Publications
Total publications: 229
A "Parenting Licence" Granted by One’s Existing Children? Critical Analysis of the Judgment in Ex Parte JCR 2022 5 SA 202 (GP)
DSI-LAW (2023)
A Scoping Review of Preterm Births in Sub-Saharan Africa: Burden, Risk Factors and Outcomes
UZIMA-DS (2022)
A collaborative approach to advancing research and training in Public Health Data Science— challenges, opportunities, and lessons learnt
APHREA-DST (2024)
A data transfer agreement template for South Africa v1.1
DSI-LAW (2024)
A deep population reference panel of tandem repeat variation
eLwazi (2023)
GCAP (2023)
A multimodal framework for extraction and fusion of satellite images and public health data
MUDSReH (2024)
A pathway to strengthening open science: comments on the draft South African Ethics in Health Research Guidelines
DSI-LAW (2024)
A pathway to strengthening open science: comments on the draft South African Ethics in Health Research Guidelines
DSI-LAW (2024)
Alignment-Free Viral Sequence Classification at Scale
INFORM (2024)
An assessment of the genomic structural variation landscape in Sub-Saharan African populations
DDD-Africa (2024)
An imbalanced approach to governance? An analysis of the WHO's position on human genome editing
DSI-LAW (2023)
An introduction to digital determinants of health
MUDSReH (2024)
Artificial intelligence and machine learning for early detection and diagnosis of colorectal cancer in sub-Saharan Africa
UZIMA-DS (2022)
Artificial intelligence in healthcare: Proposals for policy development in South Africa
DSI-LAW (2022)
Assent, parental consent and reconsent for health research in Africa: thematic analysis of national guidelines and lessons from the SickleInAfrica registry
PUBGEM-Africa (2022)
Benefit-sharing with human participants in health research in South Africa: A call for clarity
DSI-LAW (2024)
Beyond Race: A Wake-up Call for Drug Therapy Informed by Genotyping
PUBGEM-Africa (2022)
Building a house without foundations? A 24-country qualitative interview study on artificial intelligence in intensive care medicine
MUDSReH (2024)
COVID-19 vaccination refusal trends in Kenya over 2021
UZIMA-DS (2023)
Characterize Human Mobility in Nigeria During Flooding Season and Its Impact in Shaping the Spread of Covid-19
INFORM (2024)
Children as participants in health research in South Africa: A response to Labuschaigne, Mahomed and Dhai
DSI-LAW (2023)
Classification of Pneumonia, Tuberculosis and Covid-19 from Chest X-Ray Images Using Convolution Neural Network Model
APHREA-DST (2024)
Clinical Translation of Genomics Research in Africa—Mainstreaming Medical Ethics, Equity, Genetics Education, and public engagement
PUBGEM-Africa (2025)
Cohort Profile: Africa Wits-INDEPTH partnership for Genomic studies (AWI-Gen) in four sub-Saharan African countries
DDD-Africa (2025)
Competency-based Training Needs Assessment for Research Managers and Administrators in Africa and the United Kingdom to Strengthen Equitable Partnerships
PUBGEM-Africa (2022)
Cross-border data sharing through the lens of research ethics committee members in sub-Saharan Africa
REDSSA (2024)
DF-DM: A foundational process model for multimodal data fusion in the artificial intelligence era
MUDSReH (2024)
DS-I Africa Consortium: Harnessing the power of partnerships for data science in Africa
DSI-CC (2023)
NIH (2023)
Data as scientific currency: Challenges experienced by researchers with sharing health data in sub-Saharan Africa
REDSSA (2024)
Data management and sharing
PUBGEM-Africa (2025)
Data protection legislation in Africa and pathways for enhancing compliance in big data health research
DSI-LAW (2024)
PUBGEM-Africa (2024)
Data protection legislation in Africa and pathways for enhancing compliance in big data health research
PUBGEM-Africa (2024)
Data science research in sub-Saharan Africa: Ethical considerations in crowdsourcing for community engagement
REDSSA (2023)
Data sharing governance in sub-Saharan Africa during public health emergencies: Gaps and guidance
REDSSA (2022)
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing in South Africa: Stumbling over the first legal hurdle?
DSI-LAW (2022)
Dispersal patterns and influence of air travel during the global expansion of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
eLwazi (2023)
INFORM (2023)
Drop the shortcuts: image augmentation improves fairness and decreases AI detection of race and other demographics from medical images
MUDSReH (2024)
Dynamics and ecology of a multi-stage expansion of Oropouche virus in Brazil
eLwazi (2024)
INFORM (2024)
Eco-bio-communitarianism: reimagining bioethics for sustainable health
PUBGEM-Africa (2025)
Epistemic justice, African values and feedback of findings in African genomics research
PUBGEM-Africa (2022)
Ethical Oversight of Data Science Health Research in Africa
BridgELSI (2024)
Ethical issues in genomics research in persons with Alzheimer’s Disease/Alzheimer’s Disease-related dementia (AD/ADRD): a systematic review
BridgELSI (2024)
Ethics and governance challenges related to genomic data sharing in southern Africa: the case of SARS-CoV-2
INFORM (2022)
Ethics and governance challenges related to genomic data sharing in southern Africa: the case of SARS-CoV-2
REDSSA (2022)
INFORM (2022)
Ethnicity, Geographical Region and Ancestry as Population Level Descriptors for Genomics Studies in Africa: Public Engagement is Needed
PUBGEM-Africa (2023)
Evaluating the Spatial-Temporal Impact of Urban Flooding on Mobility Patterns and Point of Interest
INFORM (2024)
Exploring perspectives of research ethics committee members on the governance of big data in sub-Saharan Africa
REDSSA (2023)
FLT1 and other candidate fetal haemoglobin modifying loci in sickle cell disease in African ancestries
PUBGEM-Africa (2025)
Factors of acute respiratory infection among under-five children across sub-Saharan African countries using machine learning approaches
WASHA-Takwimu (2024)
First Do No Harm: Legal Principles Regulating the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care in South Africa
DSI-LAW (2022)
Five Priorities of African Genomics Research: The Next Frontier
PUBGEM-Africa (2022)
Forcing a square into a circle: why South Africa’s draft revised material transfer agreement is not fit for purpose
DSI-LAW (2024)
Genome, HLA and polygenic risk score analyses for prevalent and persistent cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infections
BridgELSI (2024)
Genomics and Health Data Governance in Africa: Democratize the Use of Big Data and Popularize Public Engagement
PUBGEM-Africa (2024)
Global Expansion of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern: Dispersal Patterns and Influence of Air Travel
INFORM (2023)
Global Expansion of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern: Dispersal Patterns and Influence of Air Travel
INFORM (2022)
Greig cephalopolysyndactyly contiguous gene syndrome in a Congolese patient co-occurring with sickle cell anemia, and review of literature
DDD-Africa (2024)
HIV-DRIVES: HIV drug resistance identification, variant evaluation, and surveillance pipeline
MakDARTA (2024)
Health data ecosystem in Pakistan: a multisectoral qualitative assessment of needs and opportunities
UZIMA-DS (2023)
Health facilities preparedness to deliver maternal and newborn health care in Kilifi and Kisii Counties, Kenya
UZIMA-DS (2023)
Heat Impacts, Adaptations and Inequities
HE2AT (2024)
High Incidence of Tuberculosis in Young Children Living With HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa
INSITE (2025)
High-dimensional population inflow time series forecasting via an interpretable hierarchical transformer
INFORM (2022)
How to interpret core concepts in POPIA? Recommendations on the draft Code of Conduct for Research
DSI-LAW (2023)
Impacts of heat exposure in utero on long-term health and social outcomes: a systematic review
HE2AT (2024)
Implementing Smartphone-Based Telemedicine for Cervical Cancer Screening in Uganda: Qualitative Study of Stakeholders’ Perceptions
DS-IAFRICA-TB (2023)
Importance of Including Non-European Populations in Large Human Genetic Studies to Enhance Precision Medicine
PUBGEM-Africa (2022)
Insights into SARS-CoV-2 in Angola during the COVID-19 peak: Molecular epidemiology and genome surveillance
INFORM (2023)
Intergenerational spillover effects of antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review and future directions for research
WASHA-Takwimu (2023)
Is there a need for graduate-level programmes in health data science? A perspective from Pakistan
DSSD (2023)
Legal and ethical principles governing the use of artificial intelligence in radiology services in South Africa
DSI-LAW (2023)
Leveraging long short term memory in air pollution prediction in Nairobi
APHREA-DST (2024)
Leveraging our common African origins to understand human evolution and health
PUBGEM-Africa (2023)
Liability for harm caused by AI in healthcare: an overview of the core legal concepts
DSI-LAW (2023)
Living with multiple chronic conditions cuts lives short – but Africans are overlooked in research
MADIVA (2025)
Looking ahead: ethical and social challenges of somatic gene therapy for sickle cell disease in Africa
PUBGEM-Africa (2024)
Machine learning-based prediction of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from Uganda
MakDARTA (2024)
Managing and assembling population-scale data streams, tools and workflows to plan for future pandemics within the INFORM-Africa Consortium
eLwazi (2023)
REDSSA (2023)
INFORM (2023)
Measuring fairness preferences is important for artificial intelligence in health care
MUDSReH (2024)
Mental health and psychological well-being of Kenyan adolescents from Nairobi and the Coast regions in the context of COVID-19
UZIMA-DS (2023)
Navigating the complexities of AI-enabled real-world data collection for oncology pharmacovigilance
MUDSReH (2024)
Non-cigarette Tobacco Use and Stroke Among West Africans: Evidence From the SIREN Study
GRASP (2023)
Obesity and Risk of Hypertension in Preadolescent Urban School Children: Insights from a Developing Country
UZIMA-DS (2024)
One lesson of COVID-19: Conduct more health policy trials
WASHA-Takwimu (2022)
Open science and human genetic data: recommendations on South Africa’s Draft National Open Science Policy
DSI-LAW (2023)
Ophthalmology Optical Coherence Tomography Databases for Artificial Intelligence Algorithm: A Review
MUDSReH (2024)
Ownership of personal information?
DSI-LAW (2024)
Participant views on practical considerations for feedback of individual genetic research results: a case study from Botswana
PUBGEM-Africa (2023)
Peer review of GPT-4 technical report and systems card
MUDSReH (2024)
Perceptions and preferences for genetic testing for sickle cell disease or trait: a qualitative study in Cameroon, Ghana and Tanzania
PUBGEM-Africa (2024)
Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization–Lancet Neurology Commission
GRASP (2023)
Predicting Respiratory Diseases Attributed to PM2.5 Air Pollution in Nairobi County Using Random Forest Model
APHREA-DST (2024)
Prediction of perinatal death using machine learning models: a birth registry-based cohort study in northern Tanzania
WASHA-Takwimu (2020)
Prevalence and Factors Associated With Alcohol-Related Road Traffic Injuries in Cameroon
D-SINE (2024)
Prevalence of familial hypercholesterolemia in a country-wide laboratory network in Pakistan: 10-year data from 988, 306 patients
UZIMA-DS (2023)
Priorities for sickle cell disease global research and implementation
PUBGEM-Africa (2024)
Prognostics of multiple malaria episodes and nutritional status in children aged 6 to 59 months from 2013 to 2017 in Dangassa, Koulikoro region, Mali
WACE-DSRE (2024)
Promoting data harmonization to evaluate vaccine hesitancy in LMICs: approach and applications
UZIMA-DS (2023)
Public health research using cell phone derived mobility data in sub-Saharan Africa: Ethical issues
REDSSA (2023)
Pushing the boundaries of rare disease diagnostics with the help of the first Undiagnosed Hackathon
DDD-Africa (2024)
Racial Disparity in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Treatment and Survival in the United States
Leveraging-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-based-technology-to-overcome-specialized-training-and-technology-barriers-for-the-diagnosis-and-prognostication-of-colorectal-cancer-in-Africa (2024)
Raising awareness of potential biases in medical machine learning: Experience from a Datathon
MUDSReH (2023)
Re-evaluating early-onset OSCC in Africa: findings of minimal cumulative incidence
leveraging_artificial_intelligence_machine_learning_based_technology_to_overcome_specialized_training_and_technology_barriers (2024)
Reconciling the ideals of open science with data privacy in the context of health research in Nigeria: A legal analysis
DSI-LAW (2023)
Reevaluating Early-Onset ESCC in Africa: Findings of Minimal Cumulative Incidence
UZIMA-DS (2024)
Leveraging-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-based-technology-to-overcome-specialized-training-and-technology-barriers-for-the-diagnosis-and-prognostication-of-colorectal-cancer-in-Africa (2024)
Regulating scientific and technological uncertainty: The precautionary principle in the context of human genomics and AI
REDSSA (2023)
Research and the meaning of ‘public interest’ in POPIA
DSI-LAW (2022)
Research participants' perspectives regarding the feedback of secondary findings-A cohort from the DDD-Africa study, South Africa
DDD-Africa (2023)
Response to Brand et al. (2022) ‘Data sharing governance in sub-Saharan Africa during public health emergencies’
DSI-LAW (2023)
Revealing human mobility trends during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Nigeria via a data-driven approach
INFORM (2023)
Revealing human mobility trends during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Nigeria via a data-driven approach
REDSSA (2023)
INFORM (2023)
Revisiting community engagement methods in the context of data science research and big data use in South Africa
REDSSA (2023)
Rotavirus in Water Environments: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
DS-ZOOFOOD (2024)
SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in pregnant women in Kilifi, Kenya from March 2020 to March 2022
UZIMA-DS (2023)
Science and Society: Pathways to Equitable Access and Delivery of Genomics Medicine in Africa
PUBGEM-Africa (2025)
Scoping Review of Climate Change Adaptation Interventions for Health: Implications for Policy and Practice
HE2AT (2024)
Setting up data science research in Africa and engagement of stakeholders
REDSSA (2023)
INFORM (2023)
South Africa’s move toward open science
DSI-LAW (2023)
Streamlining regulatory processes for health researchers: To what extent does POPIA apply?
MADIVA (2023)
Structure-Activity Relationship Study to Develop Peptide Amphiphiles as Species-Specific Antimicrobials
CAMRA (2024)
The African Society of Human Genetics successfully launches global data science workshops
COBIP (2023)
PUBGEM-Africa (2023)
The African Society of Human Genetics successfully launches global data science workshops
PUBGEM-Africa (2023)
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Coronary Heart Disease: the Next Surge
UZIMA-DS (2023)
The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: competing interests and optimism bias
HE2AT (2024)
The dawn of a cure for sickle cell disease through CRISPR-based treatment: A critical test of equity in public health genomics.
MakDARTA (2024)
The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance
INFORM (2022)
The future of sickle cell disease therapeutics rests in genomics
PUBGEM-Africa (2023)
The human genome as the common heritage of humanity
DSI-LAW (2023)
The multidimensional legal nature of personal genomic sequence data: A South African perspective
DSI-LAW (2022)
The promise of data science for health research in Africa
BridgELSI (2023)
The proposed Code of Conduct for Research in South Africa: despite good progress, unresolved issues remain
DSI-LAW (2024)
The regulation of health-related direct-to-consumer genetic tests in South Africa by the Medicines and Related Substances Act
DSI-LAW (2024)
The role of an ethics advisory committee in data science research in sub-Saharan Africa
REDSSA (2023)
The socioeconomic gradient of alcohol use: an analysis of nationally representative survey data from 55 low-income and middle-income countries
WASHA-Takwimu (2022)
The wisdom of claiming ownership of human genomic data: A cautionary tale for research institutions
DSI-LAW (2024)
Towards a data transfer agreement for the South African research community: The empowerment approach
DSI-LAW (2023)
Towards equitable genomics governance in Africa: Guiding principles from theories of global health governance and the African moral theory of Ubuntu
PUBGEM-Africa (2022)
Transferring ownership of human sperm, eggs, and embryos
DSI-LAW (2023)
Unmasking biases and navigating pitfalls in the ophthalmic artificial intelligence lifecycle: A narrative review
MUDSReH (2024)
Unraveling Neonatal Sepsis: Sharper Tools Needed for Unexpected Organisms Get access Arrow
CAMRA (2023)
Variation in monitoring: Glucose measurement in the ICU as a case study to preempt spurious correlations
MUDSReH (2024)
What does it mean to be an agent?
DSI-LAW (2023)
Who would own the HeLa cell line in South Africa?
DSI-LAW (2023)
Why federated learning will do little to overcome the deeply embedded biases in clinical medicine
MUDSReH (2024)
Why the South African National Health Research Ethics Council is wrong about ownership of human biological material and data
DSI-LAW (2025)
Why the idea of genomic sovereignty should be abandoned
DSI-LAW (2023)
Data management and sharing
PUBGEM-Africa
FLT1 and other candidate fetal haemoglobin modifying loci in sickle cell disease in African ancestries
PUBGEM-Africa
High Incidence of Tuberculosis in Young Children Living With HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa
INSITE
Living with multiple chronic conditions cuts lives short – but Africans are overlooked in research
MADIVA
An assessment of the genomic structural variation landscape in Sub-Saharan African populations
DDD-Africa
Benefit-sharing with human participants in health research in South Africa: A call for clarity
DSI-LAW
DF-DM: A foundational process model for multimodal data fusion in the artificial intelligence era
MUDSReH
Data protection legislation in Africa and pathways for enhancing compliance in big data health research
DSI-LAW
PUBGEM-Africa
Data protection legislation in Africa and pathways for enhancing compliance in big data health research
PUBGEM-Africa
Evaluating the Spatial-Temporal Impact of Urban Flooding on Mobility Patterns and Point of Interest
INFORM
Genomics and Health Data Governance in Africa: Democratize the Use of Big Data and Popularize Public Engagement
PUBGEM-Africa
HIV-DRIVES: HIV drug resistance identification, variant evaluation, and surveillance pipeline
MakDARTA
Impacts of heat exposure in utero on long-term health and social outcomes: a systematic review
HE2AT
Looking ahead: ethical and social challenges of somatic gene therapy for sickle cell disease in Africa
PUBGEM-Africa
Navigating the complexities of AI-enabled real-world data collection for oncology pharmacovigilance
MUDSReH
Ophthalmology Optical Coherence Tomography Databases for Artificial Intelligence Algorithm: A Review
MUDSReH
Pushing the boundaries of rare disease diagnostics with the help of the first Undiagnosed Hackathon
DDD-Africa
Racial Disparity in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Treatment and Survival in the United States
Leveraging-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-based-technology-to-overcome-specialized-training-and-technology-barriers-for-the-diagnosis-and-prognostication-of-colorectal-cancer-in-Africa
Re-evaluating early-onset OSCC in Africa: findings of minimal cumulative incidence
leveraging_artificial_intelligence_machine_learning_based_technology_to_overcome_specialized_training_and_technology_barriers
Reevaluating Early-Onset ESCC in Africa: Findings of Minimal Cumulative Incidence
UZIMA-DS
Leveraging-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-based-technology-to-overcome-specialized-training-and-technology-barriers-for-the-diagnosis-and-prognostication-of-colorectal-cancer-in-Africa
The wisdom of claiming ownership of human genomic data: A cautionary tale for research institutions
DSI-LAW
An imbalanced approach to governance? An analysis of the WHO's position on human genome editing
DSI-LAW
Dispersal patterns and influence of air travel during the global expansion of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
eLwazi
INFORM
Global Expansion of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern: Dispersal Patterns and Influence of Air Travel
INFORM
Health data ecosystem in Pakistan: a multisectoral qualitative assessment of needs and opportunities
UZIMA-DS
How to interpret core concepts in POPIA? Recommendations on the draft Code of Conduct for Research
DSI-LAW
Is there a need for graduate-level programmes in health data science? A perspective from Pakistan
DSSD
Managing and assembling population-scale data streams, tools and workflows to plan for future pandemics within the INFORM-Africa Consortium
eLwazi
REDSSA
INFORM
Participant views on practical considerations for feedback of individual genetic research results: a case study from Botswana
PUBGEM-Africa
Promoting data harmonization to evaluate vaccine hesitancy in LMICs: approach and applications
UZIMA-DS
Public health research using cell phone derived mobility data in sub-Saharan Africa: Ethical issues
REDSSA
Raising awareness of potential biases in medical machine learning: Experience from a Datathon
MUDSReH
Revealing human mobility trends during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Nigeria via a data-driven approach
INFORM
Revealing human mobility trends during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Nigeria via a data-driven approach
REDSSA
INFORM
The African Society of Human Genetics successfully launches global data science workshops
COBIP
PUBGEM-Africa
The African Society of Human Genetics successfully launches global data science workshops
PUBGEM-Africa
A Scoping Review of Preterm Births in Sub-Saharan Africa: Burden, Risk Factors and Outcomes
UZIMA-DS
Data sharing governance in sub-Saharan Africa during public health emergencies: Gaps and guidance
REDSSA
Epistemic justice, African values and feedback of findings in African genomics research
PUBGEM-Africa
Ethics and governance challenges related to genomic data sharing in southern Africa: the case of SARS-CoV-2
REDSSA
INFORM
Global Expansion of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern: Dispersal Patterns and Influence of Air Travel
INFORM
Importance of Including Non-European Populations in Large Human Genetic Studies to Enhance Precision Medicine
PUBGEM-Africa
The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance
INFORM