New publication! Delighted to share our latest paper: “Toward an Integrated Epistemology of Futures Thinking.” Synthesizing 44 contributions, we propose a 14-domain taxonomy to advance the comparison and integration of foresight methodologies. tinyurl.com/3uv9ks4c

Excited to share our new study, published in One Health! We mapped highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) hotspots across Canada and identified key environmental drivers using spatial analysis and machine learning. 📄 tinyurl.com/c39kf4em

Honoured to receive the University of Alberta Alumni Horizon Award! 🎉 Grateful to God, my family, mentors, colleagues, students, and partners for this journey advancing AI, mathematical modelling, One Health, and public health. Proud U of A alumnus! 💚💛 #UAlberta

Yesterday, I received the 2026 African Scholars Global Impact Award from the University of Toronto African Alumni Association. Deeply grateful for this recognition and for everyone who has supported the journey. I remain committed to research, innovation, and impact across Africa and beyond. 🙏🏾

Great to connect with IDRC President President Julie Delahanty, wellcometrust CEO Dr. Røttingen, colleagues at the dinner following the Global Health Roundtable. Grateful to Prof. Hoffman & the Global Strategy Lab for bringing us together for meaningful conversations on global health.

Friday was Alberto’s last day at @aimmlab.bsky.social . Thk U Alberto, for your hard work, dedication, and incredible team spirit. You will be missed! Wishing you all the best in your next chapter.We look forward to continuing our collaboration.Thank you to @mitacscanada.bsky.social for the support

Great UNGA Science Summit One Health Plenary last week! I participated in the Science Summit One Health Plenary on the sidelines of the 81st UN General Assembly in New York, discussing how data, AI, environmental intelligence & community-based approaches can advance One Health.

🌍 I’m pleased to join the Science Summit One Health Plenary during #UNGA81 in NYC on Sept. 22. I’ll discuss how AI, data, environmental intelligence & community-driven approaches can move One Health from reactive crisis response toward earlier warning, prevention & resilience.

Please join me in welcoming Ms. Mana Karmoude, our Mitacs Globalink researcher from Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, joining @aimmlab.bsky.social Welcome to the team, Manal — excited for what we'll build together! 🙏

Great session today at #UNGA81! 🌍 Join us tomorrow for AI-Powered One Health Early Warning Systems: Strengthening Community-Level Resilience. 📅 Sept 15 | ⏰ 8:00–9:45 AM Register: event.sciencesummitnyc.org/list-of-sess...

IHEP member @dzevela.bsky.social explains why human expertise must remain at the centre of AI-powered tools developed to support public health decision-making. The project was a collaboration between @uoftdlsph.bsky.social and Toronto Public Health. 🎥 Watch: bit.ly/4wv4zVv

Join us tomorrow for our UNGA81 Science Summit session: AI at the Climate-Health Nexus: Transforming Health Systems in the Global South Exploring responsible, community-driven AI for climate resilience, health systems & global health equity. 👉 Link: tinyurl.com/yu9pkk4z

🌍 Latest preprint! Congratulations to my PhD student, M. Josee Uwanyirigira, on leading this important systematic review of how climate variability shapes malaria transmission across the Global South. Link: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1...

📢 Latest publication! We introduce the Open Syndrome Definition—an open, machine-readable standard for public health case & syndrome definitions, enabling interoperability, reproducible research, and AI-driven analysis. Link: www.jmir.org/2026/1/e86249/

📢 Latest publication! We examine Reddit discussions during the 2022 #Mpox outbreak, analyzing sentiment, topics & engagement across 1,169 posts and 6,571 comments. The findings show how emotionally charged narratives can reshape public health conversations. Link: tinyurl.com/4a66yra7

📚 preprint: Mathematical Representation of Adaptive Human Behavior in Mechanistic Epidemic Models. We reviewed 11,301 records, synthesizing 376 studies—highlighting the need to move toward behaviorally responsive, (mis)information-aware epidemic models. tinyurl.com/5ujyf4jb

📢 Latest publication! “Whose Federation? Federation Opacity Through a Global Health Lens” Who gets to shape AI when data, computing power, and governance are unequal? We explore how Federated Learning can reproduce—and obscure—global health inequities. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Sherif Eneye Shuaib (@Ses_4Short ) on successfully defending his PhD in Applied Mathematics! His work brings together mathematical and AI modelling to understand climate change, fisheries, and ecological dynamics. So proud of you, Dr. Sherif! 👏🏾🎓

🎓🙏🏾 Honoured to receive the 2026 University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award. Grateful to God, my family, mentors, colleagues, students, and collaborators who made this journey possible. ❤️ I dedicate this honour to my son, Joseph Cyrus Kong. The journey continues. 🙏🏾

Honoured to join fellow Black Canada Research Chairs at the #BlackBrilliance in Canadian Research Symposium. Inspired by the conversations, connections, and opportunities to build stronger Black research ecosystems in Canada!

It was great spending time with these amazing friends at the First Symposium on Crowd Management and Safety in Mass Gatherings! The symposium was organized by @aimmlab.bsky.social; ADERSIM, and RAI Lab, KNUST.

👏 Huge congrats to DLSPH’s Dr. Jude Kong for being recognized with an Alumni Horizon Award from @ualberta.bsky.social for his outstanding professional achievements. Read the announcement: www.ualberta.ca/en/alumni/ce...

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IHEP member @dzevela.bsky.social explains why human expertise must remain at the centre of AI-powered tools developed to support public health decision-making. The project was a collaboration between @uoftdlsph.bsky.social and Toronto Public Health. 🎥 Watch: bit.ly/4wv4zVv

Looking forward to presenting at the Symposium on Crowd Management and Safety in Mass Gatherings! I'll be sharing our work on: "An Agentic-AI Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Public Health Surveillance at Mass Gatherings: A FIFA World Cup Case Study"

Beyond AI Pilots: Building sustainable,Global South-led networks for pandemic preparedness & response. AI4PEP challenges fragmented pilots and North-to-South models, advancing locally owned, community-driven, sustainable AI ecosystems. Link:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7227818

📄 Latest preprint! From COVID-19 → Mpox → Ebola: building reusable, African-led AI infrastructure for epidemic response and toward continental zoonotic disease intelligence. Grateful to @IDRC_CRDI for the support! Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... A great read for the weekend

Proud of our 2026 Fields FUSRP team! 🎓🌍 Kevin, Sara, Antong & Maximiliano did an amazing job presenting their PINNs work on epidemic modelling. Loved their collaboration! 👏 Safe travels home—we’ll miss you! Grateful to the Fields Institute for this UofT-York Collab

Great hosting Prof. Vukosi Marivate (Director, African Institute for Data Science and AI, University of Pretoria) at our AI and Mathematical Modelling Lab today. Exciting steps toward a UofT–AIDSAI collaboration on AI and Global Health Security. Thanks for the visit, Prof! 🙌

Day 4 at the AI for Good Summit! Today was a special one — our AI for Global Majority session, where I had the privilege of speaking on Inclusive AI Governance and Capacity Building for Public Health.

Day 3 of the AI for Good Global Summit! Another inspiring day filled with meaningful conversations, reconnecting with friends and colleagues from around the world, and exploring exciting new collaborations with many new connections.