APHRC Campus Building in Nairobi

African Population and Health Research Center to Lead Africa Workstream in New $60M Global AI Health Initiative

Africa’s push to harness artificial intelligence in healthcare is gaining new momentum after the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) joined a US$60 million global initiative aimed at closing the evidence gap around AI-driven health innovations. Rather than focusing on developing new tools, the Evidence for AI in Health (EVAH) initiative is taking aim at a different bottleneck: the lack of rigorous, real-world evidence to guide governments on which AI solutions actually work. The three-year programme, launched on 20 February 2026 at the AI Impact Summit in N...