Our Team

Jaline Gerardin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Principal Investigator
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Ifeoma Ozodiegwu, DrPH
Research Assistant Professor
Principal Investigator
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Ousmane Diallo, MD PhD
​Research Assistant Professor
West Africa projects
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Nicholas S. Adam
Research Assistant
Associations between agricultural occupation and malaria in children, survey data analysis support
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Eniola Bamgboye, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lead, urban malaria epidemiology
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Cedric Bationo, PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow
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Tobias Holden
MD-PhD student, HSIP
​Impact evaluations of malaria interventions targeting infectivity
Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 burden in Illinois
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Colleen Leonard, MPH
​Quantitative Researcher
Lead, urban bednet analysis
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Laurette Mhlanga, PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow
Lead, modeling malaria for urban Nigeria
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​Letitia Onyango, MS
Research Project Manager
​Lead, capacity strengthening for malaria analytics and modeling
Co-lead, program perceptions of using analytics for decision-making
Ghislaine Ouedraogo-Ametchie, MPP
Qualitative Researcher
Lead, evaluations of training programs
​Co-lead, program perceptions of using analytics for decision-making
Manuela Runge, PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow
​Lead, malaria chemoprevention in infants
Lead, COVID-19 modeling
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Anne Stahlfeld, MPH
Research Data Analyst Associate
Lead, Modeling fever and clinical malaria
​Lead, training program development
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Shannon Stanfill, MSc
Program Administrator
AMMnet and NU modeling
Kok Ben Toh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lead, scenario modeling for intervention combinations
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Visiting Scholars

Former Team Members

Irene Huang, MSc
Research Assistant, team member 2022
Project: ​Insecticide resistance management strategies
​Subsequent position: medical student
Reese Richardson
PhD student, IBiS (volunteer), team member 2020-2022
Projects: COVID-19 testing, campus modeling, and sentinel surveillance in Chicago
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Chilochibi Chiziba
Research Assistant, team member 2020-2022
Project: ​Urban-rural differentials in the determinants of malaria infection in Nigeria
​Subsequent position: PhD student, University of Cape Town
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Edgard Dabira, MD PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow, team member 2022
Project: analysis of individual-level malaria incidence from Burkina Faso
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Sebastian Rodriguez
PhD student, Statistics (with Noelle Samia), team member 2019-22
​Projects: Impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in programmatic deployment, trend analysis of routine malaria case data
Subsequent position: Decision Analytics Associate Consultant, ZS​
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Palak Jolly
High school student, Research Science Institute placement 2021
Project: Insecticide resistance and bednet strategy
Arielle Eagan Bell, MSW
Research Project Manager, team member 2020-21
Projects: COVID-19 forecasting and sentinel surveillance costing 
Subsequent position: PhD student, Northwestern University
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Erin Zwick, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, team member 2020-21
Projects: seasonal malaria chemoprevention modeling, cost-effectiveness of malaria interventions
Subsequent position: Senior Scientist, Epistemix
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Parveen Dhanoa 
Undergraduate student, team member 2020-21
Project: Scripting support for national malaria strategic plan modeling
Manisha Singam
MPH student, APEx project 2020-21
Project: ​Age-stratified COVID-19 modeling in Illinois
​Subsequent position: Medical student, University of Illinois at Chicago
Aadrita Nandi, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, team member 2019-20
Project: Modeling Burkina Faso's national malaria strategic plan
​Subsequent position: Postdoc, Kirschner lab, University of Michigan
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Kamaldeen Okuneye, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, team member 2019-20
Project: PKPD modeling of seasonal malaria chemoprevention drugs
Subsequent position: Senior Scientist, Applied BioMath
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Chenye Jiang
Undergraduate student, UROP summer research 2019
Project: Data analysis for INDIE trial

Former Visiting Scholars

Benedicta Mensah, PhD
Visiting Scholar 2022, University of Ghana and Noguchi Institute for Medical Research
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Isaiah Agorinya, PhD
Visiting Scholar 2022, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
Ethel Ngarakana-Gwasira, PhD
Visiting Scholar 2022, University of Zimbabwe
 Steady Mushayabasa, PhD
Visiting Scholar 2022, University of Zimbabwe
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