New international project transforms schistosomiasis planning through trusted AI enablement and advanced modelling<\/a><\/p>\n\u2022 New international project transforms schistosomiasis planning through trusted AI enablement and advanced modelling vb0027 Tue, 04\/08\/2026 – 10:14 Press release A project to tackle schistosomiasis \u2013 a devastating tropical disease that affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide \u2013 has secured $1.5 million from the Gates Foundation.
\u2022 Researchers from the University of Surrey will use the funding to support the development of AI-powered planning tools that help countries deliver more effective control programmes.
\u2022 Credit: Prof Poppy Lamberton The international project, Operationalising Schistosomiasis Modelling to Support In-Country Program Development (OR-SCH), will combine advanced disease modelling with AI to help policymakers decide where, when and how to target treatment programmes based on local needs and resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Surrey news RSS feed \u00b7 yesterday New international project transforms schistosomiasis planning through trusted AI enablement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-846939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}