I am a Research Data Scientist at the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) East Africa Node, based at Ifakara Health Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with a joint affiliation to The Kids Research Institute Australia. I lead the Node’s Data Engineering Team and coordinate MAP’s Geospatial Modelling training programme.
My work turns messy, multi-source health data into spatial evidence that health programmes can act on. I build reproducible pipelines that harmonise health facility data across sub-Saharan Africa, model how long it takes people to reach care, and measure how climate hazards such as floods disrupt that access. I then package the results as dashboards and portals for National Malaria Control Programmes.
Before MAP, I spent over a decade managing data for clinical trials and cohort studies in Tanzania, including household GPS data collection, multi-country trial databases and data quality systems.
Research interests
- Geographic accessibility and travel-time modelling for health services
- Climate hazards (floods) and disruption of access to care
- Spatial data science and Earth observation data for public health
- Reproducible data pipelines and decision tools for malaria programmes
Education
MSc Health Informatics, University of Dar es Salaam, 2025
BSc Information Systems, University of Dodoma, 2011
Countries I work with
Tanzania · Uganda · Nigeria · Benin · Burkina Faso · Zambia · Mozambique