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Connecting with @DSI_Africa colleagues around the globe this week at the annual DS-I Africa Consortium event. Dr Phelelani Mpangase, below, and other members of the MADIVA team presented some of the great work currently in play at Monday's networking event.

#ICYMI Early Career Researchers went on an excursion to the University of Mauritius, Reduit Campus 🇲🇺 for academic and networking exchange. DS-I Africa ECR and University of Mauritius ECR presented their ongoing research. The participants were given a detailed tour of the Centre

Day 3 of the 4th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting currently underway in Mauritius kicked off with a plenary session on ‘Innovative Tools and Solutions: Addressing Challenges in DS-I Africa- sharing and repurposing tools and resources’. Prof Bubacarr Bah gave a keynote presentation

Research Professor - Roche Chair in Precision Medicine and Genomics in Africa

Skyler presented on the work they do at IBM which is aimed at improving models and getting the models to ‘behave’. He said “The race going forward is not about bigger models, the race going forward is smaller, more specialised models.” #DSIAfrica2024 #DataScience

Very useful presentation from our collaborators

eLwazi ODSP is in Mauritius for the fourth @DSI_Africa consortium meeting. Over the weekend, we had two initiatives: the Data Bootcamp and the Large Language Models workshop 💻. Today marked the start of the meeting, with a lineup of great speakers on AI, ML, and Data Science.

Dr Michelle Skelton has just welcomed the participants to the 4th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting - Opening Session currently underway in Mauritius 🇲🇺 We are looking forward to learning, engaging and supporting each other in our work to advance data science in Africa.

During the refreshment break, our Early Career Researchers presented in the first poster session. The different topics included “Accelerating Big Data Harmonisation” and “Assessing the role of haematological traits on kidney function in Africans” We are looking forward to the

Day 1 of the 2024 REDCap Africa Symposium held at The Wanderers Club, Johannesburg has concluded. We had amazing talks from the speakers including DS-I Africa representation from @TinoMuzambi who spoke on Streamlining Data Collection for the DS-I Africa Coordinating Centre and

Day 3 of 5 of our annual MADIVA ( https://t.co/ufBefti16m) research hub training workshop done & dusted! Thanks to Paul Harris & Roy Zent from @VUMChealth for all the great learnings shared so far @DSI_Africa @IBMResearch @MRCza @WitsUniversity

Our annual MADIVA ( https://t.co/ufBefti16m) research hub training workshop in partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center kicks off today in Joburg. Excited to hear talks from special guests Paul Harris and Roy Zent as well as our enthusiastic early career researchers.

Successful All Hands meeting for MADIVA. The younger members did all the intellectual work, the older generation made practical contributions to dealing with multimorbifity

MADIVA’s All Hands Meeting starts today at @aphrc

As the Data Science Program navigates the evolving landscape of health research in Africa, its commitment to data governance, sharing, & state of the art analytics becomes increasingly apparent... Read more on page 32: https://t.co/sxBrmtjo5O. #WeAreAfrica #APHRCResearch

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We look forward to continuing our collaborative work next year

Thanks to the @DSI_Africa Coordinating Centre for the fantastic job you did in organising the 2023 Consortium Meeting and to @Fogarty_NIH for its ongoing support

The enthusiastic MADIVA team at the @DSI_Africa Consortium