About Us

The DSSD Training Program is a collaboration between New York University, The NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Moi University, and Brown University that is funded by the National Institutes of Health

A broader network of academic, industrial and non-governmental organizations (see below to learn more), opens a wide pool of potential, strong trainees from both data science and health backgrounds.

Stakeholders and Partners

Program Leadership

Rumi Chunara, PhD, ScM

Program Co-Director (MPI) - NYU

Ann Mwangi, PhD

Program Co-Director (MPI) - Moi

Rajesh Vedanthan, MD, MPH

Program Co-Director (MPI) - NYU

Joseph Hogan, ScD, MS

Program Co-Director (MPI) - Brown

Judy Mangeni, PhD

Key Investigator - Moi

Jessica Gjonaj, BA

Program Coordinator - NYU

Eileen Immaculee, BBM, MS

Program Coordinator (IBM/Moi)

Iris Wagna, BSc.N, MPH

Program Coordinator (AMPATH/Moi)

Internal Advisory Board

Olugbenda G. Ogedegbe, MD, MPH

Director - Institute for Excellence in Health Equity (NYU)

Rebecca Betensky, ScD

Professor and Chair - Department of Biostatistics at NYU School of Global Public Health

Julia Kempe, PhD

Director - Center for Data Science (NYU)

Winstone Nyandiko, MBChB, MMED, MPH

Associate Professor - Child Health and Pediatrics (Moi)

Training Advisory Board

Ana Mocumbi, MD, PhD

Associate Professor - Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) & Affiliate Professor - University of Washington

Amos Laar, PhD

Associate Professor - Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the University of Ghana

Boniface Akuku, PhD

Assistant Director - ICT at the Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization

Zulfiqar Bhutta, MBBS

Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Health - Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada)