Diagnostics for Low and Middle-Income Countries Conference

1 July 09:00 to 2 July 17:30

Reuben College

Click here to view the 2025 Conference Programme. You can also read our Conference Report for 2025 here.

The Diagnostics for Low and Middle-Income Countries (DxLMICs) Conference at Reuben College is now in its third year.

Every year, it brings together graduate students from Oxford and UCL who are passionate about developing diagnostic tools to improve the healthcare of underserved populations to hear from, and interact with, experts who share this passion.

This year, the technologies covered will range from novel sensors (with a keynote talk from Professor Dame Molly Stevens) to the use of machine learning to enhance diagnoses. The first Professor of Global Health in Oxford, Professor Alan Bernstein, will also address the Conference. The diagnostic applications to be covered are broad, from neurology to cardiology, in addition to the usual focus on infectious diseases.

What we can learn from scientists, engineers and clinicians on the ground is a recurring theme of this meeting and the 2025 Conference will hear from speakers working in Africa, India and Vietnam.

In affiliation with this conference, we will also be running an online Data Science Workshop for postgraduate (MSc/DPhil/PhD) students, in collaboration with PhysioNet Challenges. This requires separate registration and you are welcome to attend, whether you are registered for the main conference or not.

Explore how to work with real clinical data to build and properly validate machine learning models to diagnose Chagas disease. Learn about the challenges, biases, and limitations in clinical data science - no coding experience needed! Featuring keynote talks from experts at Emory, Stanford, and UFMG.