Merci, députée @A_Larouche_Shef, de soutenir nos innovations en suivi IA des moustiques et surveillance de la qualité de l'air! 🦟 🌍 Votre appui est précieux alors que nous déployons ces solutions au Canada. Impatients de collaborer!

Wonderful to reconnect with Senator @colindeacon.bsky.social and share the AI‑powered Mosquito Tracker we first discussed at Science Meets Parliament. His advocacy for science, innovation, and young Canadian researchers continues to inspire. Grateful for his leadership and support.

Showcasing our AI Mosquito Tracker and AI Air Monitoring System to the Secretary of State (International Development), Hon. @randeepssarai at the Global Health Security: A Parliamentary Science Fair. 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇

I can’t stop smiling each time I’m around Hon. Rob Oliphant! His support for our AI innovation, student capacity‑building, and Canada–Africa collaboration means more than words can say. Thank you for always showing up for communities in Canada and around the world. 🇨🇦🌍

Thank you Hon. Mike Lake for visiting our showcase table at the Made-in-Canada Solutions for Global Health Security: Parliamentary Science Fair and for the engaging conversation on our AI Mosquito Tracker & AI Air Quality Monitoring systems.

Made-in-Canada Solutions for Global Health Security: A Parliamentary Science Fair 🇨🇦 ! This picture was taken just after we completed setting up our AI Mosquito Tracker and AI Air Monitoring System for demonstrations to parliamentarians and senators!

🇨🇦 Showcased Made-in-Canada AI innovations for global health security at the Parliamentary Science Fair in Ottawa yesterday. Every Senator & MP in the room impressed me! asked: "What can we do to help?" and scheduled follow-ups. That's not just words; that's leadership. So proud

📢Our new paper is out! Physics-informed spatiotemporal analysis of methane in oil sands regions 🔹 PINNs + satellite + ground data 🔹 Captures extreme emissions 🔹 Physically consistent + robust Pushing toward reliable, real-world CH₄ monitoring. Thanks to @NSERC_CRSNG

Just delivered a keynote address on “Reimagining the Management of Zoonotic Diseases: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Disease Surveillance in Africa” at the Africa Digital One Health Webinar. Thank you to AI4PEP Nigeria for organizing such a great event

I am so looking forward to the event below. Please join us if you can 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 Registration link (free): lnkd.in/eUSVxhGT

Just gave a talk with the Black Physicians of Canada Mentorship Program on Reimagining Medicine with AI: HPI, Diagnostics, and Future of the Physician's Role AI will not replace physicians, but physicians who use AI will replace those who do not.

Grateful to the Global Cooperation Caucus for the opportunity to present our AI solutions for strengthening health systems across 23 countries, including Canada, and advancing global/glocal health security.

Honoured to keynote yesterday’s Nigeria Medical Association / Doctors Medical Aid Foundation / AI4SID webinar on AI in Clinical Practice & Health Systems. We discussed diagnostics, decision support, triage, workflow efficiency, surveillance.

In Munich for ESCMID Global 2026! I’ll be speaking on April 21 (Hall A2‑1) on AI‑supported respiratory virus surveillance—from multimodal deep‑learning early warning (56‑day forecasts) to next‑gen agentic AI for autonomous global monitoring. See you—let’s connect.

The DLSPH 2026 Global Health Symposium was a great success, bringing together members of the global health community to reflect, align, and renew priorities in support of DLSPH’s new Academic Plan. Grateful to colleagues from around the world for your thoughtful contributions.

Our new preprint is out! We use Physics‑Informed Neural Nets + symbolic regression to discover how risk perception, adaptive behavior, and surveillance bias shape epidemic transmission. Grateful to @NSERC_CRSNG for the support. 📄https://tinyurl.com/5n7uauks

🌍 As the world prepares for the One Health (OH) Summit (Lyon, 5–7 April 2026) and #WorldHealthDay, I spoke with @GHAdvocates on Data, AI & OH. We discuss: • Environmental data for prevention • Governance gaps in OH data • What leaders should deliver tinyurl.com/4x9fkjez

Thrilled to share that I’ve been appointed Adjunct Prof. in the School of Biomedical Eng. at @JimmaUniv Ethiopia. Excited to contribute to their bold vision in AI for Healthcare, including curriculum development, teaching, and mentoring the next generation of researchers.Onward!

Pleased to share our new work on Digital One Health / One Digital Health. Our analysis maps emerging trends & future directions at the intersection of human, animal, environmental, and digital health. Grateful to @IDRC_CRDI for supporting this work Link: tinyurl.com/2j22b7sc

📢 New Paper: "Breaking interprovincial data silos: how federated learning (FL) can unlock Canada’s public health potential" Novel framework integrating FL + AI governance to enable secure cross-jurisdiction health AI. 📷 tinyurl.com/3pwzuarj Thanks to @NSERC_CRSNG

📢 New Paper: "Breaking interprovincial data silos: how federated learning (FL) can unlock Canada’s public health potential" Novel framework integrating FL + AI governance to enable secure cross-jurisdiction health AI. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Thanks to NSERC for supporting this work.

Excited to be speaking tonight at the BrainSTEM Alliance and NSBE Professionals | National Society of Black Engineers Innovators in STEAM Event at the University of Toronto! My keynote: “From Community Problems to Co-Created Solutions: The Black AI Innovation Approach.”

Was a panelist at the UofT AI Ethics & Society Conference 2026! We dug into model deployment decisions, the accuracy vs. interpretability trade-off, and how accountability shifts as AI takes on more. Big thanks to @IlluminAI and Sofi for an outstanding event. 🙌

We welcomed Black students from Archbishop Denis O'Connor Catholic High School to @UofT's AI Labs 🎉 They toured cutting-edge labs, explored AI careers & programs — and left genuinely inspired. Grateful to @VectorInst, @FieldsInstitute & all our lab partners. More students coming this week! 🙌

One year ago Canada launched Canada’s Africa Strategy: A Partnership for Shared Prosperity and Security. Great to see the strategy moving into implementation with engagement of African diaspora Thks to Hon. Rob Oliphant for his leadership in advancing Canada–Africa relations.

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