About
The MADIVA Research Hub aims to develop data science techniques and solutions to tackle the problem of multimorbidity in Africa – the problem of multiple co-occurring diseases significantly adding to the health burden in Africa. Our primary research sites in rural Bushbuckridge, South Africa and urban Nairobi, Kenya each have rich data sets from longitudinal studies collected by the health and demographic surveillance systems based there, together with a nascent set of clinical health records and genomic data.
We will develop and apply data science techniques to link the different data sets, build dashboards for different stakeholders and apply new machine learning techniques to automatically stratify populations for risk profiles to different diseases, including the use of polygenic risk scores.
Aims
The Hub will develop the people, processes and technologies for improvements in healthcare, public health and research in Africa through developing data science capacity on the continent. Working with an interdisciplinary team at different sites in Africa we will build novel data sets and new data science methods and tools that can be applied to alleviating the health burden of multimorbidity in Africa.
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