Data for Health in Africa Meeting
&
5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
23 - 29 August 2025
CEDI Centre, University of Ghana, Accra
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Registration is NOW OPEN for the DS-I Africa Annual Datathon & Tool-a-Thon which will take place on the weekend ahead of the Data for Health in Africa & 5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting (Ghana) in August.
The event will be take place at the Cedi Centre, University of Ghana
Sign up for EITHER the Datathon OR Tool-a-Thon stream
Agenda overview:
Sat 23 Aug: Stream 1: Datathon and Stream 2: Tool-a-Thon hosted in concurrently
Sun 24 Aug: Datathon and tool-a-thon specific activities
Team presentations of interpretations and findings
Organizers:
DS-I Africa Coordinating Centre, eLwazi- ODSP, INFORM-Africa, MUDSReH, HE2AT Centre and MADIVATheme:
Indigenous Innovation with African Tools and DataLearning Objectives:
- Understand how the African knowledge base integrated with contemporary technologies can drive context-specific solutions.
- Gain hands-on experience using locally-developed tools, and datasets to analyze and solve problems relevant to African communities and environments.
- Effectively interpret and communicate your findings during team presentations
Tools, Datasets and Resources
Datathon stream |
Tool-a-thon stream |
Presented by Mbarara University Data Science Research Hub (MUDSReH) the datathon is aimed at identifying and addressing bias in medical imaging AI. This is part of the bigger mission to advance equitable and ethical health technologies across the African continent. Curated datasets include MODRIA and AVEMap, focused on mitigating diagnostic bias. The datasets contain rich clinical and metadata collected during routine medical imaging procedures from patients in Uganda. |
The human mobility tool was developed by the INFORM-Africa and tested on publicly available datasets https://github.com/villanova-transportation/Human-Mobility-Data-Hub The land surface temperature (LST) tool was developed by the HE2AT Centre and IBM Research Africa and tested on publicly available datasets https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-geospatial-land-surface-temperature |
Audience
Trainees, data scientists, data wranglers, machine learning experts, social scientists,
biologists, clinicians
(Each stream limited to 35 participants)
Teams
Teams will consist of members from across various disciplines
Before the event
Registrants may access free online training available on DataCamp. More information to follow
Kindly sign up here https://redcap.h3abionet.org/redcap/surveys/?s=TMMRX3FLWWF7JYWAno later than Fri 18 July 2025 at 23:59 CAT
Please reach out to Rolanda.Julius@uct.ac.za should you have questions,