Africa’s Health Intelligence

Teaching the world’s AI to understand African patients.

Sankofa Health is the full-stack platform turning Africa’s real-world clinical record into world-class medical intelligence – so the models shaping global medicine work better for everyone. Sovereign by design, built to international standards, engineered for precision medicine.

17%
of the world’s people live in Africa
25%
of the global disease burden is carried here
No. 1
the most genetically diverse population on earth
Why we exist

Better medicine for everyone begins with better data for everyone.

The world is building the AI that will shape how medicine is practised. The richer and more representative the data behind it, the better that medicine works for every patient, everywhere. Africa’s clinical reality is the most valuable addition that data can have, and Sankofa brings it in, responsibly and at world standard.

Medicine that understands everyone

Representation in the data means care that works across more of humanity.

Africa benefits from its own data

Value created here stays here, on the continent’s own terms.

Trust built in from the start

Governance and protection are part of the design, present at every layer.

The platform

The full-stack engine for African health AI.

Sankofa builds the value layers – data, models and applications – on a sovereign, world-class foundation.

What Sankofa builds
Applications
Precision-health tools, analytics and clinical decision support.
Models
Sankofa-Med, synthetic-data engines and the African evaluation benchmark.
Data
Africa’s clinical record, curated, enriched and governed into an AI-ready corpus.
The foundation · with world-class partners
Infrastructure
Architecture and pipelines across in-continent nodes.
Compute
Accelerated GPU compute, inside the continent’s borders.
Energy
Sovereign data-centre and power capacity.
How it fits

From source to impact, Sankofa is the engine in the middle.

Inputs

Clinical recordsClaims & pharmacyDiagnostics & pathologyImaging & radiologyAssociated data sets
→

The Sankofa platform

Curate · model · serve
Applications
Models
Data
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Who we serve

Global AI labsPharma & life sciencesInsurers & reinsurersHealth systems & governmentResearch
The asset

Africa’s richest clinical record.

Curated, enriched and standardised to international norms – clean, accurate and ready for AI.

8–9M
de-identified patients
25+ yrs
continuous records, 2011–2026
44
enriched parameters per record
5
data streams: ICD-10, treatment, NAPPI, pathology, radiology

Growing daily and deepening – enriched with adjacent and specialist sources, including paediatric and other speciality care. Standardised to FHIR R4 and OMOP · processed and held on African soil.

What the platform powers

Real intelligence, for the people who need it.

Every product runs on the same governed African data, and answers a buyer who has been waiting for it – from training the world’s AI to evidence for pharma, insurers and governments.

AI training data

For global AI labs

Curated, de-identified African clinical data that trains and broadens healthcare AI.

Synthetic African data

For AI labs, pharma & CROs

Fully artificial patient records that scale research while every real patient stays private.

Pharma R&D & real-world evidence

For pharma & CROs

Trial-cohort diversity, drug-efficacy signals and post-market evidence (FDORA 2022).

African foundation models

For AI labs & health systems

African-calibrated clinical models, offered as a service and as the benchmark for African validity.

Precision medicine & diagnostics

For health systems & diagnostics

Predictive models and diagnostics calibrated for African populations.

Government & NGO analytics

For governments & funders

Population-health surveillance, disease-burden mapping and policy modelling.

The team

A senior team that has done this before.

Leaders who have built and sold health-data businesses, shaped policy and scaled ventures across African and global markets.

Dr David Fraser

Dr David Fraser

CEO & Chief Strategist

Innovator and entrepreneur; built Touchsides to a Heineken exit; former Group CTO at Blue Label Telecoms.

Gary Kaplan

Gary Kaplan

Chairman & CFO

Deep health-data and insurance-systems expertise; co-built Touchsides (Heineken exit); former Blue Label CEO.

Dr Roze Phillips

Dr Roze Phillips

Director, Chief Governance & Regulatory Officer

Medical doctor and futurist; former Accenture executive and Netcare non-executive; med-tech and public health.

Mike Mpanya

Mike Mpanya

Director, Chief Growth Officer

Deep African health experience with Discovery; leads the Cisco Africa fund; partnerships and government.

Lawrence Joffe

Lawrence Joffe

Chief Data Scientist

AI, platform build and data engineering end-to-end; former Data Engineering Lead at Heineken.

Fourteen strong – the full team covers
LeadershipFinance & businessRegulatoryMedicalPartnershipsOperationsAI & MLData ScienceData EngineeringEdge & IoTFull-stack & mobileResearch
Expansion across Africa

One platform, a continent of nodes.

We start in South Africa and follow sovereign compute across the continent – Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco – each an in-country node, each keeping its data at home.

Sankofa AI nodes across Africa
Partners

Built with world-class partners.

Sankofa runs on sovereign, world-leading accelerated compute, alongside the continent’s largest clinical-data networks and global AI labs. Major partnerships are being announced shortly.

Sovereign compute
Announcement imminent
Clinical data network
Announcement imminent
Global AI lab
Announcement imminent
Reinsurance
Announcement imminent

Newsroom

Partnership and milestone announcements will appear here first.

Coming soon

Africa’s health knowledge is our golden egg – decades of records across a billion lives. It was never lost. It was waiting.

Work with us

Let’s build it together.

Whether you’re a partner, an investor, or building the future of medicine, we’d like to hear from you.

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