Jude Kong

What a joy hosting Johannah (Leadership by Design Grade 11),
Her thoughtful questions about my journey, challenges, and our work across Canada & Africa made for such an engaging conversation.
Grateful for programs that link Black youth with Black leaders in the workplace.

It was a pleasure hosting Ms. Hong from the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare

We discussed AI work across @dlsphjournalism.bsky.social (incl. @aimmlab.bsky.social) improving patient care & safety, and AI already deployed in Canadian hospitals to detect high-risk patients.

Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦

Big thanks to Davide Montesarchio for your talk in our lab last Friday (Jan 30, 2026) on science communication—loved it. 🙏

“Science is not finished until it’s communicated.” 💡

Thank you Prof Veillard for inviting me to your Global Quality of Care course to speak on AI + digital innovation for quality of care & patient safety. Key message: impact at scale—especially in LMICs—depends on governance, implementation, and context.

Integrating deep-learning methods and web-based data sources for surveillance, forecasting and early warning of avian influenza Abstract. Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), especially the H5N1 subtype has caused repeated global outbreaks, primarily affecting birds, but occasi

🚨 New Publication:
We show how web-based, environmental & climatic data + historical cases improve early warning of avian influenza in Canada using deep learning. GRU models were most accurate; Facebook activity & temperature also key.
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

🚨 New Preprint | AI-Powered Mosquito Surveillance

🦟Vector-borne diseases cause 700k+ deaths/yr, hitting low-resource regions hardest
We present MosquitoTrack: a low-cost, AI-enabled IoT system for real-time, offline mosquito surveillance using acoustic & environmental sensing

Day 1 of the @AIM_Sciences Workshop on Formal Scientific Modeling: A Case Study in Global Health.

It was great catching up with Prof. Baez and engaging with his lecture on leveraging category theory for scientific modeling.

In Caltechfor the AIM Workshop on Formal Scientific Modeling: A Case Study in Global Health.

Looking forward to catching up with colleagues, exploring new collaborations, & working together on advancing modeling approaches to address complex challenges in global health

It was a pleasure welcoming the CEO of Aviro Health, to @aimmlab.bsky.social today
We explored exciting opportunities for collaboration between Aviro and AIMMLab, including Point-of-Need technologies.
We look forward to developing this collaboration further.

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉
Thank you all for making 2025 amazing—61+ publications, AI solutions strengthening healthcare, and incredible teamwork. Grateful to our funders & team. Excited for 2026!

New preprint: Equity-first governance for LLMs in digital health. We audited LLaMA-3.2, Mistral-7B & DeepSeek (450 culturally grounded prompts, FNMWCF). Takeaway: technical adequacy ≠ equitable adequacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #DigitalHealth #HealthEquity #ResponsibleAI

🚨 Faculty jobs in Canada 🇨🇦 | Open to international researchers
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program is recruiting globally across Canadian universities in areas like AI, health, climate, food & water, clean tech, democracy, manufacturing & defence
tinyurl.com/dj9zbm9k

🧬 New preprint out!
HPAI in Canada 🇨🇦
We identify national & local HPAI hotspots using spatial analysis + ML. Key drivers include waterfowl density, poultry premises, vegetation & air quality—supporting targeted, risk-based surveillance.
Link: tinyurl.com/2xm2rf39

☺️ African Society for Mathematical Epidemiology — December meeting was 🔥
Great Ask a Mathematical Epidemiologist session on internship opportunities across Africa and career pathways in #MathEpi.
So inspiring to see the passion and growth of our community. Looking forward to January!

I am deeply honored to be appointed as a Massey Senior Fellow and Massey Scholar on AI and Humanitarianism.

I am profoundly grateful to God and to the Massey College community for this opportunity and for their trust. I look forward to contributing to and supporting the College’s vision

I am very much looking forward to this important event tomorrow, organized by @ai4pep.bsky.social DRC in partnership with WHO AFRO and the Ministry of Public Health,
Looking forward to seeing everyone there as we advance AI-driven, community-centered solutions for universal health coverage

Grateful to IDRC for the opportunity to join the 2025 Annual Public Meeting as a panelist on how locally led research creates measurable impact. We discussed Southern leadership, evidence-to-action, and resilient futures.

🌟 At IDRC’s Annual Meeting, AIMMLab Director Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social was glad to connect with Ms. Chaitali Sinha, whose support continues to strengthen AI4PEP’s community-driven work across the Global South.

Grateful for her leadership and partnership.

#IDRC #AI4PEP #AIMMLab

No surprises here—Canada at #1 feels right!
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Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canada’s digital health defences Shadow AI is the unsanctioned use of AI systems without formal institutional oversight. In health care, it means pasting patient details into public chatbots.

Please check out our latest article:

“Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine our digital health defences.” 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

theconversation.com/silent-cyber...

Last week, I hosted Prof. Romulo de Castro & team from AI4PEP Philippines at @aimmlab.bsky.social .Together with AI4PEP Ethiopia, we celebrated AI solutions strengthening healthcare systems & explored new collaborations. Thank you for the productive visit!

Loved hosting undergrad students from CURE at AIMMLab yesterday! 🌟 Their curiosity and excitement for research is inspiring. Thank you for visiting — we can’t wait to have you back!

Thank you @unhcrcanada.bsky.social for this beautiful medal! Such a thoughtful gesture

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Great meeting @KellyTClements and @TraceyMaulfair at the UNHCR Canada “Philanthropy Beyond Borders” Conference on Nov 19. Thank you for the hospitality & for the vital work you do around the world. 🙏 Thanks also to Nader El Nakib — looking forward to collaborating.

Honoured to speak at UNHCR Canada’s Philanthropy Beyond Borders on innovation in philanthropy. Shared our AI telehealth work for refugees, our Agentic AI youth training, and the upcoming AI4Refugees partnership with UNHCR Canada + Nobellum.
Grateful for the inspiring leaders I met.

Incredible meeting with @MadeleineChenet at Science Meets Parliament! 🚀

We discussed building AI literacy, strengthening community bonds, and developing responsible AI with input from STEM, humanities & social sciences. Truly inspired by your vision & leadership.

Science Meets Parliament: Meeting with Hon. Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health

It was a pleasure to meet with Honourable Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health, during the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health while in Ottawa for the Science Meets Parliament event.

Great meeting Senator @colindeacon.bsky.social at Science Meets Parliament.

Shared our MosquitoTrack 🦟 AI + IoT system and our Agentic AI for Youth program empowering students to build responsible AI.

Thank you, Senator!

Science Meets Parliament Meeting with MP Vincent Ho
Met to discuss the Agentic AI for Youth Program — kids learning AI, solving real community problems, and some leaving with their own AI business! Excited to explore supporting the Science & Research Committee.

Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canada’s digital health defences Shadow AI is the unsanctioned use of AI systems without formal institutional oversight. In health care, it means pasting patient details into public chatbots.

🚨 New in @ConversationCA: Shadow AI is quietly putting Canada’s digital health system at risk.
Clinicians using public AI tools for notes + translations may be unknowingly leaking patient data outside secure networks.
Read more: doi.org/10.64628/AAM...