User:Rebeccananonof/sandbox/Shamim Nabuuma

Shamim Nabuuma also known as Shamim Kaliisa Nabuuma is a Ugandan innovator, entrepreneur and founder of the CHIL group of companies who won the 2023 Forbes Africa Award Woman Award.

Background and Education
Shamim has been pursuing artificial intelligence in medicine.

Career
Shamim is the founder of CHIL AI lab, a company that offers mobile cancer screening and incorporates the use of ai guided e-oncology services to detect cervical and breast cancer.

Awards and Nominations
In 2018, Nabuuma received the Takeda Young Entrepreneur Award from the Takeda Foundation Japan for her work in Africa. Chil AI Lab Group, one of the companies of the CHIL group , received funding from WiNFUND in 2023.

Personal Life
Nabuuma's prominence has been increasing. In April 2020, she made history as the first Ugandan to appear on the cover of Forbes Magazine, when she was included in the magazine's Africa 30 under 30 list.