Trokon joined the IDDO team in November 2018 as a curator. He has been extensively involved with public health data analysis through his management of the fatalities data during the Ebola crisis in Liberia, and now in his current role as Data Manager for the Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Division of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL).

As Data Manager, he is the contact point for harmonising data across multiple sources and introducing electronic collection mechanisms for field data and is increasingly involved in efforts at interoperability and large-scale data curation. This led to answering critical clinical and public health interventions.

Additionally, to his role at NPHIL, he served as the Deputy Pillar Lead on the Epi-surveillance Pillar for the COVID-19 Emergency Response, where he contributed to the development, digitalization, and deployment of data collection tools, thereby yielding informative reports for decision-makers. His contribution reinforces the need to acquire a TDR Fellowship opportunity. Currently, he is a fellow at IDDO, focusing on COVID-19 and Ebola Virus Disease.

Paul joined IDDO in January 2018 as an EDCTP/TDR fellow from the Clinical Research Unit of Nanora in Burkina Faso. He trained as a molecular parasitologist and is interested in Malaria and other parasitic infectious diseases. Over the past five years, his research focusses on assessing the efficacy of antimalarial drugs, studying the genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum and exploring the molecular markers associated with antimalarial drug resistance. Dr Sondo continues to collaborate with IDDO/WWARN, and is currently the co-lead of WWARN's Malaria Chemoprevention research theme. 

Michael joined IDDO in September 2015 as a WHO/TDR fellow for one year. His is working to develop a pilot data sharing platform for Visceral Leishmaniasis within IDDO. Michael has over 6 years field experience working as a Data Manager in resource constrained settings with Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi Africa) in Nairobi, Kenya and previously with KEMRI/Wellcome Trust research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya. Michael holds a BSc in Computer Technology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and is currently finishing an MSc in Information Technology at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. 

Mahamoud Sama Cherif joined IDDO in December 2017 as an EDCTP/TDR Clinical Research Fellow. He is working on the Ebola data platform, focusing on an analysis of the likelihood of unfavourable outcomes in EVD patients in relation to any characteristics of the patient and any disease-specific or other conditions (such as comorbidities or pregnancy) in order to introduce recommendations for the efficient management of future EVD outbreaks. Following the completion of his fellowship, Cherif now pursues research and teaching as the Clinical Research Manager of the Partnership for Clinical Research in Guinea.

Cherif is a research assistant in the Department of Medicine at the University Gamal Abdel Nasser (GAN) in Conakry. Established as a public body in 1960, the Department of Medicine is devoted to training medical students and conducting research on various diseases including poverty-related diseases in Guinea. Previously, Cherif worked as an assistant professor at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, for over four years. As a result, he gained experience and skills in basic and translational research and published several papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Cherif holds a PhD in Medical Sciences from the School of Biomedical Sciences at Nagasaki University and has paediatrics and MD degrees from the Faculty of Medicine Pharmacy Odonto-Stomatology (FMPOS) at GAN. Cherif’s career goal is to become a clinical researcher able to test new medications (drugs or vaccines), procedures, devices, and/or surveys, in order to look for better and more efficient ways to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious diseases, with the ultimate aim of improving the quality of life infectious disease patients.

Mohammad Sharif Hossain completed his MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Dhaka in 2009. He started his career as a Statistical Officer at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, known as icddr,b from July 2010 and was  promoted to Senior Statistical Officer working on different projects including drug trials, vaccine trials, malaria surveillance, and a G6PD study. His main responsibilities were to: analyse and conduct statistical analysis on the research data; develop different databases and queries to ensure good quality of data; and resolve those queries and issues related to statistical analysis in order to prepare high quality manuscripts and reports by the research team. Sharif joined WWARN in January 2018 as a TDR/WHO research fellow involved in pooled analysis of malaria clinical trials.