MRC/UVRI Medical Informatics Centre

整理有关人类健康和疾病的信息，了解可能导致疾病的生物过程，有助于确定开发治疗这些疾病的新方法。复杂统计、计算资源和遗传信息的使用极大地促进了我们对人类疾病的理解。为了使非洲充分受益于计算技术的进步以及存储和管理“大科学数据”的方法，我们将需要确保非洲的研究人员能够在当地获得这些资源。作为国际合作的一部分，我们的目标是在乌干达建立一个计算网络和资源，并作为该计划的一部分培训下一代非洲计算机科学家。该项目将有助于促进我们对非洲疾病的了解，并提供一种方法来评估这些疾病的流行变化，包括艾滋病毒和其他慢性疾病，如糖尿病。

Collating information on human health and disease, and understanding the biological processes that may cause disease can help identify ways to develop new treatments for these diseases. The use of complex statistics, computational resources and genetic information has greatly facilitated our understanding of human disease. For Africa to fully benefit from the technological advances in computing and ways to store and manage "big scientific data", we will need to ensure that African researchers have access to such resources locally. As part of an international collaboration, we aim to build a computational network and resource in Uganda, and train the next generation of African computer scientists as part of this initiative. This project will help facilitate our understanding on diseases in Africa and also provide a way to assess changes in the prevalence of these diseases, including HIV and other chronic diseases such as diabetes.