Malaysian health innovator to address UN on Zika mobile application


PETALING JAYA: Malaysian public health practitioner and epidemiologist Dr Dhesi Baha Raja (pix) will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday after he was selected to present his Zika-predicting mobile application to world leaders and policymakers. 

Dr Dhesi, who developed AIME (Artificial Intelligence in Medical Epidemiology), a disease-prediction mobile platform that employs technology and data to give people prior warning of when dengue and Zika outbreaks might occur, told The Star Online on Tuesday that he was excited to be presenting his solution to policymakers, world leaders and government agencies. 

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