NSUK Scholar Advances Global Health with AI in Portugal

Mr. Idris Salawu, a Cohort 1 graduate in Molecular Biology and Genomics from the Global Health Infectious Disease Institute (GHIDI)-NSUK, has secured a prestigious fellowship at a top institute in Porto, Portugal.

Mr. Salawu is focusing his innovative work on Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically leveraging it to tackle critical global health challenges and advance public health resilience.

His research projects are at the forefront of digital disease management and surveillance, including study in arbovirus transmission, enhancing digital disease surveillance systems, predicting dengue incidence, assessing climate disaster impacts on health, and detecting SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Mr. Salawu is part of a new group of five African students from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) undertaking master's projects in Portugal, all united by a determination to harness the power of AI.

This achievement is a major success, further placing GHIDI-NSUK on the global map!