Data for Health in Africa Meeting
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5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
23 - 29 August 2025
CEDI Centre, University of Ghana, Accra

Dr Rosemary Mckaig - Participant

INFORM: Role of Data Streams In Informing Infection Dynamics in Africa (NIH Staff)

Rosemary McKaig is a Program Officer and Epidemiologist who has worked in the Epidemiology Branch within the Division of AIDS for twenty years. She received her bachelor and doctoral degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and her MPH from Emory University. Dr. McKaig has a history of research in oral epidemiology and in community based social-behavioral research as well as epidemiology methods. In DAIDS, Dr. McKaig oversees a portfolio of career awards and investigator-initiated grants as well as cooperative agreements, most of which are focused on novel analytic methods incorporating data collection, organization, harmonization, and analyses in longitudinal HIV research. Dr. McKaig serves as the Project Scientist for the North America and West Africa regions of the International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA). She is the Program Officer for the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS), a national longitudinal cohort of HIV/AIDS that informs long term effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy and clinical outcomes along the HIV treatment cascade. Dr. McKaig is most recently interested in the use of very large (Big) data to address gaps in effectively preventing and treating HIV. She is the Project Scientist for the Informing Infection Dynamics in Africa (INFORM) Research in DS-I Africa.