DSHub Software Engineering Ltd
📍 DSHub Internship Program
Week 2 Assignment: Cohort B 2026
Theme: "Healthcare Misinformation: Can AI Help Nigerians Make Better Health
Decisions?"
Case Partner: Otondo Team by DSHub
Focus SDG: SDG 3 — Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for All
📅 Assignment Duration: Monday, 22nd June 2026 – Monday, 29th June 2026
💧 Coldseat Requirement:
Each subgroup member is required to present a concise 1-minute report highlighting
progress, insights, challenges, and key learnings from the week's activities.
🔥 Hotseat Requirement:
Each Track Leader is required to present a concise 5-minute report summarizing team
activities, key findings, challenges, and recommendations.
Track: AI & Machine Learning
🤖 📊 Case Study:
Improving Access to Maternal Health Information in Northern Nigeria
📖 Overview
Many maternal health challenges in underserved communities are worsened by limited
access to timely, clear, and personalized health information.
Health workers and caregivers often rely on general advice that does not adapt to:
● User location
● Pregnancy stage
● Language preferences
● Level of understanding
To address this, a simple AI-powered system is being explored to help organize and
recommend maternal health information more effectively using structured datasets.
As an AI / ML Engineering Intern, your role is to work with a basic dataset to extract
insights, build simple models, and support intelligent classification or recommendation of
maternal health content.
🎯 Learning Objectives
By completing this assignment, interns will learn:
Basic machine learning workflow
Data preprocessing for ML
Feature selection and engineering
Simple classification or clustering models
Model evaluation basics
Data interpretation for real-world use cases
Ethical AI awareness in healthcare
📌 Individual Assignment Deliverables
1️⃣ Dataset Understanding & Exploration
Explore the maternal health dataset and describe:
● Number of records
● Key features available (region, topic, language, etc.)
● Missing or inconsistent data
● Possible ML use cases
Output:
● 1-page dataset exploration report
2️⃣ Data Preprocessing
Prepare the dataset for machine learning:
● Handle missing values
● Encode categorical features (region, language, topic)
● Normalize or scale numerical data (if needed)
● Clean inconsistent entries
Output:
● Cleaned dataset file
● Jupyter notebook with preprocessing steps
3️⃣ Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Analyze patterns in the dataset:
● Distribution of topics
● Regional representation
● Language usage
● Average content length or duration
Output:
● Visualizations (at least 3 charts)
● Short explanation of findings
4️⃣ Simple Machine Learning Model
Build ONE of the following:
Option A: Classification Model
Predict:
● Health topic category based on text or metadata
Option B: Clustering Model
Group:
● Similar maternal health content segments
Use:
● Scikit-learn
● K-Means, Logistic Regression, or Decision Tree
Output:
● Model code (Jupyter Notebook)
● Basic performance results (accuracy or cluster visualization)
5️⃣ Model Evaluation
Evaluate your model using:
● Accuracy (for classification)
● Confusion matrix (basic)
● Cluster interpretation (for unsupervised learning)
Explain:
● What the model is doing well
● Where it struggles
Output:
● Evaluation report (1 page)
6️⃣ Insight Interpretation for Real Use Case
Answer:
● How can this model improve maternal health communication?
● How can it support health workers or apps?
● What are the risks of using AI in healthcare messaging?
Output:
● 1-page insight report
7️⃣ Ethical AI Reflection
Discuss:
● Bias in healthcare datasets
● Language or regional imbalance issues
● Importance of fairness in AI systems
● Data privacy concerns in health data
Output:
● Short reflection (½–1 page)
📅 Book Office Hours (Early)
You are required to have an Officer Hour with the available mentors in your track. Contact the internship
coordinator for more information.
✅ Final Instructions:
✔ All deliverables must be put in one folder. Log all activities in your internship logbook.
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🧠 Remember
"The eye that sees far must also think wisely."
Best regards,
Gladys Ninyio
Executive Secretary, DSHub Ltd.
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