Dr Farhad Shokraneh has 20 years of experience and a PhD in Evidence Synthesis. He joined IDDO in October 2023 as Evidence Synthesis Manager.

Previously, he has worked at the University of Nottingham, King's College London, University College London, UCLH, and Cambridge University in similar roles. He has led teams to deliver projects to clients such as WHO, UN, UNICEF, FDA, UK NIHR, Cochrane, AWMF, and NICE.

As a passionate methodologist and change maker, Farhad is a co-author of the Cochrane Handbook, an editor of Systematic Reviews journal and has designed the first and most sensitive search strategy for COVID-19 literature and the first living search strategy and coined concepts such as 'Search-Resistant Concepts', 'Search Pyramid', 'Living Search Strategy', and 'Iterative Systematic Reviews'.

Yanina joined IDDO in March 2023. As a Data Manager, she is working on transforming and curating datasets, with a focus on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

Prior to joining IDDO, Yanina worked as a Research Assistant in Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Earlier, Yanina gained her MD qualification in Ukraine, followed by a Joint Masters Degree in Public Health from the University of Sheffield and French School of Public Health (EHESP).

Justine joined IDDO in February 2023.  As a Data Manager she works on the management and transformation of diverse data sets that are submitted to IDDO and ensures the completeness and accuracy of the data in the IDDO data repository.

Previously, Justine worked as a Data Manager and Data Entry Clerk in the Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit as part of the SIMPLIFIED Trial from 2020 to 2023. As a Data Manager, she provided oversight data collection and data linkage in the trial.

Justine has a BSc in Biological Sciences from University of Hertfordshire and MSc in Clinical Drug Development from Queen Mary, University of London.

Barrack's role with IDDO entails web application development and providing system support to the team.

He previously worked as Database Administrator at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust providing software development and data support for Clinical Trial Projects.

Barrack holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Tony joined IDDO as a Data Manager in January 2023. He works to transform and curate data sets submitted to IDDO and to preserve the completeness and accuracy of the data stored within the IDDO repository.

Prior to joining IDDO he worked on studies of acute HIV infections, HIV-exposed sero-negatives, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) which were conducted at a satellite KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme-clinic in Mtwapa, and Community HIV Centre, in Kilifi Kenya. In his most recent role, he was managing data on COVID-19 related studies.

Tony holds a Bachelors in Applied Statistics with Computing from the University of Eldoret, Kenya.

Rhys joined IDDO in January 2023. In the role of Statistician, he collaborates with IDDO Scientists to create analysis datasets, transforming data from the CDISC SDTM standard, which IDDO uses to store data, to formats easily usable for further research. Additionally, he has worked closely on the MiMBa initiative assessing antimalarial treatment for pregnant women, by developing an efficient, reproducible data pipeline with colleagues in Burkina Faso and Kenya, as well as providing statistical support to a variety of other projects on Chagas, WHO's ICTRP platform and developing R packages. Alongside other IDDO colleagues, Rhys also leads practicals on the Medical Statistics module on the MSc Modelling in Global Health at University of Oxford. 

Prior to working in Oxford, Rhys spent five years at Lancaster University completing a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics with Statistics (with Placement Year) and a Master’s in Data Science. During which he was President of the Lancaster Student Scout and Guide Organisation (SSAGO), spent his placement year with IBM as a Financial Analyst, played Rugby Union for the university and served as a Student Trustee of the Student’s Union.

Martial Battain joined the IDDO informatics teams as senior software engineer in 2022.

Martial has a Masters degree in Engineering and prior to joining IDDO he was a freelancer, building web applications.

As part of the Informatics team he's in charge of the design and implementation of web applications to support the scientific needs.

Stella Maris Nanyonga joined the Medicine Quality Research Group as a Research Pharmacist-AMR in 2022. She coordinates the work on analysing the prioritisation of interventions countering substandard and falsified antimicrobials in National Action Plans against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Stella has worked as a pharmacist since 2010 and has previously worked as a hospital Pharmacist and with the Medicine Regulatory Authority in Uganda.

Stella holds a degree in Pharmacy from Makerere University in Uganda, an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy, International Practice and Policy from the London School of Pharmacy and an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Makerere University. Stella brings on board pharmacy input to a research network of data scientists, forensic biologists, chemists, sociologists, data scientists, software engineers, modellers, and physicians as well as the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) informatics and data management teams working on parallel research on the use of biological and chemical forensics to analyse and model the impact of substandard and falsified antimicrobials on patient outcome and antimicrobial resistance.

Dr James Wilson is an infectious diseases and internal medicine physician in the UK. In October 2022 he started a PhD with the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory and the Oxford Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health. Under the supervision of Professor Philippe Guerin, Dr Kasia Stepniewska and Dr Prabin Dahal, his PhD will explore clinical trial data in visceral leishmaniasis, specifically the application of individual-patient data (IPD) meta-analysis to better understand heterogeneity in patient outcomes.

James obtained his undergraduate degree in physics at Oxford University before completing a masters in medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and graduate entry medicine at Warwick University (MbChB). He has subsequently been working as a clinician in London and Manchester, during which time he has completed a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene (DTM&H) and spent time investigating novel TB diagnostics in Perú.

Dr Cathrin Hauk joined IDDO’s Medicine Quality Research Group as a research pharmacist in 2022. She coordinates the FORESFA (Forensic epidemiology and impact of substandard and falsified antimicrobials on public health).

Cathrin studied pharmacy and obtained a MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. During her PhD, her research focused on the quality of medicines in low- and middle-income countries and on detection methods for substandard and falsified medicines. She also taught pharmacy students and was involved in organising the course "Pharmacy in Global Health" at the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Tübingen.