A partnership involving the Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM), Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and Gaiasoft International, United Kingdom, has been named one of three winners of the 2026 Africa-Europe Innovation Platform (AEIP) Public Health Thematic Challenge.
The winning partnership is behind TRAC, an artificial intelligence-assisted trauma intelligence platform designed to convert routine emergency-care documentation into structured, clinician-verified data for improved decision-making.
The project brings together clinical, research and technology expertise from Nigeria and the United Kingdom, with the aim of addressing persistent challenges in trauma care and health-system planning.
The initiative is led by the Provost of LASUCOM, Prof. Olufemi Idowu, alongside the UK delivery lead, Geraldine Bandari.
Through TRAC, the partners seek to transform information routinely generated during emergency care into actionable intelligence that can support referrals, improve coordination among healthcare providers and strengthen trauma surveillance.
The platform is also expected to help health authorities identify gaps and inequalities in access to trauma services, potentially providing evidence for more targeted service planning and resource allocation.
The Nigerian institutions bring expertise in clinical medicine, trauma and emergency care, research and health-system practice, while Gaiasoft contributes capabilities in artificial intelligence, medical natural language processing, digital transformation, secure cloud architecture, health-data interoperability, monitoring and evaluation.
The collaboration is expected to develop a system capable of extracting useful information from frontline clinical records while maintaining clinical verification and supporting the interoperability of health data.
For LASUCOM and LASUTH, the recognition places the institutions among a select group of Africa-Europe partnerships participating in an international innovation network focused on addressing public health challenges.
The award also highlights the growing role of partnerships between universities, teaching hospitals and technology organisations in developing digital solutions to challenges within healthcare systems.
The TRAC project further creates an opportunity for LASUCOM and LASUTH to deepen the integration of clinical practice, medical research and artificial intelligence, particularly in an area where timely and reliable data can influence emergency response and health-service planning.
The partnership’s selection as one of three winners of the 2026 AEIP Public Health Thematic Challenge is expected to support further development of the platform and strengthen collaboration between African and European institutions around technology-driven approaches to public health.
The initiative ultimately seeks to demonstrate how healthcare challenges identified at the frontline can be translated into data-driven solutions with potential applications beyond Lagos and wider relevance to health systems.
