Loved being in Addis at the #CHOICE Working Group kick-off! 🌍💡 Connecting with global health & AI innovators to advance ethical AI in LMICs. Gave a talk on decolonizing AI ethics—ensuring AI serves local communities. #AIforHealth #GlobalSouth

Day 1 at the @CEPIvaccines , @WHOAFRO & @AfricaCDC meeting on AI for pandemic preparedness (PP) and vaccine R&D I presented: Equitable Access in Epidemic Intelligence & Vaccine R&D: Insights from @Ai4Pep Great discussions on AI, data governance, and CEPI’s PPX for Disease X

Thank you Prof. Lukong for the invitation to keynote at the University of Saskatchewan Black History Month Research Symposium 2026. From village pathways to AI-driven health systems — and empowering youth through Agentic AI & Ask a Black Mathematician.

February Spotlight #5 🦠🧠 Our new paper benchmarks ChatGPT-4o, Grok, Gemini 1.5 Pro & DeepSeek R1 for avian flu risk communication + real-time decision support across stakeholder scenarios. Big promise—needs role-aware evaluation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New publication! Our study shows that behavioural change + targeted vaccination can significantly reduce mpox transmission in the DRC — with vaccination of children having the greatest impact. Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New publication! Our modeling study shows that pre-exposure vaccination in high-risk populations is key to preventing mpox resurgence in Canada. Without it, mpox could become endemic. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper: How are #DigitalHealth & #OneHealth converging in the Global South? Using a gender-sensitive Delphi + latent semantic analysis, we identify structural drivers, emerging issues & overlooked weak signals shaping future health governance. 🔗 www.jmir.org/2026/1/e78702/

📘 New chapter: Bridging the AI Divide in Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Multidisciplinary Applications. Advancing equitable access to compute & data. Grateful to @IDRC_CRDI for the support. 🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New publication 🚨 AI-driven ST-CAN for high-resolution methane prediction, validated in the Athabasca oil sands region. More accurate, robust, and interpretable climate monitoring. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to @NSERC_CRSNG #AI #Methane #ClimateTech

📢Publication spotlight We introduce an AI-driven ST-CAN model for high-resolution methane prediction, validated in the Athabasca oil sands region. Improved accuracy, robustness during satellite data gaps, and enhanced interpretability for climate monitoring. Thanks #NSERC_CRSNG

INDICIUM STEM_Fellowship – #AIMMLab 2026 🌟 Welcome Keishi Suzuki, a UofT Math & CS student, to our #Indicium cohort! His interests span #MachineLearning robustness & healthcare. Over the next 16 weeks, he’ll be supervised by Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social. Project details soon. 🏆 #STEMFellowship #AI

🤖 Silent cyber threats: How unchecked use of shadow AI (including for #translation) could undermine a country's digital health defences theconversation.com/silent-cyber... by @dzevela.bsky.social & AbbasYazdinejad via @theconversation.com

Honored to represent the Canadian Black Scientists Network at Centennial Presbyterian Church in Calgary for Black History Month! I shared my STEM journey—breakthroughs, challenges, and the impact of our work across Canada & the Global South. Inspired by the brilliance of these young minds.

Another feather cooking from Ethiopia! 🇪🇹 After Shey and Abusuapanyin… perhaps next will be Gosa/Shum! As we await this new feather, I simply want to say: Thank you, Ethiopia, for the incredible hospitality. I am grateful beyond words. You are indeed the capital of Africa.

Looking forward to speaking this Afternoon at the Coalition for Health AI Innovation and Ethics (CHOICE) Kick-off Meeting in Addis Ababa I’ll be sharing reflections on Decolonizing AI Ethics: Principles and Practices in LMICs.

Looking forward to speaking this Afternoon at the Coalition for Health AI Innovation and Ethics (CHOICE) Kick-off Meeting in Addis Ababa I’ll be sharing reflections on Decolonizing AI Ethics: Principles and Practices in LMICs.

Greatmeeting in Addis Ababa today with colleagues from the Ethiopian Ministry of Health! We had a rich discussion on the National Health Innovation Strategy, explored priority projects, & identified opportunities for collaboration in addressing these key priorities.

What a joy hosting Johannah (Leadership by Design Grade 11), Her thoughtful questions about my journey, challenges, and our work across Canada & Africa made for such an engaging conversation. Grateful for programs that link Black youth with Black leaders in the workplace.

It was a pleasure hosting Ms. Hong from the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare We discussed AI work across @dlsphjournalism.bsky.social (incl. @aimmlab.bsky.social) improving patient care & safety, and AI already deployed in Canadian hospitals to detect high-risk patients. Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦

Big thanks to Davide Montesarchio for your talk in our lab last Friday (Jan 30, 2026) on science communication—loved it. 🙏 “Science is not finished until it’s communicated.” 💡

Thank you Prof Veillard for inviting me to your Global Quality of Care course to speak on AI + digital innovation for quality of care & patient safety. Key message: impact at scale—especially in LMICs—depends on governance, implementation, and context.

🚨 New Publication: We show how web-based, environmental & climatic data + historical cases improve early warning of avian influenza in Canada using deep learning. GRU models were most accurate; Facebook activity & temperature also key. 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

🚨 New Preprint | AI-Powered Mosquito Surveillance 🦟Vector-borne diseases cause 700k+ deaths/yr, hitting low-resource regions hardest We present MosquitoTrack: a low-cost, AI-enabled IoT system for real-time, offline mosquito surveillance using acoustic & environmental sensing

Day 1 of the @AIM_Sciences Workshop on Formal Scientific Modeling: A Case Study in Global Health. It was great catching up with Prof. Baez and engaging with his lecture on leveraging category theory for scientific modeling.

In Caltechfor the AIM Workshop on Formal Scientific Modeling: A Case Study in Global Health. Looking forward to catching up with colleagues, exploring new collaborations, & working together on advancing modeling approaches to address complex challenges in global health

It was a pleasure welcoming the CEO of Aviro Health, to @aimmlab.bsky.social today We explored exciting opportunities for collaboration between Aviro and AIMMLab, including Point-of-Need technologies. We look forward to developing this collaboration further.

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉 Thank you all for making 2025 amazing—61+ publications, AI solutions strengthening healthcare, and incredible teamwork. Grateful to our funders & team. Excited for 2026!

New preprint: Equity-first governance for LLMs in digital health. We audited LLaMA-3.2, Mistral-7B & DeepSeek (450 culturally grounded prompts, FNMWCF). Takeaway: technical adequacy ≠ equitable adequacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #DigitalHealth #HealthEquity #ResponsibleAI

🚨 Faculty jobs in Canada 🇨🇦 | Open to international researchers The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program is recruiting globally across Canadian universities in areas like AI, health, climate, food & water, clean tech, democracy, manufacturing & defence tinyurl.com/dj9zbm9k

🧬 New preprint out! HPAI in Canada 🇨🇦 We identify national & local HPAI hotspots using spatial analysis + ML. Key drivers include waterfowl density, poultry premises, vegetation & air quality—supporting targeted, risk-based surveillance. Link: tinyurl.com/2xm2rf39

☺️ African Society for Mathematical Epidemiology — December meeting was 🔥 Great Ask a Mathematical Epidemiologist session on internship opportunities across Africa and career pathways in #MathEpi. So inspiring to see the passion and growth of our community. Looking forward to January!

I am deeply honored to be appointed as a Massey Senior Fellow and Massey Scholar on AI and Humanitarianism. I am profoundly grateful to God and to the Massey College community for this opportunity and for their trust. I look forward to contributing to and supporting the College’s vision

I am very much looking forward to this important event tomorrow, organized by @ai4pep.bsky.social DRC in partnership with WHO AFRO and the Ministry of Public Health, Looking forward to seeing everyone there as we advance AI-driven, community-centered solutions for universal health coverage

Grateful to IDRC for the opportunity to join the 2025 Annual Public Meeting as a panelist on how locally led research creates measurable impact. We discussed Southern leadership, evidence-to-action, and resilient futures.

🌟 At IDRC’s Annual Meeting, AIMMLab Director Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social was glad to connect with Ms. Chaitali Sinha, whose support continues to strengthen AI4PEP’s community-driven work across the Global South. Grateful for her leadership and partnership. #IDRC #AI4PEP #AIMMLab

No surprises here—Canada at #1 feels right! 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇

Please check out our latest article: “Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine our digital health defences.” 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 theconversation.com/silent-cyber...

Last week, I hosted Prof. Romulo de Castro & team from AI4PEP Philippines at @aimmlab.bsky.social .Together with AI4PEP Ethiopia, we celebrated AI solutions strengthening healthcare systems & explored new collaborations. Thank you for the productive visit!

Loved hosting undergrad students from CURE at AIMMLab yesterday! 🌟 Their curiosity and excitement for research is inspiring. Thank you for visiting — we can’t wait to have you back!

Thank you @unhcrcanada.bsky.social for this beautiful medal! Such a thoughtful gesture 👇👇👇👇👇👇 👇

Great meeting @KellyTClements and @TraceyMaulfair at the UNHCR Canada “Philanthropy Beyond Borders” Conference on Nov 19. Thank you for the hospitality & for the vital work you do around the world. 🙏 Thanks also to Nader El Nakib — looking forward to collaborating.

Honoured to speak at UNHCR Canada’s Philanthropy Beyond Borders on innovation in philanthropy. Shared our AI telehealth work for refugees, our Agentic AI youth training, and the upcoming AI4Refugees partnership with UNHCR Canada + Nobellum. Grateful for the inspiring leaders I met.

Incredible meeting with @MadeleineChenet at Science Meets Parliament! 🚀 We discussed building AI literacy, strengthening community bonds, and developing responsible AI with input from STEM, humanities & social sciences. Truly inspired by your vision & leadership.

Science Meets Parliament: Meeting with Hon. Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health It was a pleasure to meet with Honourable Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health, during the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health while in Ottawa for the Science Meets Parliament event.

Great meeting Senator @colindeacon.bsky.social at Science Meets Parliament. Shared our MosquitoTrack 🦟 AI + IoT system and our Agentic AI for Youth program empowering students to build responsible AI. Thank you, Senator!

Science Meets Parliament Meeting with MP Vincent Ho Met to discuss the Agentic AI for Youth Program — kids learning AI, solving real community problems, and some leaving with their own AI business! Excited to explore supporting the Science & Research Committee.

🚨 New in @ConversationCA: Shadow AI is quietly putting Canada’s digital health system at risk. Clinicians using public AI tools for notes + translations may be unknowingly leaking patient data outside secure networks. Read more: doi.org/10.64628/AAM...

✨In Ottawa for Science Meets Parliament! 🇨🇦⚖️🔬 Hon. @Rob_Oliphant , Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is brilliant, funny & deeply committed to Canada & Africa. Discussed my lab’s responsible AI work & @IDRC_CRDI global impact. Excited for tomorrow!

Amazing @src-rsc.bsky.social ! It was bittersweet saying goodbye to such wonderful friends & colleagues, but I’m excited about the bonds we built in such a short time—& the research collaborations already taking shape.Thank you all for making the conference so inspiring and unforgettable

Honoured that VP Research & Innovation Prof. Leah Cowen sought me out tonight to congratulate me. Truly grateful for her thoughtful, people-centred leadership.