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Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius


  • Dr Rose Nakasi - Participant

    Automated Mobile Microscopy for Malaria Diagnosis and surveillance in Uganda (Contact-PI)

    Dr Rose Nakasi holds a PhD in Computer Science from Makerere University, where She is also a Lecturer at the College of Computing and Information Sciences as well as a Research Scientist at the Makerere Artificial Intelligence Lab. She is a Chair for Topic Group "AI based detection of Malaria" (TG-Malaria) at the ITU/WHO/WIPO-Global Initiative AI for Health (GI-AI4H). Dr Rose leads the Makerere Health Intelligence lab that is specilising in advancing Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for developing automated tools and techniques for improved health especially in low resourced settings. She is a Principal investigator for the DS-I Malaria project under the DS-I Africa consortium funded by the NIH to support effective malaria diagnosis and surveillance in Uganda.