Place Alert Labs: Transforming Health Through Geospatial Innovation
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Place Alert Labs (PALs) is a research laboratory at Midlands State University dedicated to advancing geospatial health research across Africa. We are committed to transforming lives through innovative scientific research that addresses the continent's most pressing health challenges.
Our vision is to see transformed lives on the African continent through science. We focus on geospatial health research, maternal and child health, environmental health, and capacity building for African researchers.
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Early Career Researchers Spotlight at the 6th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
Place Alert Labs celebrated Anotida Marrian Chapunza's work on the ETIQUET project, using semi-supervised learning to improve environmental exposure prediction in data-scarce settings.
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Prestige Tatenda Makanga and Anotida Marrian Chapunza represented the lab in discussions on fair, context-aware artificial intelligence for African healthcare.
Read More on LinkedIn →Environmental Epidemiology Short Course Completed in Harare
The three-day course strengthened practical skills in causal questions, distributed lag non-linear models, cohort designs, and combined heat and air-pollution exposure analysis.
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