The Malaria Detection Project
Saving lives one photo at a time...
Our goal is to put our mobile malaria screening solution into the hands of frontline healthcare workers in areas of great need. Using a smart device and our AI-enabled solution, workers can capture and analyze eye images on the spot - to help identify patients who may need further testing or immediate treatment. This can happen anywhere, with or without Internet connectivity.
Why does it matter?
Behind every statistic is a family. Malaria still claims roughly 600,000+ lives each year — most of them children under the age of five. Despite decades of progress, it remains one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases.
Why Malaria Matters
The Project Objective
Our goal is to put a malaria screening support tool in the hands of every frontline health worker who needs one — using only a smartphone and AI-analyzed eye images to help identify patients who may need urgent testing and treatment.
An Important Note:
This is a decision-support tool - not a replacement for standardized testing or confirmed diagnosis. We want to help health workers in remote settings identify cases faster, not bypass the clinical process. Every flagged patient still receives proper testing.
How it Works in the Field
An Easy 4 Step Process...
Protecting People & Data
Since 2020, our platform has been used in COVID-related clinical settings outside the US, where we’ve captured over 25,000 eye images and learned what works in real-world conditions.
That experience shaped how we design field workflows and care for participants.
Data can be formatted to global standards like HL7 FHIR, making it easy to integrate with existing health information systems.
Our malaria program will operate under its own ethics approvals and partner-led governance — built from the ground up with each collaborator.