Sintieh Nchinda Ngek Ekongefeyin is a Digital Society Initiative PhD candidate in the Digital and Mobile Health Group at the University of Zurich. He is a physician-scientist working at the intersection of clinical care, digital health, artificial intelligence, and implementation of healthcare technology, with a focus on non-communicable disease care in resource-limited settings. His work is guided by a central question: how can digital tools make care accessible, safe, and feasible for people living with chronic illnesses?

Sintieh trained as an MD and General Practitioner in Cameroon and later completed an MSc in Applied Digital Health at the University of Oxford. For over half a decade, his professional journey has taken him across frontline clinical care, digital health implementation, global health research, and health technology transfer. Before joining UZH, he worked as a primary care physician, led a non-communicable disease unit with the Ministry of Health in Cameroon, led digital health implementation projects as a Johnson & Johnson One Young World Global Health Scholar, served as a Research Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Mandela Washington Fellow at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Maryland, USA, and worked in technology transfer as a Venture Manager at King’s College London, London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE). He is a registered physician with the General Medical Council in the UK and the Cameroon Medical Council.

Within DMHG, his PhD explores how digital tools such as mHealth, electronic health records, and AI models can support safe, accessible, and context-specific healthcare. He is particularly interested in people-centred AI, digital transformation, and translating research into practical tools co-developed with healthcare users, healthcare professionals, and health systems.

Sintieh will be more than happy to talk with you if you have any topics/questions bridging clinical care, digital health, and AI.

Google Scholar

AIDAPT- Cameroon: (link on our group’s page once it is hosted)Digitization of Swiss Pediatric vaccination cards: https://www.prc.uzh.ch/en/research/seedgrants/vaccinationcards.html

CITL: Clinician in the loop AI and Clinical uncertainty: https://health.dsi.uzh.ch/project/citl/

Mapping two decades of multiple sclerosis research priorities at ECTRIMS: a longitudinal topic-modelling analysis.