The PUBGEM-Africa project was represented at the 2023 World Sickle Cell Day which was organised by the Ghana Institute for Clinical Genetics at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Monday July 19, 2023
As part of 2022 World Sickle Cell Day celebrations, we held a science café at the University of Cape Town with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) patients and their caregivers.
Medical imaging offers substantial value beyond mere visual diagnostics, serving as crucial data for research, biomarker development, and AI algorithm testing. Advances in high throughput computing have spurred interest in transforming digital medical images into quantifiable data for research and machine learning.
Public Understanding of Big data in Genomics Medicine in Africa (PUBGEM-Africa), in partnership with the mobile genomics in Africa project (mGenAfrica) and the Metro South District (MSED) (WCED), will be engaging high school learners to foster literacy and interest in ethical, legal and social issues related to genomics and big data in medicine and healthcare on 27 August, 2022