UCLA senior delivers digital health monitoring to fight disease in Cameroon

As Vikash Singh looks forward to 2018 he is also looking forward to witnessing his education in action. Specifically how his background in medical research, artificial intelligence and machine learning — along with a $5,000UCLA Global Citizens Fellowship award and some innovative thinking — may potentially help save lives in Cameroon.Doctors at the HSPC Polyclinic in Kumba, a city located in the country ’s southwest region, will soon begin uploading patient information to a software application designed by Singh and a team of student programmers through Project DataReach, a company Singh launched in 2015 with funding provided by the Stamps Foundation Scholarship program. The student programmers, who attend various universities, include Singh’s roommate Matthew Khanzadeh, a fourth-year computer science major who served as a lead engineer on the Kumba project.The application ’s reporting and data visualization capabilities will help health care professionals at the clinic gain a more complete picture of the health of their community as it pertains to non-communicable diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, asthma and hypertension. This, in turn, can help them identify disease patterns, mitigate potential outbreaks, develop strategies for education, prevention and determining who may be at risk for these health problems.“This partnership represents the first clinician-integrated, machine learning pipeline in the history of Cameroon, and even one of the ...
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