U-M & Kenya Collaboration Receives CGHE Impact Accelerator Grant to Advance Digital Pathology
By Beth Light | February 5The University of Michigan’s Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE) has announced a new round of funding for faculty-led research projects. Among the awardees is “Addressing Pre-Analytic Variation in Digital Pathology: U-M & Kenya Collaboration,” led by Ulysses G. J. Balis, MD, with Kamran Mirza, MBBS, PhD, serving as a co-investigator.
“Digital pathology has enormous potential to transform diagnostics worldwide, but only if we understand and manage the sources of variability that impact image quality and downstream analysis,” explained Dr. Balis. “This collaboration allows us to develop evidence-based approaches that strengthen diagnostic accuracy and capacity in Kenya, while directly informing best practices at Michigan and beyond.”
This project is one of three in this funding cycle to receive a CGHE Impact Accelerator Grant, which provides up to $100,000 to support action-oriented global health initiatives that improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income settings.
“This collaboration reflects a core principle of global health equity: solutions are strongest when they are co-created,” said Dr. Mirza. “By working closely with colleagues in Kenya, we are learning together how to improve diagnostic quality in real-world settings while building approaches to digital pathology and AI that are more thoughtful, trustworthy, and human-centered.”
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