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Generating evidence and developing deployable AI technologies for global health and humanitarian response

We build AI systems that work where they are needed most by prioritizing openness, real-world validation, and local relevance.
 

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This means collaborating with users at every stage: from defining use cases to integrating tools into clinical workflows, while ensuring models are trained on high-quality, contextually grounded data. 

We emphasize open-source development, ethical governance, and capacity building, designing systems that can operate under real constraints such as limited data, connectivity, and infrastructure, and that can be sustained and owned locally.  

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Where we work

Where we work

Clinical Research

Clinical Research

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MOOVE is a global, expert-led platform that enables clinicians and humanitarian professionals to rigorously evaluate AI systems against real-world local healthcare contexts, generating trusted evidence on safety, quality, and contextual relevance. By combining community governance, data sovereignty, and continuous validation, MOOVE helps adapt AI models to the populations and settings they are intended to serve, particularly in underserved and low-resource environments.

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An interdisciplinary, Pan-African-European Union research initiative which aims to improve the management of childhood pneumonia by pioneering the use of point-of-care lung ultrasound in everyday clinical practice and policy.

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An EDCTP3-funded research project bringing together partners across Africa and Europe to improve tuberculosis diagnosis through AI-driven computer-assisted lung ultrasound in Benin, Mali and South Africa.

Clinical Research

AI Models

AI Models

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MeditronFO (Fully Open) is the first fully open medical specialist LLM, and outperforms Medgemma on open-ended clinical evaluations.

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MoBayes constructs an explicit clinical knowledge base, then iteratively gathers evidence through LLM-parsed patient dialogue and updates beliefs with Bayesian inference — outperforming much larger standalone LLM doctors at a fraction of the cost. The LLM is confined to parsing and verbalization, while a deterministic Bayesian module handles posterior tracking, question selection, and calibrated abstention.

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MultiModN explores modular neural architectures for multimodal, multi-task learning, with a focus on interpretable fusion across heterogeneous data sources.
The project introduces a flexible approach to combining modalities sequentially, supporting robust prediction even when some information is missing not at random.

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DeepBreath studies how deep learning can detect pediatric respiratory pathology from lung auscultation audio, aiming to make respiratory assessment more objective and scalable. The project highlights interpretable audio-based signatures of disease, with potential relevance for standardized evaluation in remote and resource-limited care settings.

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Asthmoscope investigates whether deep learning on digital lung auscultation can support pediatric asthma homecare monitoring, using spirometry-labelled recordings as an objective clinical reference.
The project explores both the promise and current limitations of audio-based asthma assessment, highlighting challenges such as early exacerbation detection and variability across digital stethoscopes.

AI Models

AI Models

AI Models

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Massive Multimodal Open RAG & Extraction (mmore) pipeline to personalize LLMs with a diverse corpus of multimodal inputs.

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MOOVE is a global, expert-led platform that enables clinicians and humanitarian professionals to rigorously evaluate AI systems against real-world local healthcare contexts, generating trusted evidence on safety, quality, and contextual relevance. By combining community governance, data sovereignty, and continuous validation, MOOVE helps adapt AI models to the populations and settings they are intended to serve, particularly in underserved and low-resource environments.

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Talk2yourdata enables natural language querying of DHIS2 health data.

AI Software

AI Applications

AI Applications

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MOOVE is a global, expert-led platform that enables clinicians and humanitarian professionals to rigorously evaluate AI systems against real-world local healthcare contexts, generating trusted evidence on safety, quality, and contextual relevance. By combining community governance, data sovereignty, and continuous validation, MOOVE helps adapt AI models to the populations and settings they are intended to serve, particularly in underserved and low-resource environments.

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A mobile application for the automated assessment of  antibiograms (with MSF).

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A multi-parameter smart stethoscope.

AI Applications

Distributed Learning

Distributed Learning

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DIStributed COllaborative Learning, Train AI Models Together. Keep Data Private.
Build and train AI models without sharing any data. Machine Learning directly in your browser.

GitHub

Distributed Learning

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

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PrAlmaan MOOVE

The Massive Open Online Validation and Evaluation (MOOVE) is a multi-country platform for evaluating generative AI-enabled clinical decision support tools, involved in large-scale randomized controlled trials in Africa. As of 2026, MOOVE has also launched in India in the PrAImaan project. PrAimaan will establish a centralized yet federated authority under ICMR to govern health AI evaluation; define national standards; map India’s landscape of models, datasets, and compute environments; and build a Technical Facilitation Unit to adapt and operate MOOVE for Indian needs.

Collaborators: ICMR, Koita Centre for Digital Health at Ashoka

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

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ChitChat

ChitChat develops frameworks and methods to ensure AI aligns with the International Committee of the Red Cross ethical values, including evaluation tools for LMLMs and a human-feedback web platform for continuous alignment.

 

The project is funded through the Engineering for Humanitarian Action initiative, a partnership between the ICRC, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and ETH Zurich.

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EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Harvard, Ariadne Labs, Boston, USA

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