TY - JOUR
T1 - Health data science revolution in Africa
T2 - potential for addressing the myriad health challenges
AU - Amegah, A. Kofi
AU - Kyobutungi, Catherine
AU - Chimusa, Emile R.
PY - 2025/12/5
Y1 - 2025/12/5
N2 - Africa carries a disproportionate share of the global burden of disease. The potential for data science to spur health discoveries and catalyze innovation is enormous, offering new opportunities for Africa to circumvent its complex health challenges. This commentary intends to provide actionable recommendations to scientists, communities, and development partners, including science funders, governments, and private sectors, on what needs to be done on the African continent to realize this potential, building on a recent activity harnessing the expertise of African data scientists towards a collection of papers to be published across the Nature portfolio journals.
AB - Africa carries a disproportionate share of the global burden of disease. The potential for data science to spur health discoveries and catalyze innovation is enormous, offering new opportunities for Africa to circumvent its complex health challenges. This commentary intends to provide actionable recommendations to scientists, communities, and development partners, including science funders, governments, and private sectors, on what needs to be done on the African continent to realize this potential, building on a recent activity harnessing the expertise of African data scientists towards a collection of papers to be published across the Nature portfolio journals.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105024126748
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-025-66928-w
DO - 10.1038/s41467-025-66928-w
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 41345390
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 16
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 10919
ER -