Diagnostic Futures

Reimagining Diagnostics for Post-Digital Health Futures

A pan-African research and innovation initiative envisioning a world where diagnostic intelligence is locally created, indigenously grounded, and sovereign by design.

Our Mission

We reject the historical trajectory where African health data is extracted, modelled abroad, and re-imported as opaque systems. Instead, we cultivate a diagnostic ecosystem built on epistemic repair, data sovereignty, culturally-embedded AI reasoning models, and computational infrastructures that honour indigenous knowledge systems.

Local Healthcare Innovation

Culturally Grounded AI

Community-Based Triage

Seven Diagnostic Systems

(1)

DermAI-Africa

Melanin-aware, climate-aware, and culturally contextual skin diagnostics integrating indigenous symptom taxonomies.

(2)

MaternalSense-Q

Maternal health screening aligned with local midwifery knowledge and contextual care realities.

(3)

MindScape Diagnostics

Mental health reasoning system respecting African semiotics of distress, healing, and emotional communication.

(4)

OralVision Diagnostics

Dental pathology detection with phytomedicine knowledge graphs for rural contexts.

(5)

VectorSense

AI for malaria and vector-borne diseases built for ecological and cultural realities.

(6)

NeuroScreen-Africa

Neurocognitive diagnostic tools grounded in African linguistic and cultural cognitive frameworks.

(7)

Community Diagnostics Hub

Distributed diagnostic platform using federated learning and indigenous triage protocols.

Research Pillars

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Graph-Based Reasoning

Indigenous symptom graphs & clinical explainability

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Quantum Optimization

Uncertainty-aware triage systems

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Postcolonial Epistemology

Reclaiming community health knowledges

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Multimodal LLMs

Visual, audio, text & sensor fusion

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Fairness & Safety

Culturally grounded explainability

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Sensing Innovations

Acoustic biomarkers & IoT signals