2026
Mentions
CMU-Africa FINIA researchers publish new paper in Science Direct
CMU-Africa's Patrick McSherry, and Edith Luganga, along with CMU adjunct faculty Ganesh Mani, had a new paper entitled "Do individual and country-level factors cushion the impact of COVID-19 financial worry on digital financial inclusion in Africa?" recently published in Science Direct. The paper is part of their project entitled Financial Inclusion via Novel Intelligence and Alternative Data (or FINIA) and discusses the aftereffects of COVID-19 and digital financial inclusion in Africa.
CMU-Africa Community Research Posters Presentation
CMU-Africa students recently held a poster session to present their community research projects as part of a course with CMU-Africa instructor Kwan Lee.
Next Billion
CMU-Africa mentioned in Next Billion
Conrad Tucker and CMU-Africa were mentioned in Next Billion about the recent Africa HealthTech Summit.
Cell
Luhanga discusses human-centric AI
CMU-Africa’s Edith Luhanga was interviewed by Cell about her work using human-centric AI to advance maternal health, child nutrition, online safety, and financial inclusion in several African countries.
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