Bridging the AI in Medical Imaging Divide in Africa

We are delighted to invite you to our next DS4Society Webinar, featuring Dr Udunna Anazodo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, Canada.

🗓 Date: Friday, 24 October 2025
⏰ Time: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM SAST
📍 Venue: Online (link will be provided upon registration)
📩 RSVP by: Wednesday, 22 October 2025
👉 RSVP here: https://forms.gle/G6m3zsLUqxWKQPQW6

About the Talk

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has immense potential to transform diagnostic imaging, particularly in resource-constrained healthcare systems. However, its full promise is limited by persistent structural challenges that hinder adoption across African contexts.

In this talk, Dr Anazodo will discuss the barriers that restrict the use of AI in medical imaging in Africa and outline approaches to drive innovation, local adaptation, and sustainable application of AI in addressing healthcare needs.

This session is a valuable opportunity for clinicians, researchers, and policymakers to explore how Africa can build the foundations for equitable AI in healthcare.

About the Speaker

Dr Udunna Anazodo completed her PhD in Medical Biophysics at Western University and was a MITACS Accelerate Fellow at the Lawson Health Research Institute. She leads the Multimodal Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease (MiND) Lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute, where her team develops PET and MRI techniques for quantitative neuroimaging.

She is the Founder and Chair of the Consortium for Advancement of MRI Education and Research in Africa (CAMERA) — a global network working to establish sustainable access to high-value MRI in Africa.
She also serves as Scientific Director of the Medical Artificial Intelligence (MAI) Lab in Lagos, Africa’s first AI lab dedicated to training, developing, and implementing AI applications in medical imaging, and is the Programme Director of SPARK Academy — a deep learning and medical imaging train-the-trainer programme in Africa.

Her work reflects a commitment to expanding diagnostic access and building research capacity for the African continent.

📩 Enquiries: dsfsi.info@up.ac.za

Postgraduate students, supervisors, researchers, and anyone interested in the future of AI and medical imaging in Africa are warmly invited to attend.

This webinar is a collaboration between DSFSI, AfriDSAI, Sisonke Biotik, University of Pretoria Faculty of Health Sciences, and AI4D.