Our mission
Maternal health guidance
in every language
MULAMU (Maternal Understanding through Language-Aware Multimodal AI in Uganda) builds open, multilingual AI models that deliver evidence-based prenatal and postnatal care information in Luganda, Runyankore-Rukiga, and Swahili — as text and audio — co-created with the communities they serve.
Addressing the critical gap where fewer than 60% of pregnant women in Uganda attend at least four WHO-recommended antenatal visits, MULAMU fine-tunes LLMs in regional languages and deploys them via mobile apps, web platforms, and SMS to ensure accessibility across varying levels of digital literacy.
Our team
The minds behind MULAMU

Dr. Kimera Richard
Principal Investigator
MUST, Uganda

Dr. Fred Kaggwa
Co-Principal Investigator
MUST, Uganda

Emmanuel Maleka
MUST, Uganda

Rogers Kuyeso
AI Engineer
MUST, Uganda
Institutions
Built across continents

Mbarara University of Science & Technology

Makerere University

Handong Global University

Ghent University

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Get involved
Help us reach more mothers
Whether you're a clinician, linguist, ML researcher, or funder — there's a place for you in MULAMU.