Aashna Uppal: Investigating snakebite envenoming in LMIC settings and building data science capacity

DPhil student Aashna Uppal tells us about her research investigating snakebite envenoming in two low- and middle-income settings and building data science capacity alongside.
Aashna discusses her passion for snakes and data, focusing on the research gap in snakebite outcomes in low-income countries. Her team builds partnerships, conducts workshops, and identifies research questions. Using data digitisation and machine learning, they uncovered risk factors for amputation and debridement among snakebite patients in Nigeria and developed education interventions. They documented their process with the Pathfinder methodology to enable sustainable, locally-led research, aiming to improve global snakebite research output.
This presentation was recorded in October 2024, for NDM-Centre for Global Health Research Day.