Africa | Healthcare | Artificial Intelligence | Computer Science | Open Collaboration | Grassroots

Joined May 2021
Excited to share a project I’m extremely proud of, our publicly available health benchmark dataset, AfriMed-QA, which spans 60 medical schools, 30 specialties and 16 countries across Africa. The paper won the best social impact paper award at ACL 2025 in Vienna.
Introducing AfriMed-QA – the first large-scale pan-African dataset designed to help evaluate & develop optimized and effective LLMs for African healthcare.
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🌍 Excited to share a powerful seminar by Dr. Judy Gichoya (Emory Univ): “AI for African Healthcare: Beyond Chatbots Toward Contextually Informed Innovation.” 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/c8b7JjszYi0?si=Jwgz…
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SisonkeBiotik retweeted
Join us for session 3 of our #AI4Health seminar series 🧠 Evaluating the Impact of Skin Tone Representation on Out-of-Distribution Detection Performanxe in Dermatology 🎙️Speaker: @AssalaBenmalek 🗓️ Thurs, 3rd of July | 6PM GMT +2 🔗 Register now: cassyni.com/events/7G2u56ALW…
We’re back for Session 2 of our #AI4Health Seminar Series! 🧠 Bridging Neuroscience & AI: Deep Learning Models for Understanding Vision 
🎙 Speaker: Mai Gamal
🗓 Tue, June 17 | ⏰ 6PM GMT+2
📍 Free | Online | Open to all 🔗 Register now: cassyni.com/events/7PCJLG5Dc…
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Join us for session 3 of our #AI4Health seminar series 🧠 Evaluating the Impact of Skin Tone Representation on Out-of-Distribution Detection Performanxe in Dermatology 🎙️Speaker: @AssalaBenmalek 🗓️ Thurs, 3rd of July | 6PM GMT +2 🔗 Register now: cassyni.com/events/7G2u56ALW…
We’re back for Session 2 of our #AI4Health Seminar Series! 🧠 Bridging Neuroscience & AI: Deep Learning Models for Understanding Vision 
🎙 Speaker: Mai Gamal
🗓 Tue, June 17 | ⏰ 6PM GMT+2
📍 Free | Online | Open to all 🔗 Register now: cassyni.com/events/7PCJLG5Dc…
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Assala Benmalek is an AI/ML researcher who holds an MSc in Computer Engineering, her research focused on assessing the fairness of AI/ML techniques in dermatology. She also explored LLM alignment as part of her research internship at IBM Research Africa.
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✨ The DS4H Seminar Series is a space for learning, community, and impact. Join us for : •Certificate for 60% attendance •Prizes for the best question •African-led, global relevance 🌍 Be part of the future of AI in health. See you in Kigali !
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I am glad to speak at the #AI4Health Seminar Series. Thanks to @SBiotik, @DSI_Africa, and @RoyaCV4Africa for the invitation!
We’re back for Session 2 of our #AI4Health Seminar Series! 🧠 Bridging Neuroscience & AI: Deep Learning Models for Understanding Vision 
🎙 Speaker: Mai Gamal
🗓 Tue, June 17 | ⏰ 6PM GMT+2
📍 Free | Online | Open to all 🔗 Register now: cassyni.com/events/7PCJLG5Dc…
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Share your work with us at the Data Science 4 Health workshop @DeepIndaba in Kigali! 🎤 We're calling for Lightning Talks (3mins) from students, researchers & health innovators. Open to all! 
🔗 Submit now: forms.gle/1nkG2RnkQNQrzehh6
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📣 Be part of the Data Science for Health in Africa (DS4H) Workshop at @DeepIndaba in Kigali! In conjunction with @DSI_Africa @RoyaCV4Africa 🗓 Aug 21 
🌍 ds4healthafrica.github.io/ ⚡Sign up for a Lightning Talk - forms.gle/4JqwxitKNzi3FMZs8
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We are glad to collaborate with @SBiotik in hosting this online seminar series ahead of Deep Learning Indaba. Register to attend the talk from Dr. Mai Gamal, one of the few African women working on computational neuroscience and ML.
We’re back for Session 2 of our #AI4Health Seminar Series! 🧠 Bridging Neuroscience & AI: Deep Learning Models for Understanding Vision 
🎙 Speaker: Mai Gamal
🗓 Tue, June 17 | ⏰ 6PM GMT+2
📍 Free | Online | Open to all 🔗 Register now: cassyni.com/events/7PCJLG5Dc…
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We’re back for Session 2 of our #AI4Health Seminar Series! 🧠 Bridging Neuroscience & AI: Deep Learning Models for Understanding Vision 
🎙 Speaker: Mai Gamal
🗓 Tue, June 17 | ⏰ 6PM GMT+2
📍 Free | Online | Open to all 🔗 Register now: cassyni.com/events/7PCJLG5Dc…
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Mai Gamal is a Google PhD Fellow and researcher at the University of Toronto. She’s bridging AI and neuroscience to uncover how deep learning can help us decode vision and cognition.
Don't miss her insights on interdisciplinary innovation! #WomenInSTEM #AI4Science
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Why join us? ✨ The DS4H Seminar Series is a space for learning, community, and impact: •Free & online •Certificate for 60% attendance •Prizes for the best question •African-led, global relevance 🌍 Be part of the future of AI in health. See you in Kigali !
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We start TOMORROW! @loxioncode is opening the floor — and you don’t want to miss it! May 22 | 7PM GMT+2 We’re kicking off our #AI4Health seminar series with a deep dive into building offline-first, LLM-powered health tools. Join us: cassyni.com/events/S2frq4kHC…
We’re LIVE!
Join us as we kick off our AI x Health Seminar Series ahead of the Data Science for Health in Africa Workshop at @DeepIndaba in Kigali! First Session: Accelerating Medical Insights with RAG Date: May 22 | Time: 7PM GMT+2 Register now: lnkd.in/dSJiv4pA
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We’re LIVE!
Join us as we kick off our AI x Health Seminar Series ahead of the Data Science for Health in Africa Workshop at @DeepIndaba in Kigali! First Session: Accelerating Medical Insights with RAG Date: May 22 | Time: 7PM GMT+2 Register now: lnkd.in/dSJiv4pA
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Meet our first speaker: Elisha Bere
A software developer and AI enthusiast, Elisha is building decentralized patient records that combine LLMs, IoT, and image recognition to deliver real-time health insights. He’s passionate about applying AI for social good. Don’t miss it!
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What you get: Free & online every 3 weeks 60% attendance = certificate Best question = exciting prize Deep insights from African AI x Health pioneers Space to connect & grow
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We continue our seminar series this week with two intriguing talks: 🔹️3IR b4 4IR: Data Accessibility to Enable African Data Science in Health 🔹️Medical Data Governance and Sharing in Africa Join in this Thursday at cassyni.com/events/WMhzUEMeG…
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Exciting virtual seminar today @ 4PM GMT! Two groundbreaking talks: 🔸️Neural Architecture Search in Medical AI 🔸️AI & Foundation Models in Drug Development Join us: cassyni.com/events/QZ69BCWE7… (zoom link available 30mins before the event) #aiinhealthcare #HealthcareInnovation
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