Teaching & Service

Teaching and capacity building

Coordinator, Geospatial Modelling for Public Health Applications Workshop (MAP, 2024 to present)
An annual workshop on spatial modelling with INLA, now in its third cohort, drawing hundreds of applicants and participants from over seven African countries. I also built the reproducible selection pipeline used to choose each cohort.

Instructor, MAP Early Career Researcher Programme
Teach data management and functional programming in R in MAP’s six-month programme.

Instructor, AMMnet Hackathon: “Building an Interactive Malaria Dashboard with R Shiny” (online, July 2026)
Led a hands-on session for advanced R users on building an interactive malaria dashboard with Shiny and bslib, from reactive inputs and outputs to deployment on shinyapps.io. Event page

Trainer, AMMnet Tanzania “Introduction to R Training” (October 2026)
Taught reproducible workflows with R Markdown to about 30 students, lecturers and public health specialists. Received a Certificate of Appreciation.

Earlier teaching
Trained data clerks, data managers and research nurses in database practice (MITU, MUHAS), and lectured in computing at the University of Dar es Salaam.

Professional service

• Event Moderator, 2nd International Biometric Society (IBS) Tanzania Symposium, “Application of AI in Healthcare Research” (virtual, November 2026)

Memberships

• Applied Malaria Modeling Network (AMMnet), member and technical workgroup participant
• International Biometric Society, Tanzania Region
• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)

Awards

• HIV Research Trust Scholarship (GBP 10,000) for the LSHTM Advanced Course in Epidemiological Analysis
• Scholarship, International Summer School Uganda on Survey Methodology and Data Management (2021)