Cindy was a WHO/TDR Clinical Research Leadership Fellow at Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, University of Oxford. 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. Their main concern is the antimicrobial resistance and triple elimination eradication program conducted by the Indonesian government for all pregnant women. It consists of Hepatitis B, HIV, and syphilis. Moreover, other endemic diseases in their country become their concern, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and DHF. 

Dawit Getachew Assefa holds a Master of Science in Clinical Trials from Addis Ababa University and serves as 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.

In 2024, Dawit was awarded the WHO/TDR Postgraduate Research Fellowship at the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO), and WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), University of Oxford, where he led an epidemiological study on visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil using national surveillance data. He is also 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.

Prior to joining IDDO in Feb-2022 for my WHO/TDR fellowship, I 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). At that post, I 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, I contributed to the establishment of data management system at my home Institution. I provide statistical support to the research projects at Congolese foundation for Medical Research.

At IDDO, I am looking to further my training on biostatistics and enhance my 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).

Currently, he works as 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. Over the past five years, 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 is looking forward to learn and develop broader skills on biostatistics, clinical research data management, and design and conduct of systematic reviews.

Daniel Yilma is academician and a practicing Internal Medicine physician in Jimma University Medical Center (JUMC). He obtained his PhD in University of Copenhagen. He established clinical trial unit at JUMC and conducts infectious disease research mainly on HIV, Tuberculosis, COVID-19 and malaria . Daniel joined IDDO/WWARN as a WHO/TDR fellow  and continued his research as a University of Cape Town (UCT) post-doctoral fellow within the Southern African Centre of IDDO based at the UCT Collaborating Centre for Optimising Antimalarial Therapy. He serves as member of malaria case management team at national level. He continues to work with WWARN and other collaborators to find safe, effective and simplified malaria treatment and diagnostic tools.

Dr Clifford George Banda is a Clinical Research Fellow working with the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, the College of Medicine in Malawi and WWARN 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 is currently completing his specialist training in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Cape Town. Prior to this, he was a TDR Fellow within WWARN and worked on formulating the Malaria Clinical Trials Toolkit.

Amadou joined IDDO as a Fellow supported by the Clinical Research and Development (CRDF) and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) hosted at the World Health Organization (WHO).

A Disease Surveillance Officer with The Gambia Ministry of Health, he is working with IDDO's schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases theme for a 12-month training programme and is based at The Royal Veterinary College, University of London.

During the programme he will focus on developing skills in data management, research and biostatistical analysis, and infectious disease modelling using R, as well as systematic review training and other activities integral to work at IDDO. 

Dr Kwame Oneill is the District Medical Officer in the Koinadugu and Falaba Districts in the Northern Region of Sierra Leone. As the Co-chair of the District Health Management Team he coordinates all health activities in the Districts including but not limited to monthly management meetings and partners coordinating forum. He oversees the district expanded programme on immunisation, nutrition, HIV/AIDs, TB/leprosy and malaria.

Dr Oneill was privileged to serve as the Health Systems Manager and Manager for the comprehensive programme for Ebola survivors, two positions he held simultaneously in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. In this capacity, he coordinated multiple facets of country health programme which involved financial management, health financing, monitoring and evaluation, priority setting health information and research.

With a keen interest in research, he was part of the Viral persistence study on Ebola survivors, project shield – a test of viral persistence in male survivors, and PREEMPT a longitudinal study of LASSA fever.

Dr Oneill holds a Bsc in Biochemistry and MBChB from the University of Sierra Leone, an MSc in International Health from the University of Parma, Italy, and a diploma in Health System Management from Japan.

Currently, Dr Oneill is a TDR/WHO fellow placed with IDDO Oxford working on viral hemorrhagic fever with special interest in Ebola Virus Disease.

Sauman joined IDDO in May 2019 as a WHO/TDR Clinical Research Fellow and is working on visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and scrub typhus. His research interests include pharmaceutical markets, alternative models of drug development and access to medicine.

Sauman holds an engineering degree in biotechnology, and two master’s degrees; one in public health and the second in economic policy. He has recently finished his PhD in economics, which focused on the access to essential medicines in Africa by analysing the market entry and operation strategies of Indian pharmaceutical firms.