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09:00 - 09:15 |
Welcome Session
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Justina Mashiba, Acting Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board, Universal Communication Service Access Fund (UCSAF), Tanzania [
Biography ]
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Peter
Ulanga, Retired Chief Executive Officer, Universal Communication Service Access Fund (UCSAF), Tanzania [
Biography ]
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09:15 - 10:15 |
Session 1: Introduction of ITU/WHO Focus Group on "AI for Health" and Keynote
The session will frame the AI4H workshop by providing an overview of the activities of the FG and the topics and aspects that the FG and workshop would like to address including opportunities for standardization of AI solutions for health. It will highlight how AI and machine learning can revolutionize healthcare in the areas of clinical decision support, personalized medicine, augmented diagnosis capabilities, medical imaging interpretation, therapeutic purposes and disease prevention. The session will provide an overview of the process and methodology of benchmarking AI algorithms for health, along with approaches and challenges to algorithms assessment. It will discuss how standardization process can lead to responsible adoption of algorithmic decision-making tools and to improving the accuracy of the algorithms. It will describe the proposal of a highly available system/ infrastructure for benchmarking the algorithms.
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10:15-10:45
| Coffee Break
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Session 2: Applications and Use Cases of AI in Health
How can artificial intelligence assist humans in diagnostics and medical decision making? This session will provide best practices for the applications of AI in Health, covering different medical and health domains, e.g. radiology and ophthalmology, and will create a common ground for further discussions and for the subsequent workshop sessions.
Moderator: Naomi Lee, FG-AI4H Vice-Chair; Executive Director (Digital), The Lancet, United Kingdom [
Biography ]
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Darlington Ahiale Akogo, Founder, minoHealth, Ghana [
Biography |
Presentation ] minoHealth AI Labs: The Potentials of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics In African Healthcare
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Nada Malou, Antibiotic Resistance Diagnostic and Surveillance Advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), France [ Biography | Presentation ] AI as a tool to tackle antimicrobial resistance: ASTapp project
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Ally Salim Jr, Founder & CEO, Inspired Ideas, Tanzania [
Biography |
Presentation ] AI in the Clinical Setting
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Franck Verzefé, Founder & CEO, True-Spec Africa, Cameroon
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William Wasswa, Head of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Department/Assistant Lecturer, Mbarara University, Uganda [ Biography |
Presentation ]
Availability of datasets for AI research in Africa and a way forward
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12:45 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
14:00 - 14:30
| Keynote speech
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H.E. Sira Ubwa Mamboya, Minister for Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation Zanzibar
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14:30 - 15:45 |
Session 3: Regulations & Country Priorities
This session will discuss existing AI initiatives in countries, related AI strategies, AI adoption maturity models, and priority health use cases that can benefit from AI for Health. The session will also highlight the need to align the health solutions with WHO global goals for health in terms of health outcomes, scalability and inclusiveness.
Moderator: Manjula Singh, Indian Council of Medical Research, India
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Irene Masanja, Senior Scientist, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania [
Biography |
Presentation ]
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Hassan Mshinda, Consultant, Foundation Botnar, Tanzania &Salim Abdulla, Clinical Epidemiologist and former Chief Executive Director, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania [
Biography ]
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Hong Liang (for Peng Liang, Vice Chair of FG-AI4H WG-Regulatory; Director), CMDE, National Medical Products Administration, China (remote) [
Biography |
Presentation ]
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Elaine Nsoesie, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University, USA [
Biography |
Presentation ] Internet Data & Chronic Diseases in Africa
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Gibson Kibiki, Executive Secretary and CEO, East African Health Research Commission, Burundi [
Biography |
Presentation ]
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15:45 - 16:15
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Coffee Break
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16:15 - 17:45
| Session 4: Fundamentals of AI in Health
Moderator: Shan Xu, FG-AI4H Vice-Chair, CAICT, China
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Rose Nakasi, PhD Researcher at the AI LAB in Makerere University, Uganda [
Biography |
Presentation ] AI based Microscopy diagnosis of Malaria
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Darlington Shingirirai Mapiye, Research Scientist, IBM Africa, South Africa & Sekou L Remy, Research Scientist, IBM Africa, Kenya [
Presentation ]
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Zhang Zhen, Senior Engineer, Alibaba Cloud, China [
Biography |
Presentation ]
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Mayassa Salum Ally, DIrector-General, Zanzibar Health Research Institute, Tanzania [
Biography | Presentation ]
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Dorah Peter, eShangazi Project Manager, IndexLabs, Tanzania [
Biography |
Presentation ] Using A.I. to break cultural stigma in Sexual and Reproductive Health
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17:45 - 18:00 |
Closing Session
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Manjula Singh, Scientist, Division of Epidemiology & Communicable Diseases (ECD), Indian Council of Medical Research, India
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