Data for Health in Africa Meeting
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5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
23 - 29 August 2025
CEDI Centre, University of Ghana, Accra

Dr Emmy Mugisha - Travel Awardee

SYNthetic Healthcare DAta Platform for Data SciEnce Training ('SYNAPSE') (Program Faculty)

Dr. Emmy MUGISHA, male, Rwandan by nationality is currently a Senior Lecturer from the Department of Computer Science, College of Science and Technology, The University of Rwanda. He holds a Ph.D in engineering, specifically in computer science and technology from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), China. Dr. Emmy is affiliated to the African Center of Excellency in Internet of Things (ACEIoT) as a Senior lecturer and researcher. He has been recently appointed by the college as Health Informatics (Msc.) program coordinator from Regional Center of Excellency in Biomedical Medical Engineering and E-Health (UR-CEBE), College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda. He is also a visiting senior lecturer from the University of Lay Adventist of Kigali. Dr. Emmy has conducted research from diverse areas of interests include Data storage and security, trusted computing, provenance data, cloud computing, and is shifting to new direction such as eHealth and Public Health. He has published more than 10 articles from peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Emmy has extensive experience in managing multidisciplinary research teams towards a digital health related research project (Research Training in Data Science for Health in Rwanda (DST-HIRWA) & Synthetic Healthcare Data Platform for Data Science Training (SYNAPSE)), the NIH funded projects.