How institutions, policies, and data flows shape population health. This includes nearly five years advising Rwanda’s Ministry of Health and co-leading the Rwanda Health Analytics Platform across 500+ facilities—and a social-network analysis of AI diagnostic trial networks in sub-Saharan Africa that found complete structural fragmentation, with no institutional bridges between trials.
The human, institutional, and technical infrastructure that makes rigorous trials possible where they have historically been scarce. As Executive Director of the TOGETHER Adaptive Platform Trial, I oversaw more than 12 candidate therapies across more than 12,000 patients at 22 sites in six countries. Purpose Africa continues that capacity work with ministries of health.
The methods: network analysis, bibliometrics, and computational social science, applied both to health problems and to the research enterprise itself. This includes Counterforce AI social-listening tools and the MedContext multimodal misinformation detector (91.4% on Med-MMHL)—and the toolkit for studying how knowledge actually flows.
The same questions run through all three: where knowledge flows (or fails to), who holds power in the partnership architecture, and whether low- and middle-income countries are partners—not just research sites—in the discoveries that affect their health. I bring that framing into the MSHI program at Northeastern, training informatics leaders who can study and improve the systems that produce evidence, not only use the data.
Mapping research partnerships, funding flows, and institutional networks that shape AI in African health systems—including the trial-network analysis in The Lancet Regional Health — Africa (2026).
Using network analysis and bibliometrics to study how global health research ecosystems are structured, where knowledge flows, and how capacity building works in practice.
Co-investigator on fluvoxamine and metformin for fatigue (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2026), extending the platform that evaluated repurposed COVID-19 therapies.
HERO Lab / Counterforce AI work on information disorder in health emergencies, including social listening and MedContext multimodal detection.
Also: publication index · citation network · Counterforce AI (advisor).
A short record of the systems this program grew out of—not a second research page.
| Years | Role | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| 2020–2023 | Executive Director | TOGETHER Adaptive Platform Trial |
| 2022–2025 | Senior Researcher | McMaster University, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact |
| 2023–2025 | Co-founder | Purpose Africa — clinical research capacity with ministries of health |
| 2015–2020 | Advisor | Rwanda Ministry of Health / Rwanda Biomedical Centre |
| 2018–2024 | Adjunct Assistant Professor | University of Rwanda, School of Public Health |
| 2020–2021 | Director of Global Health Strategy | Cytel Canada Health |
I collaborate with global researchers, students, ministries, and industry partners working to strengthen health informatics, evidence generation, and clinical and public health research capacity, particularly in contexts where resources, infrastructure and trust are unevenly distributed.