Nathalie is a medical doctor. She graduated from the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and earned a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Bordeaux. She has over a decade of experience in clinical research and healthcare delivery in Burkina Faso with the Ministry of Health, and in The Gambia with the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) as a Research Clinician/study coordinator on various studies (malaria, maternal and neonatal mortality and sepsis, and child neuro development). 

Nathalie is registered for a PhD at the University of Barcelona data on intrapartum related asphyxia in sub–Saharan African. 

She is currently a WHO/TDR fellow on clinical research leadership at IDDO for 12 months to develop competencies on evidence synthesis, meta-analysis, statistical methodology, data governance infrastructure, and data privacy. Her research will investigate the utilisation and access to the antenatal cares in Kenya and Burkina using the data from MiMBa registry.

Juan is a physician with a master's degree in epidemiology and certified as a field epidemiologist by the National Institute of Health of Colombia, Tephinet, and the CDC. He has experience in clinical care, public health, and research. Juan currently works at CIDEIM in Colombia as a medical researcher, specifically focusing on malaria recurrence and malaria associations with climate change. Other responsibilities include biostatistical analysis and data management. 

His research career focuses on analytical methodologies that integrate data from public health surveillance and clinical care to strengthen evidence-based interventions. Juan is currently a TDR/WHO Clinical Research and Leadership Fellow at IDDO. His participation in IDDO is based on learning about neglected tropical diseases such as leishmaniasis and malaria using methodologies for data analysis and management, combining information from national surveillance systems and clinical research for early detection and response to infectious disease threats, including results for decision-making in public health policies.

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Cindy was a WHO/TDR Clinical Research Leadership Fellow at Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, University of Oxford, from 2024 to 2025. She worked on a malaria in pregnancy research project, with an interest in gaining more knowledge and skill about research and evidence-based medicine.

Before joining IDDO, Cindy worked as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. She treated many healthy pregnant women and also those with diseases, such as hepatitis B, HIV, syphilis, tuberculosis, dengue hemorrhagic fever, etc. She graduated from Obstetrics and Gynecology Study Program at Faculty of Medicine Universitas Sriwijaya in 2022 and as a medical doctor at the same university in 2016. 

Cindy is a member of National Task Force of Reproductive Tract Infection Indonesian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, whose main concern is the antimicrobial resistance and triple elimination eradication programme led by the Indonesian government for all pregnant women. The purview of the programme includes Hepatitis B, HIV, and syphilis, and endemic diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and DHF. 

Dawit Getachew Assefa holds a Master of Science in Clinical Trials from Addis Ababa University and is a Clinical Trials Specialist and Lecturer at Dilla University, Ethiopia. He has also worked as a Professional Nurse at Dilla University Referral Hospital and Sekota District Health Center.

He has led a randomized trial on participant-centered adverse event surveillance following measles immunization in Ethiopia and contributed to multi-country TB prevention research with the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

Dawit was a WHO/TDR Postgraduate Research Fellowship at the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) in 2024. He led an epidemiological study on visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil using national surveillance data, during this time. 

Dawit is currently an Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) Visiting Fellow, leading a project on trachoma among Ethiopian children using advanced analytical and machine learning methods.

His research focuses on poverty-related and neglected tropical diseases, particularly visceral leishmaniasis, trachoma, malaria, and tuberculosis. He has extensive experience in clinical research, epidemiology, and evidence synthesis, including IPD meta-analyses and systematic reviews. Through his academic and research work, Dawit aspires to strengthen clinical research capacity in low-resource settings and generate evidence that informs equitable health policies in Africa and beyond.

Before joining IDDO in Feb-2022 for his WHO/TDR fellowship, Jeannhey worked as a data manager for the Central Africa Network on Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Malaria (CANTAM) and PANDORA Project in Republic of Congo (2011-2022). He provided data related support on several biomedical and epidemiological projects, including data management for an antimalarial clinical trial at Brazzaville.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, he contributed to the establishment of data management system at his home Institution. He also provided statistical support to research projects at Congolese foundation for Medical Research.

At IDDO, I furthered his training on biostatistics and enhanced data skills.

Abdalla Munir holds a B.Sc. in clinical laboratory science from King Saud University (2014) and MSc. In Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2018).

Abdalla has worked as a clinical data manager at the department of clinical pathology and immunology, Institute of Endemic Diseases (IEND), University of Khartoum. His role involves working on raw clinical trial data (entry, analysis and reporting). Abdalla works closely with the field team reviewing the records and validating the data. Additionally, Abdalla works on non-clinical trials data from previous projects.

Abdalla joined IDDO in April 2022 as WHO/TDR fellow to work on Visceral Leishmaniasis data to understand the importance of host and drug parameters in identifying the areas of unmet needs in treatment of VL.

Aboubakar joined IDDO in February 2022 as an EDCTP-Clinical Research and Product Development Fellow from the Centre MURAZ/NIPH in Burkina Faso.

He trained as a pharmacologist and has research interests on epidemiological aspect of malaria and other infectious diseases such as Covid-19. His research has focused on in vitro and in vivo assessment of antimalarial drugs and in vitro evaluation of anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity.

At IDDO, he developed broader skills on biostatistics, clinical research data management, and design and conduct of systematic reviews.

Daniel Yilma is academician and an Internal Medicine physician in Jimma University Medical Center (JUMC). He obtained his PhD at the University of Copenhagen. He established clinical trial unit at JUMC and conducted infectious disease research mainly on HIV, Tuberculosis, COVID-19 and malaria.

Daniel joined IDDO/WWARN as a WHO/TDR fellow while continuing his research as a University of Cape Town (UCT) post-doctoral fellow, at the UCT Collaborating Centre for Optimising Antimalarial Therapy. He served as member of malaria case management team at national level. His work with WWARN and other collaborators focussed on findomg safe, effective and simplified malaria treatment and diagnostic tools.

Dr Clifford George Banda was a Clinical Research Fellow working with the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, the College of Medicine in Malawi and WWARN. He worked to understand antimalarial-antiretroviral treatment optimisation in special populations such as pregnant women and young children.

Clifford studied medicine in Malawi and later graduated with an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2016. He was a TDR Fellow within WWARN and worked on formulating the Malaria Clinical Trials Toolkit, followed by specialist training in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Cape Town. 

Amadou was a IDDO TDR/WHO fellow who worked on IDDO's schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases theme, while based at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London.

A Disease Surveillance Officer with the Gambia Ministry of Health, he focussed on developing skills in data management, research and biostatistical analysis, infectious disease modelling using R, as well as systematic review training and other activities integral to work at IDDO.