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Africa's Biosecurity Partner

Stopping the nextpandemic before itleaves Africa's soil.

Training defenders, writing blueprints, building cutting-edge AI tools, and tracking global outbreaks in real time — one platform for genomics surveillance, outbreak intelligence, and pandemic preemption.

World map illustrating international and local transmission of pathogens out of Africa via air and road travel
16+
African Countries
Trained
4
Strategic
Pillars
19mo
Active IHVN
Contract
$1M
Sought to Scale
Continent-Wide
Mission & Strategy

We exist to make pandemics
a solved problem for Africa.

Africa faces a Capacity Paradox — sequencing hardware donated after COVID-19 sits idle because the trained workforce, national strategy, and sovereign data infrastructure to use it do not exist. RadarGenomics is building all four pillars, in parallel.

01

Building the Defence Force

Training a horizontal Bio-Intelligence workforce capable of analysing metagenomic, wastewater, and vector-borne data across pathogen families. Already active across 16+ African countries.

02

Writing the Blueprints

Designing National Genomic Blueprints for Ministries of Health — integrating multi-sentinel surveillance, data sovereignty frameworks, and biosafety protocols tailored to African contexts.

03

Activating the Early Warning Grid

Deploying AI-powered surveillance nodes — wastewater, aircraft waste, hospital, and vector monitoring — so Africa detects pathogens in the environment before they reach hospitals or cross borders.

04

Building Next-Generation Tools

Developing cutting-edge technologies — from Graph Neural Network epidemic forecasters and VirCapSeq-VERT metagenomic pipelines to sovereign AI platforms — engineered specifically to prevent the next pandemic and epidemic before it starts.


Surveillance Intelligence

A multi-sentinel approach
to pathogen intelligence.

Our framework spans emerging and re-emerging pathogens — viruses and bacteria alike — integrating genomics, AI, and ecological data to provide actionable early warnings at national and regional scale.

Wastewater Surveillance

Community-level detection of viruses and bacteria through environmental metagenomics, enabling population-scale early warning before clinical cases emerge.

Aircraft Waste Monitoring

Screening international flight wastewater to intercept cross-border pathogen introductions at ports of entry before they seed community transmission.

Hospital Surveillance

Syndromic and genomic sentinel surveillance in clinical settings to detect unusual clusters and emerging variants — viral and bacterial — before outbreak thresholds are breached.

Human–Animal Interface

Metagenomic surveillance at zoonotic spillover hotspots — livestock, wildlife markets, and forest frontiers — to intercept novel pathogens before first human transmission.

Vector Surveillance

Population genomics and pathogen screening of Aedes, Anopheles, and other vectors to map transmission risk and detect emerging arboviruses before epidemic spread.

AI-Powered Forecasting

Graph Neural Networks and transformer models integrating genomic, ecological, and mobility data to deliver actionable multi-horizon epidemic forecasts for health authorities.


Our Work

A three-tiered model built
to evolve with our clients.

We meet institutions where they are and scale alongside them through every phase of preparedness.

I
Phase 1 — Now

The Genomic Academy

Workforce-as-a-Service. Expert teams embedded for 12–24 months, delivering hands-on training across Pathogen, Human, AMR, and Environmental genomics. Currently active with IHVN and Africa CDC across East and West Africa.

II
Phase 2 — Mid-Term

The Blueprint Advisory

National Genomic Blueprints for Ministries of Health — integrating multi-sentinel surveillance (wastewater, vectors, hospital), data sovereignty frameworks, and biosafety protocols. Our model enabled IHVN to secure a $10,000 grant for Nigeria's first Disease X wastewater pilot.

III
Phase 3 — Long-Term

The Sovereign Surveillance Grid

Radar Cloud — a sovereign data lake for African genomic data — plus AI-driven surveillance nodes spanning wastewater, aircraft waste, hospital sentinel, human–animal interface, and vector monitoring, completing the transition to proactive biosecurity.

Traction & Impact

The mission is already operational.

Signed contracts, professionals trained across the continent, and international funding secured for partner institutions — before a single external investment round.

Active Contract · 19 Months

Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN)

A retainer engagement delivering genomics training and infrastructure guidance for the NIH-funded INFORM Africa Project, working with population-scale HIV and SARS-CoV-2 datasets across Nigeria and South Africa.

Grant Success · PREPARE Project

Disease X Wastewater Surveillance · $10,000 USD

Designed the full surveillance architecture — AI-driven pathogen detection, VirCapSeq-VERT metagenomic workflows, and REVEAL geospatial canal mapping — enabling IHVN's first Disease X wastewater pilot in Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory.

East Africa · Oct 2024

Africa CDC Bioinformatics Workshop, Addis Ababa

Advanced genomic epidemiology modules delivered for public health professionals from eight East African countries as part of the African Pathogen Genomics Initiative.

West Africa · Aug 2023

Africa CDC Bioinformatics Workshop

Trained professionals from 12 African countries in sequencing QC, bioinformatics pipeline interpretation, and genomic data visualisation for public health decision-making.

Insights & Analysis

Field intelligence from
the frontlines of outbreak science.

Analysis, commentary, and deep dives from the RadarGenomics team on genomics surveillance, pandemic preparedness, and Africa's biosecurity future.

Wastewater Surveillance

Why Sewage Is Africa's Most Powerful Pandemic Early Warning System

Before a single patient walks into a hospital, their pathogen may already have been shed into the wastewater system. Here's why metagenomics of sewage is one of the most democratic — and underused — tools in outbreak prevention.
Dr. Ifeanyi Omah  ·  April 2026
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AI & Genomics

Graph Neural Networks and the Future of Epidemic Forecasting in Africa

How machine learning models trained on phylogenetic trees, mobility data, and environmental signals are changing what it means to predict — not just react to — outbreaks in low-resource settings.
Dr. Ifeanyi Omah  ·  March 2026
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Policy & Capacity

The Sequencer Paradox: Africa Has the Hardware — Not the Workforce

Many sequencers acquired after COVID-19 risk sitting below capacity across African public health labs. This piece examines the workforce gap, the blueprint deficit, and what RadarGenomics is doing to close it.
Dr. Ifeanyi Omah  ·  February 2026
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Led by scientists at the frontier
of every major outbreak.

Ifeanyi Omah(PhD)
Dr. Ifeanyi Omah
Founder & CEO · RadarGenomics International

Ifeanyi is a computational infectious-disease epidemiologist completing a PhD in Molecular Evolution, Epidemiology, and Phylogenetics at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Andrew Rambaut FRS. His doctoral work elucidated the zoonotic origins, evolution, and transmission dynamics of Ebola and Mpox, with findings published in Science and Nature.


Selected Honours
  • Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellow, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2025)
  • Wellcome Trust £36,000 Transition Fund for Postdoctoral Research (2025)
  • Wellcome Trust Four-Year PhD Scholarship, University of Edinburgh — selected 6 of 600+ (2021)
  • Mastercard Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship — selected 22 of 4,000+ (2020)
  • Edinburgh Award for Outstanding Leadership (2021)
Selected Publications
2026
Abdullahi A., Omah I., et al. Sero-genomic evidence for occult mpox exposure in healthy Nigerian adults. Nature Communications.
2025
Parker E., Omah I.F., et al. Genomics reveals zoonotic and sustained human mpox spread in West Africa. Nature.
2023
O'Toole Á., ..., Omah I.F., et al. APOBEC3 deaminase editing in mpox virus as evidence for sustained human transmission since at least 2016. Science, 382(6670), 595–600.
Contact & Partnerships

Let's build Africa's
pandemic defence together.

Location
Ashworth Laboratories
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
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