A Full Day Workshop at Deep Learning Indaba

Following previously successful workshops (2022, 2023, 2024), the Data Science For Health in Africa (DS4Health) workshop will be returning this year to Deep Learning Indaba happening at Kigali, Rwanda on 21st August, 2025 as a full day workshop. As healthcare experience significant transformations due to advancements in data analytics and deep learning, this workshop seeks to bridge the gap and empower stakeholders in Africa's healthcare ecosystem by bring together researchers, practitioners, and healthcare professionals to explore how deep learning can enhance healthcare outcomes across the continent.

Our goals for the workshop are to :

  • Celebrate/spotlight data science research in health from African researchers.
  • Bring together researchers and communities working on Digital Health related problems across Africa through data science.
  • Promoting collaboration across traditional and emerging research efforts in data science for health in Africa.
  • Establish sustainable partnerships between healthcare practitioners and data scientists.

2025
August 21st

Kigali, Rwanda

100+
Attendees

5+
Speakers

Speakers

Michael Best

Professor at School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology

Sanmi Koyejo

Asistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.

Rose Nakasi

Head, Makerere University AI Health Lab

Arjit Patra

Senior Principal Scientist at UCB Biopharma UK / University of Glasgow.

Tobi Olantunji

Machine Learning Scientist and Founder/CEO of Intron Health

Jay Patel

Director of Technology at Jacaranda Health.

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Programme

Workshop Day

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Arrival of Participants

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Workshop Introduction and Icebreaker on Expectations

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Keynote speaker

Prof Sanmi Koyejo

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Question and Answer

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Panel discussion

State of AI Health research in Africa and opportunities for involvement

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Break

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Ideathon Kickoff

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Unconference

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Interactive Tutorial on designing a research idea on health data science and common pitfalls to avoid

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Lunch

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Design Dash for Idea Building

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Lightning Talks

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Break

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Keynote Speaker 2

Dr Tobi Olatunji

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Questions and Answers

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Idea Brainstorm Session, Brief Group Report and Workshop Wrap Up

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Workshop social - after hours discussions

Lightning Talk presentation

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Organizing committee

Ashery Mbilinyi

(University of Victoria)

General Chair

Lukman E. Ismaila

(Johns Hopkins University)

Sponsor Chair

Taliya Weinstein

(Imperial College London)

Program Chair

Location of Event

University of Rwanda


Kigali
Rwanda