Over the past two days, we had the pleasure of hosting our **SANAD symposium on AI in Medicine and Food Sciences** within the framework of the **DAAD Ta’ziz project**, welcoming a delegation from **Tunisia**, **Lebanon**, and **Iraq**.
I had the pleasure to give a keynote on Leveraging Collective Intelligence for Inclusive Global Healthcare at the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS) in Cairo, Egypt. I had the chance to meet and discuss further collaboration with the dean at the Ain Shams University Prof. Dr. Rasha Ismail, Prof. Dr. Hassan Abdalla from East London University, and Prof. Robert Sloan, from University of Illinois Chicago, and Prof. Huan Liu from Arizona Satet University.
I recently had the privilege of joining the Steering Committee of the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA) in Brussels for a fact-finding mission from 17–20 November 2025.
We have just wrapped up an inspiring week of the BILD Summer School 2025 in Tunis, and I could not be more grateful for the people and partnerships that made this possible. A heartfelt thank you to the University of Tunis El Manar, represented by the Rector Prof. Moez CHAFRA and his vice rectors, for their warm welcome and strong support of this initiative. Your presence was an honor and an encouragement to all of us
Honored to join an inspiring panel at the WHO EMRO AI Workshop on **Applied Case Studies of AI in Health,** alongside brilliant colleagues working at the intersection of AI, public health, and policy. I shared insights from our work at the University of Bonn on building trustworthy and equitable AI models for medical imaging—especially in global health settings where data diversity and clinical applicability are key challenges. Grateful for the engaging discussion on how we can ensure that AI innovations serve not just high-resource settings, but also strengthen health systems worldwide
Honored to join an inspiring panel at the WHO EMRO AI Workshop on **Applied Case Studies of AI in Health,** alongside brilliant colleagues working at the intersection of AI, public health, and policy. I shared insights from our work at the University of Bonn on building trustworthy and equitable AI models for medical imaging—especially in global health settings where data diversity and clinical applicability are key challenges. Grateful for the engaging discussion on how we can ensure that AI innovations serve not just high-resource settings, but also strengthen health systems worldwide
I had the pleasure to give a talk on **Leveraging Collective Intelligence for Inclusive Global Healthcare** at the [Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DASCI)](https://dasci.es/en/)! Thanks to Prof. [Pablo Mesejo Santiago](https://dasci.es/investigador/pablo-mesejo-santiago/) for the invitation and great hospitality!
As an Invited Lecturer for the Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence module at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin’s Institute of International Health, I delivered a focused lecture on deep learning algorithms and their medical applications—highlighting federated learning—and had the privilege of engaging with a diverse, global cohort of brilliant medical professionals from Germany, other European countries and the U.S., Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Asia, and South America.
I had the pleasure to give an invited talk at the BioMedIA Lab in MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)! I had the pleasure to meet [Dr Mohammad Yaqub](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-yaqub), his group members and a few familiar faces in our community. Thanks, Mohammad!
Last week, I had the privilege of meeting Prof. Dr. Moez CHAFRA, President of the University of Tunis El Manar, and his esteemed colleagues. We had a productive discussion exploring potential collaborations, including the exciting possibility of organizing a Summer School on AI in Medicine in Tunisia, among other initiatives.