CDRISK3: Multimorbidity in Africa: Digital Innovation, Visualization, and Application (MADIVA)

The MADIVA project aims at understanding multimorbidity and the effect of public health interventions. The ultimate goal of the MADIVA project is to develop fundamental data science methods and tools to address multimorbidity in different African settings through working with an interdisciplinary team at different sites in Africa. This entails harmonisation and data integration from heterogeneous data sources, including surveys, clinical records, laboratory data, and verbal autopsy data, and creating visualization dashboards for different stakeholders in order to explore the data for public health decision-making and for research purposes. We are developing software models to identify and predict multimorbidities in African populations

Project Period: 2022-2026

Funder: NIH (USA)

Partners:

• University of Witwatersrand
• MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt Unit)
• IBM Research Africa
• South African Population Infrastructure Research Network – SAPRIN. 

Project Team:

• Catherine Kyobutungi
• Gershim Asiki
• Samuel iddi
• Patrick Owili
• Isaac Kisiangani
• Diana Owour
• Daniel Maina
• Frank Ouma