Dr Nathalie Beloum

Nathalie
Beloum
Dr Nathalie Beloum
Dr
WHO/TDR Fellow on Clinical Research Leadership
Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM)

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.

Dr Juan Hurtado-Zapata

Juan
Hurtado-Zapata
Dr Juan Hurtado-Zapata
Dr
Research theme
WWARN
Visceral leishmaniasis

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.

View his publications on ORCID