2019 HEALTH INNOVATIONS CONFERENCE PROGRAMME BOOKLET

2019 HEALTH INNOVATIONS CONFERENCE UGANDA MARCH 19-20 SERENA HOTEL PROGRAMME BOOKLET Sustainable health in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Sustainable health in the Fourth

SUSTAINABLE HEALTH IN THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 2019 Health Innovations Conference uganda PROGRAMME BOOKLET Tuesday March 19, 2019 — Day 1

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00 -9:10 Welcome and housekeeping

9:10 - 9:30 Opening of the conference by the Chief Guest

9:30 -10:50 Keynote session: Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Health and what the opportunities for health are • Kwame Rugunda, Opportunities for Blockchain Crypto( Savannah) • Steve Ollis (Global Digital Health Forum) • Mike Tartakovsky (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)) • Brian Woodfall (Janssen) Moderator: Andrew Kambugu/Elly Katabira

10:50 – 11:15 Tea break

ROOMS KATONGA HALL ACWA HALL ADDIS HALL Accelerating innovations People Products and processes Bioinformatics and Emerging (Panel session) (Demonstrations, Big Technologies Machines)

11:15 – 13:00 Entrepreneurship in Machines for Health Machine Learning/AI Health Moderator: Eugene Swinnerstone Moderator: Daniel Mutembesa Moderator: Kwame Miheso/ Isaac Lwanga Rugunda/ Andrew AI Lab – Ocular the Malaria Application Rose Nakasi Kambugu Harnessing robotics for health — Solomon King (Fundi Bots) Using deep learning to improve antimicrobial Education in the private peptide recognition health sector Safety and efficacy of Dan Veltri (NIAID) Ian Clarke, Clarke Group intravenous treatment regimens for Cryptococcal Meningitis - Artificial intelligence applications in Health Chatbox John Mark Philippa Ngaju (UIRI) Joyce Nabende (AIR Lab, ) Bwanika, (TMCG) Pneumonia Jacket – -Omics: Moderator: Daniel Mutembesa Entreprenuership — Brian Turyabagye (SkyApps) Advances in computational metagenomics for Natalie Bitature (Simba understanding the role of the microbiome in Group) Neonatal Resuscitator human health Mariam Quiñones (NIAID) Data Santorino (MUST) Lessons learnt in HIV transmission dynamics and OMICs activities entreprenurship AITOPYA: A medical AI service- at MRC/UVRI - Deo Ssemwanga (MRC Uganda) Nazeem Mohammed Jonna Bertfelt (Byon8 AB) (Kampala Pharmaceutical Merging AI with Data Science and statistics Industries) Agnes Kiragga (IDI) 13:00-14:00 Lunch break – Remember to vote for your favourite poster!

14:00 - 15:00 Lightening talks on selected posters (Moderator: Dathan Byonanebye)

The Ugandan framework for Ideas around service delivery Virtual Reality (VR) Talks 15:00-16:30 digital health (Panel session) to underserved populations in Moderator: Meghan McCarthy/ Phillip Moderator: Cissy Kityo/Sylvan Uganda (round table) Cruz Kaboha Moderator: Alex Muganzi /Steven Why now? Pauline Byakika Okoboi Darrell Hurt (NIAID) (East African Secretariat) Island population health service Walking through proteins-applying Innovation Governance - delivery - Samuel Katumba (SDI) Virtual Reality to structural biolog Michael Niyitegeka (Clarke Phillip Cruz (NIAID) University) Healthy Entrepreneurs How VR is revolutionizing the learning Intellectual Property Law and Health Cooperatives: A low tech experience and improving medical what it means for innovation - solution to ensuring affordable diagnoses Bowmans International health care for all Ugandans - Britt Steve Garrou - (NIAID) Cruz (Health Partners)

16:30-17:00 Networking - Arts session- HIV Exhibition and Painting Session

Sustainable health in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - #hic2019 2 2019 Health Innovations Conference uganda PROGRAMME BOOKLET Wednesday March 20, 2019 — Day 2 8:00-8:45 Registration

8:45- 9:45 Panel discussion: A shared language – how we can work together across disciplines for innovation Moderator: Rossalind P. Ratanshi/Regina Kamoga 9:45-10:45 • HIV exhibition: Sylvia Matovu TASO( ) • Pictures of Ageing: Allen Kabagenyi (Dep’t of Population studies, Makerere) • Bruno Sserunkuma (Artist,Margaret Trowell School of Fine ART) • Rachel King Social Scientist, UCSF( ) Using Warehouse and Analytics to Advance Scientific Discovery: Advances in Vaccines for Relevance and bringing arts into Moderator: Mike Tartakovsky Global Health with Janssen Developing a data warehouse for Rakai Moderator: Elly Katabira innovation for health and social change; Round table Health Services: Anthony Ndyanabo Bringing transformational Moderator: Rachel King/ Sylvia Matovu (RHS) vaccines to the world in areas of Behold the Art: Changing Minds, Healing TB Portals: Leveraging clinical, genomic, high unmet need, the examples and imaging data to advance TB of Ebola and HIV vaccines, Lives - Katherine Ellington (World research Darrell Hurt (NIAID) Valerie Oriol Mathieu House Medicine) (Janssen) Student-led innovations to solve health Using analytics for differentiated HIV care Innovation at Janssen across 3Ps problems among university communities Rosalind Parkes Ratanshi (IDI) – Filimin Niyongabo, (Makerere SPH) – Projects, Programs/Process, Updating the Biomedical Data Science and People Rolands Tibirusya (Artist) Ecosystem at the National Institutes of Brian Woodfall (Janssen) Bruno Sserunkuma (Artist) Health (NIH – Andrea Norris) 10-45 – 11:00 Tea break and networking

11:00 – 12:30 Health innovations for global Opportunities for applications and The PRISM project (Moses Kamya) Health security and urbanisation innovations H3N project (Moses Joloba) Moderator: Barbara Castelnouvo Moderator: Michael Niyitegeka/Agnes Kiragga Education and Other Training Innovations in KCCA (community - refill and ART access) MY cpdz Zimbabwe - Admore Jokwiro Resources Moderator: Daudi Jingo Joanita Kigozi (IDI) (Zimbabwe Telemedicine Network) Skills and Infrastructure development for Bioinformatics Daudi Jjingo IDI/( Urbanisation and health A College without walls – ECSACOP’s ) Dorothy Baziwe Virtual Learning Environment’’ - ( ECSACOP) ACE Mali-An overview - Aoua Innovations in Global Health Coulibaly Security MDR TB hearing loss app Mohammed Lamorde (IDI) Charles Batte (Wulira) The Bioinformatics Resources Centers – Ishwar Chandramouliswaran Medicycles: Using micro-financed Rapid Interoperability and Big Data (NIAID) motorcycle taxis and cost-sharing Analytics for Health- to ensure continuity of care in (Zenysis) EuPathDB.org & ClinEpiDB.org - difficult-to-reach areas Free Web Resources for Research A Pap-smear Automated Analysis Tool for Kevin Gibbons (Health Access and Education Jessica- Kissinger Diagnosis and Classification of Cervical Connect) (University of Georgia) Cancer - Wasswa William (MUST) 13:00-14:00 Lunch break Appy Hour: Demonstration of apps

14:00-15:00 Celebrating achievements, learning from challenges Moderator: Mohamed Larmode/ Data Santarino

• Bloodless Malaria App - Brian Gitta (Matibabu) • MedTech: Pitfalls to avoid, WinSenga -Joshua Okello (Andela Uganda) • Call For Life, IVR and patient care - Agnes Bwanika (IDI)

15:00-17:00 Moderator: Rosalind Parkes -Ratanshi Address from Andela CTO - David Blair Presentation from Hackathon teams Prize giving to Hackathon winner – David Blair (Andela) Best abstract and award giving Clarke Group Handover of artwork - Rolands Tibirusya

16:30-17:00 Networking - Arts session - HIV Exhibition and Painting Session

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ANDREW KAMBUGU MIKE TARTAKOVSKY DAVID BLAIR The Executi ve Director of IDI, Andrew Kambugu Michael Tartakovsky is the Chief Informati on David is the Chief Technology Offi cer at Andela, has previously been the Head of IDI’s Research Offi cer and Director of the Offi ce of Cyber responsible for setti ng technical product Program at Makerere University, College Infrastructure and Computati onal Biology strategy and driving executi on on its delivery. of Health Sciences (MakCHS). Kambugu ─ (OCICB) for the Nati onal Insti tute of Allergy In his role, he leads technology product, and an adjunct Assoc. Prof. at the University and Infecti ous Diseases (NIAID), Nati onal engineering. Prior to Andela, David led product of Minnesota, USA, is an honorary Senior Insti tutes of Health (NIH). In these roles he at Sonian and LogMeIn where he drove product Lecturer in the Dept. of Medicine MakCHS. He provides strategic leadership and technical strategy, engineering, and delivery of a portf olio is a medical doctor with a Masters in Internal directi on for informati on and informati on of SaaS applicati ons for SMB IT Professionals. Medicine ─ both from Makerere University. technologies initi ati ves to support and enable The products he managed are used for remote He also has specialist training in infecti ous NIAID biomedical research mission. Since 2003, access, computer management, hosted VPN, diseases from the Universiti es of Utah and Mr Tartakovsky has led his offi ce in delivering data backup, fi le sync & share, cloud app Manitoba; and is a Fellow of the Royal College to NIAID state-of-the-art Scienti fi c Computi ng monitoring, and mobile remote access. of Physicians, UK. Infrastructure, Custom Soft ware Applicati ons, Bioinformati cs tools, and Data Analyti cs.

ELLY KATABIRA ROSALIND P. RATANSHI MARIAM QUIÑONES Elly is the co-founder of The AIDS Support Quiñones currently serves as Head of the Organizati on (TASO), where he has served Rosalind, the director of The Ugandan Science Support Secti on in the Bioinformati cs as Medical Advisor since 1987. He is a reti red Academy is a clinical academic with a research and Computati onal Biosciences Branch, Offi ce professor of internal medicine and served on interest in sustaining HIV and STI care using of Cyber Infrastructure and Computati onal the faculty of medicine at Makerere University. innovati on in Africa. She trained as a Clinical Biology at the Nati onal Insti tute of Allergy and Katabira is the co-chair of the advisory board of Lecturer in Genito-urinary Medicine at St Infecti ous Diseases. For over 12 years, she has The Ugandan Academy and has been working Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College, London collaborated with many researchers providing in the fi eld of HIV as a clinician, an educator and and holds an Honorary Contract at Cambridge them with experti se and soluti ons in genomics a researcher since the 1980s. He has worked University Foundati on Hospital. She has over and NGS data analysis and has contributed to with a number of organizati ons including 13 years’ experience working in Uganda and the development of resources for genomics WHO and UNAIDS. His research interests are completed her PhD from the Liverpool School and microbiome research. Prior to joining in clinical trials, operati onal research and ART of Tropical Medicine in the preventi on of NIH, she conducted doctoral research under implementati on studies and published over 150 cryptococcal disease in HIV positi ve Ugandan the guidance of Dr Matt hew K. Waldor in the papers in peer-reviewed journals and over 250 adults in 2009. areas of microbiology and infecti ous diseases abstracts at internati onal conferences which produced several scienti fi c publicati ons.

ISHWAR ALEX MUGANZI CHANDRAMOULISWARAN Alex Muganzi is the head of the outreach Ishwar is a Bioinformati cs Program Offi cer programme at IDI and he also represents leading the eff orts in NIAID’s Offi ce of Africa on the Internati onal AIDS Data Science & Emerging Technologies. Society (IAS) Governing Council (GC)/ His focus is to coordinate and develop board both as a GC member as well as innovati ve programs supporti ng open representi ng Africa region on the IAS and collaborati ve team science to executi ve Committ ee. He is also a member accelerate research in the allergy and of the Finance Sub Committ ee of the IAS. infecti ous diseases informati cs/data He has also represented the IAS on the ICASA science community. Ishwar is one of the (Internati onal Conference on HIV/AIDS and STIs in authors of the landmark Science publicati on Africa) internati onal conference Steering committ ee for both ICASA on the sequence of the human genome and holds 2011 and ICASA 2013. patents in gene discovery. His career has spanned from basic scienti fi c research in genome sequence analysis to genomic product development and related services.

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KWAME RUGUNDA CISSY KITYO IAN CLARKE Kwame is a technology entrepreneur with an Cissy is a Ugandan physician, epidemiologist, Ian Clarke is a physician, entrepreneur, interest in emerging technologies, parti cular and medical researcher. She is the Executi ve philanthropist, and politi cian in Uganda. He those designed to address the challenges of Director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre, a is the Chairman of the Ugandan Healthcare global development. An Electrical Engineer government-owned medical research insti tuti on Federati on, and a board member of the and Mathemati cian by training, he worked in Uganda, specializing in HIV/AIDS treatment Private Sector Foundati on Uganda. In 1996 he in telecommunicati ons, broadcasti ng and and management. She also seats on the advisory set up Internati onal Medical Centre which has civic technology, and has consulted for board of the Ugandan Academy at IDI. She is since grown to the organizati on Internati onal governments, the United Nati ons and among the pioneers of Anti retroviral Therapy Medical Group, the largest private healthcare several private and non-profi t organizati ons (ART) use in sub-Saharan Africa. She has been organizati on in Uganda. He is the owner and throughout East Africa. Had an early exposure one of the proponents and movers of scaling up Executi ve Chairman of Clarke Group, Ltd. to the 4th industrial revoluti on due to interest treatment in Uganda. She is part of the team that which has interests in educati on, hospitality in technology and innovati on, with a parti cular planned and wrote Uganda’s fi rst strategic plan and agribusiness. He has extensive experience interest in blockchain and its applicati on. for a nati onal ARV policy and program to increase in establishing start-up businesses and growing access to care and ARVs. them to a corporate level.

JOANITA KIGOZI MICHAEL NIYITEGEKA STEVE OLLIS Michael is an Adjunct Lecturer with the ESAMI As Senior Digital Health Advisor, MCSP/JSI co- Joanita Kigozi is the Deputy Head, Outreach Business School and a Board member of, Uganda chair Global Digital Health Network Department Infecti ous Diseases Insti tute. Youth Forum and AIESEC Uganda. He was a Steve serves as Senior Digital Health Advisor She is a physician and Infecti ous Diseases member of the ICT Technical Working Group of for John Snow Inc. and for USAID’s fl agship Specialist with over 10 years’ experience the Presidenti al Investor Round Table and is a Maternal and Child Survival Program. He is implementi ng large scale HIV related Health member of several technology innovati on review currently serving as co-chair of the Global Systems Strengthening Interventi ons in panels both locally and internati onally. He is a Digital Health Network, a 3500+ member Uganda, at senior management level. Rotarian and is passionate about mentoring the convening organizati on, dedicated to improving She provides senior technical assistance, next generati on of technology business leaders. the sharing of best practi ces in digital health to and program management oversight for He has been listed among the thought leaders, ministries donors and implementi ng partners. CDC/PEPFAR funded programs that are infl uenti al people in the ICT Sector. At Clarke He has served as COO developing digital health implemented in nineteen districts across the Internati onal University, School of Business and soluti ons to improve the quality of care provided country with over 300,000 pati ents in care. Applied Technology he is the Director of the by front line health workers. Steve has led the She is also the project Manager for the IDI - Lift 256 Tech Academy that working with young development and implementati on of digital Kampala Region HIV project. emerging soft ware developers to become world health soluti ons in 10 countries. class developers.

BRIAN WOODFALL PAULINE BYAKIKA Woodfall is the senior director at Johnson & Byakika holds a Doctor of Philosophy Johnson and vice president, Global Clinical (PhD) in Clinical Pharmacology obtained Devt, Tibotec, Head of the medical dept. from the Trinity College Dublin, in As a co-founder of Spectrum Health Care Dublin, and her PhD thesis Ltd. in Vancouver, BC, he was instrumental analyses the drug-to-drug interacti ons in the concepti on, funding, implementati on between anti malarials and Anti -retroviral and day-to-day management of an drugs drugs. She has concurrently taught integrated multi -disciplinary clinic dealing at Makerere University College of Health with HIV disease. In 2003, Brian joined the Sciences, which uses Hospital as its pharmaceuti cal industry at Tibotec, a Johnson teaching hospital. She has risen through the ranks, over the years, & Johnson company specializing in the discovery and development of from research associate, assistant lecturer, lecturer, senior lecturer, innovati ve HIV/AIDS drugs and superior anti -infecti ves for diseases of to her current rank of Associate Professor, as of August 2018. She high unmet medical need. has also worked at the University’s Infecti ous Diseases Insti tute.

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DARRELL E. HURT DANIEL VELTRI ANTHONY NDYANABO Darrell E. Hurt leads the Bioinformati cs and Veltri is a Computati onal Genomics Specialist Anthony Ndyanabo is a graduate of stati sti cal Computati onal Biosciences Branch as the Chief with Medical Science & Computi ng and computi ng, with a Masters in computer science of a group of about 50 researchers and soft ware a contractor with the Bioinformati cs and from makerere university. He has immense developers in the Offi ce of Cyber Infrastructure Computati onal Biosciences Branch in the Offi ce data management experience having worked and Computati onal Biology at the Nati onal of Cyber Infrastructure and Computati onal with the Rakai health Sciences program for Insti tute of Allergy and Infecti ous Diseases. Biology at the Nati onal Insti tute of Allergy and over 18 years. He has co-authored publicati ons His scienti fi c experti se includes molecular Infecti ous Diseases. His main research interest in HIV reasearch. He is currrently collaborati ng simulati ons and scienti fi c 3D modeling. His is on using machine learning to improve our with the NIH OCIB on the constructi on of the graduate and postdoctoral work at Cornell understanding of genomic and proteomic data. datawarehouse project for RHSP to bett er University and elsewhere at NIH focused on His graduate work at George Mason University manage and visualize data for analysis and X-ray crystallography. His doctoral work was focused on the computati onal predicti on of publicati on. recognized with the Pauling Award from the anti microbial pepti des and he has recently American Crystallographic Associati on and applied deep learning to build state-of-the-art he is the author of several scienti fi c research classifi cati on models. arti cles.

AOUA COULIBALY MEGHAN MCCARTHY PHILLIP CRUZ Meghan McCarthy, M.S., Ph.D., is Program Lead Phillip Cruz is a Computati onal Structural Aoua Coulibaly is the Bioinformati cs Consultant for 3D Printi ng and Biovisualizati on in the Offi ce Biologist in the Bioinformati cs and in support of the African Center of Excellence of Cyber Infrastructure and Computati onal Computati onal Biosciences Branch within (ACE) in Bioinformati cs program and the Biology at the Nati onal Insti tute of Allergy the Offi ce of Cyber Infrastructure and Internati onal Center for Excellence in Research and Infecti ous Diseases (NIAID). Her work Computati onal Biology at the Nati onal in Mali. She is currently a Ph.D. student in encompasses a range of projects related to Insti tute of Allergy and Infecti ous Diseases. bioinformati cs at the University of Cape Town development and adopti on of 3D printi ng and His graduate and postdoctoral work at the under the Developing Excellence in Leadership VR/AR for bioscienti fi c and medical applicati ons, University of California, Irvine and University and Geneti c Training for Malaria Eliminati on including enhanced 3D visualizati on of molecular of California, Berkeley, respecti vely, applied in Sub-Saharan Africa (DELGEME) fellowship. models, medical imaging data, and large-scale, the techniques of NMR spectroscopy to the The aim of Ms. Coulibaly’s project is to develop multi dimensional datasets. In 2018, she led three dimensional structural determinati on of new methods to discriminate the P. falciparum the launch of NIAID’s Biovisualizati on Lab, a biological molecules. His current interest is in populati ons from West Africa. central resource providing VR/AR hardware using computati onal methods, including virtual and soft ware, technical support, and scienti fic and augmented reality, to study biomolecular consultati on to NIAID researchers and staff . structures and functi ons.

TIBIRUSYA ROLANDS STEVE GARROU Tibirusya Rolands is an arti st with diverse Steve Garrou, Enduvo, Chairman abiliti es and infl uences. A painter, Author and CEO - 25-year career leading of portraits and landscapes, an Innovator, and growing global technology Philanthropist and an Arti vist– visual businesses, investi ng in and advising advocate for change. A Graduate of young companies and volunteering BIFA(Bachelor of Industrials and fi ne arts with children-centered organizati ons. CEDAT Makerere university, currently Current and former executi ve Global ambassador of the Great African positi ons include: Advisory Board Art Banner. Through his painti ng visually Xaptum, Advisory Board Highland Ridge advocates for social change. Tibirusya hopes to Capital (sold to Chicago Corporati on), transform mindsets, advocate for marginalized Industry Partner Hyde Park Angels, Former groups and bring about behavioral change in society. EVP Westcon-Comstor, and Former VP In recent past received the presti gious Young Achiever Award in the CenturyLink. category of Art, Fashion and Design with an outstanding impact of interacti ve art reach project to schools and communiti es across Africa.

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DATA SANTORINI BRIAN TURYABAGYE SOLOMON KING Data is the Uganda Country Manager for As one of Africa’s young engineers, Brian Passionate about design, business and CAMTech Uganda. He is also aPediatrician and together with the MamaOpe Medicals team technology, his ambiti ons revolve around Lecturer in the Department of at invented a bio-medical smart jacket that helps fostering ideas and building products that Mbarara University of Science and Technology doctors identi fy Pneumonia at a faster rate enhance our interacti on with both the physical (MUST). Dr. Data has championed the creati on with increased accuracy so as to considerably and digital worlds through computer user of an Innovati ons Ecosystem that includes the reduce the under fi ve child mortality rate, interfaces and electronic hardware. Founder monthly MUST Innovati on Café, an Innovati on and as well increase the producti vity of health of Fundi Bots, a roboti cs non-profi t that uses offi ce, a Co-Creati on laboratory and a students’ workers across Africa. His inventi on MamaOpe, roboti cs training inside and outside African innovati on internship program that target recently emerged the winner of the Pitch@ schools to create and inspire a new generati on medical technology development for Low and Palace Africa 2017, was shortlisted by the Royal of students and innovators. A 2014 Echoing Middle Income Countries. He is collaborati vely Academy of Engineering under the Africa Prize Green Fellow and a 2014 Ashoka Fellow. “Our involved in the development of the Augmented for Engineering Innovati on, was profi led by BBC work with Fundi Bots has received recogniti on Infant Resuscitator an add-on device to existi ng among the fi ve African inventi ons to watch out by Google through a Google RISE grant in 2012, bag-valve-masks that monitors and provides for in 2017, and is considered by CNN as one of the BBC, Voice of America and Wired Magazine instant feedback on resuscitati on quality. the 12 African innovati ons that could change UK,” he says. the world.

CHARLES BATTE BRIAN GITTA PHILIPPA N. MAKOBORE Brian Gitt a invented Mati babu, a medically Philippa Makobore is the Department Head Charles Batt e is a global award-winning non-invasive device that detects malaria in of the Instrumentati on Division at the social innovator in the Health, Environment two minutes. As CEO of thinkIT Limited, Brian Uganda Industrial Research Insti tute (UIRI). and social-economic empowerment space. aims to use this and other science-based She received a BSc in Electrical Engineering His work over the past 10 years has focused innovati ons to help people adapt to survive from the University of Alberta, Canada and a on improving the livelihoods of the last climate change — which has been found Professional Certi fi cate in Embedded Systems mile in Ugandan communiti es using a to be a major driver of malaria in Africa by Engineering from the University of California, human centered design approach to foster recent, peer-reviewed research from the Irvine in 2016. She is currently pursuing a development of context relevant soluti ons Massachusett s Insti tute of Technology (MIT). MSc in Engineering with a concentrati on in to the most pressing social problems. He The next step for spreading the Mati babu Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, leads the development of the Wulira App - a technology, which has the capacity to save USA which she will complete in 2019. Her mobile phone based hearing loss assessment hundreds of thousands or even millions of core experti se is the design of medical devices applicati on with a going of improving access lives, is to get it approval for use in various that are appropriate and aff ordable for low to hearing health care for all. countries. resource setti ngs.

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