West Africa Center of Excellence for Data Science Research Education
The following grant was awarded by, is supported by, is administered by or is in partnership with the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Funding Fogarty Program
Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa)
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
West Africa Center of Excellence for Data Science Research Education
Principal Institution
University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Doumbia, Seydou; Shaffer, Jeffrey G
Project Contact Information
Email:
sdoumbi@gmail.com
Year(s) Awarded
2023–2026
Country
Mali
Collaborators
University of Conakry, Guinea
Tulane University
NIH Partners
OD/NIH
Project Description
Innovative public health research, such as data science approaches, are critical to address challenges related to the burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases in sub-Saharan African countries. However, there is limited human resources with skills and expertise in data sciences to harness the value of a breadth of diverse, large, and complex clinical and biomedical data sets generated through international partnerships.
This project will build interdisciplinary teams across multiple institutions capable of using innovative quantitative and analytical approaches to generate and apply new knowledge from large or complex sets of data in the region. The project will strengthen existing institutional research training programs to address the needs for optimal use and processing of large and complex data sets using advanced data science approaches. It will facilitate partnership among researchers and local faculty and stakeholders for future implementation of data sciences research.
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