In October 2023, a cholera outbreak surfaced in Lusaka, Zambia. Machine learning techniques were used to investigate if THINKMD’s data exhibited syndromic signals related to diarrheal illnesses that could have forewarned of the cholera outbreak risk.
I had the pleasure of presenting at the IiH Innovator Networking Session on March 15th, where myself and Angel Chelwa, VP Operations for Healthy Learners in Zambia, discussed the topic of “From innovation pilots to scale”.
Originally published on the DefeatDD blog. While a lot of attention has been dedicated to the health and well-being of children less than five years old, the needs of older children and adolescents have been historically neglected. As a result, school-aged children...