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Public Health Intelligence

Harnessing AI and swarm algorithms to model pathogen spread, power disease surveillance, and deliver predictive tools that protect communities and save lives.

Public Health Intelligence

Public Health Intelligence

Our epidemiological modeling platform uses swarm algorithms to track pathogen spread in real-time. By simulating agent-based interactions at massive scales, we provide health authorities with predictive tools that are 40% more accurate than traditional statistical models. We collaborate with the Ghana Health Service and WHO Africa to deploy these tools at the community level, bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and ground-level public health interventions.

Stochastic Modeling Edge AI Biostatistics Privacy Preservation GIS Mapping Time Series

Key Research Topics

Epidemic Forecasting

Agent-based simulation of outbreak trajectories with 14-day predictive horizons across district-level geographies.

Geospatial Surveillance

Real-time mapping of disease clusters using satellite imagery, mobile health data, and IoT sensor networks.

Privacy-Preserving Analytics

Federated learning pipelines that extract population-level health insights without centralising individual patient records.

Healthcare Delivery Optimisation

Resource allocation models that route vaccines, personnel, and equipment during surge events using reinforcement learning.

Current Projects

SwarmEpi: Decentralised Epidemic Tracker

A real-time epidemic tracking platform using swarm-optimised agent-based models, piloted across 5 regions of Ghana with the Ghana Health Service. Generates 14-day disease spread forecasts 40% more acc…

Active · 2024–2026
Python Mesa TensorFlow Apache Kafka PostGIS React
FedHealth: Federated Health Intelligence Network

Connects 12 district hospitals in a federated learning network, enabling joint training of disease prediction models on EHR data without raw patient data leaving each hospital.…

Active · 2025–2027
PySyft Federated Learning NLP PostgreSQL D3.js Docker
VaxRoute: Vaccine Cold-Chain Optimisation

Reinforcement learning agents that dynamically re-route vaccine distribution during supply disruptions, reducing cold-chain wastage by an estimated 23% in Ghana's Northern Region.…

Pilot · 2025
Python Stable-Baselines3 OR-Tools FastAPI Flutter PostgreSQL

Related Publications

2024 · International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Healthcare Networks

Justice Kwame Appati, Sarah Jenkins, et al.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

2023 · Nature Communications: Health AI
Predictive Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Viral Outbreak Containment

Sarah Jenkins, Justice Kwame Appati

Nature Communications: Health AI

Interested in Collaborating?

We welcome partnerships with institutions, NGOs, and researchers working at the frontier of AI and this domain.