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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


  • Prof Nicola Mulder - Speaker

    eLwazi ODSP: Open Data Science Platform (Contact-PI)

    Prof Mulder heads the Computational Biology Division at the University of Cape Town. She led H3ABioNet, a Pan African Bioinformatics Network across 17 countries for 12 years, which developed bioinformatics capacity to enable genomic data analysis in Africa. She currently leads the Harnessing Data Science for Health in Africa Open Data Science Platform and co-leads a Wellcome Discovery Data Integration Platform, and a Sickle Cell Data Coordinating Centre at UCT. She previously worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, as a Team Leader. At UCT her research focuses on genetic determinants of susceptibility to disease, African genome variation, and microbial genomics and infectious diseases. Her group provides bioinformatics services and develops new algorithms for the analysis of complex African genetic data. She is actively involved in Bioinformatics capacity development globally and sits on a number of international scientific advisory boards.