, Ethan Goh29,30, Benjamin Alan Goldstein31, Mary-Anne Hartley32,33,34, Yulan He35, Pheng Ann Heng18, Chuan Hong31,36, Michelle María Jiménez de Tavárez37, Yuhe Ke26,38,39, Pearse A Keane40,41,42, Eva C Keller17, Rubayat Khan43, Phuoc V Le44,45, Marc Lecoultre17, Jisan Lee46,47, Huitao Li1,26, Yuan Luo48, Vukosi Marivate49,50,51, Bilal A Mateen9,52, Melissa D McCradden53,54,55, Maryam Mustafa56, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende57,58, Yilin Ning1,26,59, Jasmine Chiat Ling Ong26,60, Yifan Peng2,3,61, Sameer Pujari62, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi56, Dino Rech63,64, Iain Beehuat Tan65,66,67, Patrick Tan65,68,69, Douglas Teodoro70, Yih Chung Tham71,72,73, Arun James Thirunavukarasu74, Daniel Shu Wei Ting73,75,76, Lorainne Tudor Car20,77, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci78,79, Chunhua Weng80, Matthew Yu Heng Wong81, Yunze Xiao23, Xuhai Xu80, Carl Yang82, Naoto Yokoya4,5, Kunyu Yu1,26, Chaofan Zhang83, Rui Zhang84, James Zou85,86, Karel G M Moons87, Nigam H Shah30,88,89, Tien Yin Wong90,91,92, Eric J Topol93, Nan Liu94,95,96,97,98
1Centre for Biomedical Data Science, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
2Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
3Systems Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
4Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan.
5RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan.
6Interdepartmental Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
7College of AI, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
8Mass General Brigham and Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
9Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
10National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
11Division of Healthcare Engineering, Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
12World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India.
13Eye Unit, Department of Surgery, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana.
14Lions International Eye Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
15Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
16Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
17International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland.
18Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
19School of Life Course and Population Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
20King's Population Health Institute, King's College London, London, UK.
21Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
22Lam Kin Chung, Jet King-Shing Ho Glaucoma Treatment and Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
23Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
24Department of Development Finance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
25Vambo AI, Johannesburg, South Africa.
26Duke-NUS AI + Medical Sciences Initiative, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
27Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
28Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
29Division of Computational Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
30Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
31Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
32Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
33Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
34Koita Centre for Digital Health, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.
35Department of Informatics, King's College London, London, UK.
36Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA.
37Department of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic.
38Department of Anesthesiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
39Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
40Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK.
41Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
42NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK.
43Endless Foundation, Westport, CT, USA.
44College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam.
45School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
46Department of Nursing, Kangwon National University, Wonju, Korea.
47Clinical Informatics Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
48Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
49African Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AfriDSAI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
50Data Science for Social Impact (DSFSI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
51Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
52PATH, London, UK.
53Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
54Women's and Children's Health Network, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
55SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
56Department of Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
57Makerere University Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kampala, Uganda.
58Department of Computer Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
59Programme in Health Services Research & Population Health, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
60Division of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
61Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Digital Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
62Department of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Health Systems Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
63Audere, Johannesburg, South Africa.
64Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
65Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
66Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
67Office of Deputy Group Chief Medical Informatics Officer (Research), Singapore Health Services, Singapore, Singapore.
68Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore.
69Precision Health Research Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
70Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
71Centre for Innovation and Precision Eye Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
72Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
73Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore.
74International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
75Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
76Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
77Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
78Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
79Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
80Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
81School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
82Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
83Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
84Division of Computational Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
85Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
86Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
87Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
88Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
89Technology & Digital Solutions, Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
90Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore. ophwty@nus.edu.sg.
91Beijing Visual Science and Translational Eye Research Institute (BERI), Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital Eye Center, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. ophwty@nus.edu.sg.
92School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. ophwty@nus.edu.sg.
93Scripps Research Translational Institute, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA.
94Centre for Biomedical Data Science, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore. liu.nan@duke-nus.edu.sg.
95Duke-NUS AI + Medical Sciences Initiative, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore. liu.nan@duke-nus.edu.sg.
96Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. liu.nan@duke-nus.edu.sg.
97Programme in Health Services Research & Population Health, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore. liu.nan@duke-nus.edu.sg.
98NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. liu.nan@duke-nus.edu.sg.
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