On May 3, 2024, Prof. Julius Oyugi, Director Research University of Nairobi Institute for Tropical and Infectious Diseases (UNITID) and Principal Investigator ENGAGE (Enabling Girls in AI and Growing Expertise) led a team from University of Nairobi and UCSF for an official visit to PWANI University located in the coastal region of Kenya. This visit was the last visit to 6 regional universities in Kenya who will be helping UoN implement the ENGAGE Project. Other universities previously visited include; Meru University, Dedan Kimathi University, Kabarak University, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University and South Eastern Kenya University.
The purpose of this visit was to establish the suitability of PWANI University to help with implementing a capacity-building project funded by TAKEDA known as ENGAGE (Enabling Girls in AI and Growing Expertise).
The project is led by University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Department of Mathematics at the UoN in collaboration with University of California San Francisco.
The overall goal of ENGAGE project is to train and mentor over 800 girls and women from less privilege backgrounds from high schools, TVET and Universities on data science with the view to using the knowledge in data science to solve local public health problems.
The team from UoN was excited to be received by the Vice Chancellor PWANI University, Prof. James H. P. Kahindi and his team. They had a fruitful discussion and had a chance to visit several facilities within the campus. They were very impressed with the state of art facilities available within campus that girls in the ENGAGE project will have access to during the training. They were excited with the ENGAGE project as it promises to change the lives of girls and women from less privileged backgrounds who will become change makers in providing public health solutions.
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