Dr Al-Rahim Habib is an ENT Unaccredited Registrar at Westmead Hospital and a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Al-Rahim is exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) for paediatric Indigenous ear disease screening in rural and remote areas of Australia. Al-Rahim’s research is supported by the Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation, Microsoft’s AI for Humanitarian Action grant, and the Avant Mutual Foundation Doctor-In-Training research grant.