Our Team

Jaline Gerardin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Principal Investigator
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Ifeoma Ozodiegwu, DrPH
Research Assistant Professor
Lead, urban malaria
​Lead, national malaria strategic plan modeling for Nigeria
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Chilochibi Chiziba
Research Assistant, MPH student
​Urban-rural differentials in the determinants of malaria infection in Nigeria
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Ousmane Diallo, MD PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow
Lead, national malaria strategic plan modeling for Guinea
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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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​Letitia Onyango, MS
Research Project Manager
Co-lead, capacity strengthening for malaria analytics and modeling
​Lead, qualitative methods

Ghislaine Ouedraogo-Ametchie, MPP
Qualitative Researcher
Co-lead, capacity strengthening for malaria analytics and modeling

Reese Richardson
PhD student, IBiS (volunteer)
COVID-19 testing, campus modeling, and sentinel surveillance in Chicago
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Sebastian Rodriguez
PhD student, Statistics (with Noelle Samia)
​Impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in programmatic deployment
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Manuela Runge, PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow
​Lead, malaria chemoprevention in infants
Lead, COVID-19 modeling
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Anne Watkins Stahlfeld, MPH
Research Data Analyst Associate
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention and chemoprevention in infants
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Kok Ben Toh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lead, surveillance
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Former team members

Arielle Eagan, 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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Palak Jolly
High school student, team member 2021
Project: Insecticide resistance and bednet strategy

Parveen Dhanoa 
Undergraduate student, team member 2020-21
Project: Scripting support for national malaria strategic plan modeling

Manisha Singam
MPH student, team member 2020-21
Project: ​Age-stratified COVID-19 modeling in Illinois
​Subsequent position: Medical student, University of 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, team member 2019
Project: Data analysis for INDIE trial

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