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Africa can lead the future of AI-driven health innovation, says Professor John Amuasi

By Kwasi Debrah

Africa contains more than 70 percent of the world's genetic diversity. Any AI system built to transform global healthcare that ignores that fact is, by definition, built on a flawed dataset. It will underperform. It may cause harm. This is the scientific reality Professor John Amuasi of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi and the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine laid before investors, researchers, and policymakers at DLD Munich, Europe's leading innovation...