Witsie recognised as one of Africa’s change leaders
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Propelled by ambition and motivated by success, Dr Bradley Max Segal is one of five Africans featuring in FORBES AFRICA's 30 Under 30 Class of 2025 cover story.
With a background as a medical doctor, biomedical engineer, and data scientist, Segal is a software engineer in the health sector who specialises in integrating advanced technologies with clinical practice to improve patient outcomes and streamline healthcare processes.
Segal graduated with distinction from Wits University, simultaneously completing his medical degree and MSc in Biomedical Engineering, where was supervised by Dr Adam Pantanowitz and Adjunct Professor David Rubin from the School of Electrical and Information Engineering.
He is currently a Rhodes Scholar and Clinical AI researcher at the University of Oxford's Computational Health Informatics Lab.His research focuses on practical applications of AI in healthcare, spanning synthetic medical imaging using generative models to machine learning-based risk prediction systems for infectious diseases.
Working in South Africa's public healthcare sector, Segal translates frontline clinical experience in resource-constrained environments into scalable healthcare solutions. As a technical founder, he has built healthcare technology companies delivering predictive analytics for preventable disease and patient monitoring platforms that actively track over 1.5 million patients. His work bridges the gap between clinical needs and technical implementation, particularly in disease screening, risk prediction, and chronic care management.
In 2020, with four others, he co-founded Engage Mx, a patient analytics platform that has grown to track over 1.5 million patients. According to Segal, the platform’s impact became clear the moment they launched their first automated patient engagement system.
“With a single command, we reached more patients than I had seen in my entire clinical career. To date, we’ve tracked over seven million consultations, monitored 250,000 chronic diseases, and successfully returned more than 20,000 non-adherent patients to active care.”
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As a clinician-engineer, Segal is dedicated to developing AI healthcare solutions that are both technically sophisticated and practically implementable across diverse healthcare settings. His current work focuses on integrating clinical decision making to ML tool design.
Parts of this story was first published in FORBES AFRICA. Read the full story.