Academic Mentors

4 mentors
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Dr. Niel Hens
Professor of Biostatistics
location_onHasselt University / University of Antwerp · Belgium

Dr. 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.

Infectious Disease ModellingMathematical Epidemiology
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Prof. Carel Pretorius
Professor of Biostatistics
location_onUniversity of the Western Cape · South Africa

Prof. Pretorius brings decades of experience in clinical biostatistics and has mentored DASCLAB researchers through joint postgraduate training programmes between UoN and UWC.

Survival AnalysisClinical TrialsBiometry
handshakeJoint Research & Postgrad Training
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Prof. Mark van der Laan
Professor of Statistics
location_onUniversity of California, Berkeley · USA

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.

Targeted LearningCausal InferenceNonparametric Statistics
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Prof. Samuel Mwalili
Professor of Statistics & Biostatistics
location_onJomo Kenyatta University (JKUAT) · Kenya

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.

Bayesian MethodsLongitudinal DataHIV Modelling
handshakePhD Thesis Co-supervision

Research Collaborators

6 collaborators
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Dr. Abebe Diro
AI Research Lead
location_oniCog Labs · Ethiopia

DASCLAB and iCog Labs jointly develop NLP benchmarks and datasets for African languages, with a focus on Swahili, Amharic, Oromo, and Yoruba.

NLP for African LanguagesDeep LearningAMR
scienceAfrican NLP Benchmark Project
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Dr. Eunice Macharia
Research Scientist
location_onKEMRI Wellcome Trust · Kenya

Dr. Macharia leads spatial analysis projects at KEMRI WT and collaborates with DASCLAB on high-resolution malaria risk mapping across Kenya using geostatistical methods.

Malaria EpidemiologySpatial AnalysisHealth Data
scienceJoint Research — Malaria Mapping Project
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Dr. John Hargrove
Emeritus Professor
location_onSACEMA — Stellenbosch University · South Africa

Dr. Hargrove is a pioneer in mathematical epidemiology in Africa. DASCLAB collaborates on HIV age-structured models and tsetse population dynamics.

HIV EpidemiologyTsetse Fly DynamicsMathematical Biology
scienceJoint Publications & Training
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Dr. Nchafatso Obonyo
Clinical Researcher
location_onKEMRI / Wellcome Trust · Kenya

Collaboration focuses on statistical analysis of critical care clinical trial data, including sepsis management outcomes in East African ICU settings.

Critical CareSepsisClinical Trials
scienceClinical Data Analysis Partnership
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Dr. Sarah Brown
Data Science Director
location_onGlobal Fund · Switzerland

Partnership focused on developing analytical frameworks for evaluating health intervention programme impact in sub-Saharan Africa.

Global Health AnalyticsProgramme EvaluationR
scienceHealth Data Analytics Partnership
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Prof. Dorcas Mthangwane
Associate Professor of CS
location_onUniversity of Botswana · Botswana

Collaboration on AI applications in precision agriculture across southern and eastern Africa, using drone imagery and satellite data.

Computer VisionAI for AgricultureRemote Sensing
sciencePan-African AI Research Network
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