Insights & media
Independently
reported.
RWBuild’s work is covered by international universities and national press — and documented in six peer-reviewed research publications.
Press coverage
- University of Utah Health U researchers help implement potentially life-saving ambulance communication system in Rwanda 47% of injury deaths occur before patients reach hospital — 912Rwanda is changing that.
- University of Birmingham Rwanda launches ambulance communication system that could save many lives A unique electronic system speeding hospital transfers across Kigali.
- The New Times Local tech company secures Rwf4bn to speed hospital transfers Major research funding from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research.
- The New Times Technology start-ups: the potential waiting to happen The startup sub-sector as Rwanda’s answer to youth unemployment.
Peer-reviewed research
Published science, not just software
912Rwanda is one of the few African health platforms whose design, deployment, and outcomes are documented in the academic literature — six peer-reviewed studies co-authored by RWBuild’s founder with partners at the University of Utah, University of Birmingham, University of Rwanda, and Rwanda’s Ministry of Health.
- 2020 — Global Health Innovation Journal: Collaboration for preliminary design of a mobile health solution for ambulance dispatch in Rwanda.
- 2023 — NIH: Challenges and opportunities to improve efficiency and quality of prehospital emergency care using an mHealth platform.
- 2024 — BMJ Open: Mapping the processes and information flows of a prehospital emergency care system in Rwanda.
- 2025 — BMJ Open: Developing and integrating a destination decision support algorithm: 912Rwanda study protocol.
- 2025 — International Journal of Emergency Medicine 18(1): Reaching the right facility for emergency patients: destinations of patients transported by EMS in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 2025 — BMJ Open: Use of an innovative electronic communications platform (912Rwanda) to improve prehospital transport of injured people in Rwanda.