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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Eniola Bamgboye, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lead, urban malaria epidemiology
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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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Edgard Dabira, MD PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow
Lead, modeling for Burkina Faso
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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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Laurette Mhlanga, PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow
Lead, modeling malaria for urban Nigeria
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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
Modeling fever and clinical malaria
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Kok Ben Toh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lead, surveillance
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Visiting scholars and short-term trainees

Isaiah Agorinya, PhD
Visiting Scholar, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
Ethel Ngarakana-Gwasira, PhD
Visiting Scholar, University of Zimbabwe
Steady Mushayabasa, PhD
Visiting Scholar, University of Zimbabwe

Former team members, visitors, and trainees

Irene Huang
Visiting MSc student, Global Health Modeling (Oxford) 2022
Palak Jolly
High school student, Research Science Institute placement 2021
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
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