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Session 7 of the 2026 Monthly Speaker Series

Practical AI for African Healthcare: From Hype to Real-World Impact.

A grounded look at what today’s AI tools actually do in clinical care, how they can ease workload for African providers, and what to ask before adopting any of them.

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Franck Tchafa, PhD Applied AI/ML Engineer · Texas, USA

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Date

Wed 29 Jul

2026

Time

12:00 PM CT

5:00 PM Accra · 6:00 PM Lagos · 8:00 PM Nairobi

Format

60 min

Talk + live Q&A on Zoom

Cost

Free

Members get the recording in My AHA

Franck Tchafa, PhD

Applied AI/ML Engineer

AI, but grounded in reality.

Dr. Franck Tchafa is an applied AI/ML engineer specializing in clinically grounded, high-impact machine learning solutions — a rare combination of clinical understanding and machine learning engineering.

He joins AHA as the Featured Speaker for the July 2026 Monthly Speaker Series to walk clinicians, informaticians, and health system leaders through what today’s AI tools can and cannot do in African clinical settings, and the practical questions worth asking before adopting any of them.

Applied AI/ML engineering

Clinically grounded machine learning

AHA Ghana 2026

Speaker, AI in Healthcare

Who should attend

Physicians & specialists

Doctors across every specialty, including hematology and primary care

Nurses, midwives & allied health

Frontline care teams in hospitals and communities

Pharmacists & lab scientists

Medicines, diagnostics, and laboratory professionals

Students & researchers

Medical trainees, academics, and public health researchers

Not in healthcare? Anyone interested in AI and the future of healthcare is welcome to join. Registration is free and open to all.

Four practical threads.

Cutting through the hype so clinicians and health system leaders can make confident decisions about AI in African healthcare.

How AI can ease workload for African providers

Where AI tools actually reduce clinical and administrative burden today, and where they do not — and how to spot when a tool is really solving a problem versus adding a new one.

When and how these breakthroughs can be implemented

The current capabilities and hard limits of clinical AI: where models are reliable enough for routine use, and where they should stay in a research role.

Key considerations for safe use in Africa

Data, connectivity, patient population, regulation, and workforce readiness — what has to be true before an AI tool built elsewhere can be trusted in an African clinical setting.

Clinician-friendly questions to evaluate any AI tool

A simple, transferable checklist that separates real clinical value from a good pitch deck, in language you can use with non-technical colleagues.

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Wednesday 29 July · 12:00 PM CT · Zoom · 60 minutes

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