Center for
Global Health

International Scholar

Languages: English (Fluent), Setswana (Fluent)

Bio statement

As a HOD Computer Science, I have successfully led research projects including Microsoft-sponsored Digital Inclusion call of 2006 and 2008, a project in the Health sector that led to the establishment of the e-Health research unit in 2012. The unit continues to engage in Health Informatics research and has fostered wide-reaching collaboration within and beyond, NGO’s such as Botswana UPENN, Botswana Harvard Partnerships, CHOP and also with the Government through the Ministry of Health I am also spearheading a number of health-related research projects providing digital solutions under themes of Data Warehousing, Mining, IOT's and Interoperability.

Recent global health projects

1. Principal Investigator of a project entitled . "Evaluating Healthcare Data Collection, Sharing, and Use in Botswana"
2021, in Collaboration with CHOP, USA.
The project aims to understand the flow of healthcare data in Botswana from the front-line clinician through different
levels of reporting and aggregation and eventually back to the front-line clinician if any information is returned. Also
examining the perceptions of those that work with this data to understand their beliefs and views on data collection,
data flow, and data usability for clinical care and decision-making. In order to accomplish an understanding of the data
flow across so many sites, levels of the healthcare system and organizations .

2. Co Leader Microsoft Digital Inclusion Project Call of 2008:A project providing Digital Inclusion Healthcare Solution in
Botswana by use of Mobile phones
to Access HIV/AIDS Information (A Multimedia Approach)

Selected publications

1. Audrey Masizana , Zablon Akoko Mbero, Use of Wearables in the Dynamic World of IOT’s: A Case for Age Based
Care Data Visualization - Proc, of International Data Week (IDW2022), 18-22 June 2022. Seoul, Korea
https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/322/

2. Audrey Masizana, Zablon Akoko Mbero, "Interoperability On Health Care Data – The Missing Link For Better Decision

Making". Proc, of International Data Week (IDW2022), 18-22 June 2022. Seoul, Korea (Poster)
https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/469/

4. Z.A. Mbero , V.L Lakshmi Narasimhan, and A N Masizana, IOT-based critical care Applications for
the Aged” Poc of the 24th IFIP World Congress (Advanced Data Conference-ADC sub
Conference), Poznan, Poland, 17-21 Sept 2018. SAP Academic Conference, Germany, 10-14 Sept,
2018
5. Audrey Masizana. Chandrasekaran, Rajeswari, Clustering as an Artificial Intelligence
Technique in Drug Resistance of HIV/AIDS Patients: Case Study Botswana., Proceedings of
the IASTED African conferences published in 2014, Gaborone, Botswana published in
Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2014.

6. Audrey Masizana-Katongo, Torti Ama-Njoku, Example-Based Parsing Solution for a HIV
and AIDS FAQ System, International Journal of Research and Reviews in Wireless
Communications (IJRRWC), Vol. 1, No. 3, September 2011, ISSN: 2046-6447, pp 59 -65.

7. Audrey Masizana-Katongo, George Anderson, and Dimane Mpoeleng, “Healthcare FAQ
Information Retrieval Using SMS Language,” in Proc. of the Prato CIRN-DIAC (Community
Informatics Research Network-Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing)
Community Informatics Conference 2010, Larry Stillman and Ricardo Gomez (Eds.), Prato,
Italy, 27-29 October 2010, ISBN: 978-0-9581058-8-0, pp 1-8.

8. Masizana-Katongo A,N, Leburu T.K, Building an Expert System for HIV and AIDS
Information, Lecture Notes in Electronic Engineering and Computing Technology , Chapter
28, 2009, Springer. Netherlands

9. A.N. Masizana-Katongo, D. Mpoeleng, Tau T, Understanding HIV/AIDS Pandemic by
high performance Clusters Computing Epidemiology, The Second IASTED Africa
Conference on Modelling and Simulation (Africa MS 2008), 8 – 10 September, Gaborone,
Botswana, ISBN: 978-0-88986-763-5, pp. 314 – 324

10. Audrey Masizana-Katongo, Torti Ama-Njoku, Simulation as an Analytical Tool for a Healthcare
FAQ System, Proceeding of the International conference Information System, Computer
Engineering and Application (ICISCEA), Singapore, November , 2011, pp67 -80.

11. Audrey Masizana-Katongo, George Anderson, and Dimane Mpoeleng, “Healthcare FAQ
Information Retrieval Using SMS Language,” in Proc. of the Prato CIRN-DIAC (Community
Informatics Research Network-Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing) Community
Informatics Conference 2010, Larry Stillman and Ricardo Gomez (Eds.), Prato, Italy, 27-29 October
2010, ISBN: 978-0-9581058-8-0, pp 1-8.

12. Audrey N. Masizana-Katongo, George Anderson, Dimane Mpoeleng, Tsholofetso Taukobong,
Gontlafetse Mosweunyane, Oduronke T. Eyitayo, Bontle Gopolang (2010). An SMS-based
healthcare information storage and retrieval system. Proceedings of Third IASTED African
Conference Modelling and Simulation (AfricaMS 2010) September 6-8, 2010, Gaborone Botswana,pp 217-222

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13. A.N Masizana-Katongo, Taukobong T, Decision Support for Provision of HIV Treatments, IASTED
Africa 2008, Botswana, Proceedings of the Second IASTED Africa Conference on Modelling and
Simulation, AfricaMS 2008, September 8-10, Gaborone Botswana. 284-291.

14. A.N Masizana-Katongo & Taukobong T, Group Decision Support for Provision of HIV Therapy ,
IASTED Africa,Botswana, 2008 Proceedings of the Second IASTED Africa Conference on
Modelling and Simulation, AfricaMS 2008, September 8-10, Gaborone Botswana. ISBN: 978-0-
88986-763-5. Pp. 299-306.

15.G. Anderson, A.N. Masizana-Katongo, and D. Mpoeleng (2008) Organization of a Health
Informatics Research Project. Proceedings of the Second IASTED Africa Conference on Modelling
and Simulation, AfricaMS 2008, September 8-10, Gaborone Botswana. ISBN: 978-0-88986-763-5.
Development (ICTD), pp329-333, 2007, Bangalore, India.

Last Updated: 09 February 2023