Academic Mentors
4 mentorsDr. Hens is a world-leading expert in infectious disease epidemiology and mathematical modelling. He mentors DASCLAB students on modelling HIV and malaria transmission dynamics in Kenya.
Prof. Pretorius brings decades of experience in clinical biostatistics and has mentored DASCLAB researchers through joint postgraduate training programmes between UoN and UWC.
Prof. van der Laan is the creator of Targeted Learning and TMLE. He provides intellectual mentorship to DASCLAB researchers working on causal inference in health settings.
Prof. Mwalili is a distinguished statistician with expertise in Bayesian inference and biostatistical modelling. He co-supervises several DASCLAB doctoral students on joint health data projects.
Research Collaborators
6 collaboratorsDASCLAB and iCog Labs jointly develop NLP benchmarks and datasets for African languages, with a focus on Swahili, Amharic, Oromo, and Yoruba.
Dr. Macharia leads spatial analysis projects at KEMRI WT and collaborates with DASCLAB on high-resolution malaria risk mapping across Kenya using geostatistical methods.
Dr. Hargrove is a pioneer in mathematical epidemiology in Africa. DASCLAB collaborates on HIV age-structured models and tsetse population dynamics.
Collaboration focuses on statistical analysis of critical care clinical trial data, including sepsis management outcomes in East African ICU settings.
Partnership focused on developing analytical frameworks for evaluating health intervention programme impact in sub-Saharan Africa.
Collaboration on AI applications in precision agriculture across southern and eastern Africa, using drone imagery and satellite data.
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