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Haleema Ahmed meeting with Justin Trudeau

September 27, 2022Newsssherif

Shout out to Haleema Ahmed, a Kong Lab member who met with the Prime minister @JustinTrudeau, to discuss the problems that Youths are facing in our community @YorkUScience @YUResearch @YorkUniversity @YorkUnews @DIGHR_YorkU @NSERC_CRSNG

Leveraging AI and Big Data for clinical public health in South Africa

September 15, 2022Newsssherif

Meeting with the deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation (South Africa) , The Hon. @ButiManamela, at YorkU, to discuss the initiative in South Africa (supported by @IDRC_CRDI,@Sida): Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for clinical public health in SA.@YorkUScience

Kong research group member spotlight 3!

June 22, 2022Newsssherif

New lab member spotlight 3! We are pleased to announce that @YorkUScience through the YSSA program is supporting @haleema3_ahmed to identify the factors that influenced the timing NPI and community support measures at Canadian Universities in response to COVID-19 @NSERC_CRSNG

Kong research group member spotlight!

May 13, 2022Newsjdkong

We are pleased to announce that NSERC will be supporting our very own Mahak Kaur this summer to continue her work with us on COVID-19 in Long-term care homes across Ontario. Stay tuned for updates on her work! '

Policy Brief on how to harness big data and artificial intelligence

March 23, 2022Newsssherif

UNESCO recently published our Policy Brief on how to harness big data and artificial intelligence to help government and local communities manage and contain diseases outbreaks. This is based on our @Sida @IDRC_CRDI project in Africa. Detail is available in this link :https://bit.ly/3pY5aiW

Improving Black futures: The aim of a new program

March 21, 2022Newsssherif

Inspiring diversity in STEM!!! So bent on continuing to lift others and excited to do. Please read my recent interview on Yorkfile! Improving Black futures aim of new program

How does AI help fight COVID19 in Africa?

July 26, 2021Newsjdkong

ACADIC Director, Professor Jude Kong talks with German DW News about how AI-based algorithms are helping to predict future cases in South Africa through ACADIC collaboration. Please click here for the interview

Media Coverage of our article on misinformation on social media linked to higher spread of COVID-19 in ACADIC new study

July 26, 2021News, Uncategorizedjdkong

Researchers from Kong's Research Group and ACADIC say they were surprised to find social media use was related to a higher spread rate of COVID-19 early on. “This highlights the need to consider the dynamic role that social media plays in epidemics", says the Director of ACADIC and Kong's Research Group , Jude Kong. Media Coverage […]