Publications, Talks & Presentations

[2025] Guidelines for Developing and Implementing AI-Powered Health Decision Support Technologies in Drug Outlets(preprint)

These guidelines are meant to provide recommendations related to the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the frontline drug shop ecosystem to close the critical gap between healthcare acc...

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[2025] Baseline Assessment of Drug-Drug Interaction Knowledge Among Healthcare Providers in Kibaha, Tanzania(preprint)

In the context of global health, the ability of frontline primary health providers to identify potential Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs) is a critical component of patient safety. This is particularly t...

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[2025] Rust at the Last Mile in Healthcare

This session covers how one team uses Rust to power health technologies, decision support algorithms, and health devices across Subsaharan Africa and the US. Rust makes reaching the last mile of healt...

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[2024] Using digital technology as a platform to strengthen the continuum of care at community level for maternal, child and adolescent health in Tanzania: introducing the Afya-Tek program

Inadequate care within Tanzania’s primary health system contributes to thousands of preventable maternal and child deaths, and unwanted pregnancies each year. A key contributor is lack of coordination...

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[2023] Understanding how the use of AI decision support tools affect critical thinking and over-reliance on technology by drug dispensers in Tanzania

The use of AI in healthcare is designed to improve care delivery and augment the decisions of providers to enhance patient outcomes. When deployed in clinical settings, the interaction between provide...

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[2018] Synthetic patient generation: A deep learning approach using variational autoencoders

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is a new and exciting frontier and the possibilities are endless. With deep learning approaches beating human performances in many areas, the logical next step is...

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