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 Nifarta Peingurta Andrew - Participant

INFORM: Role of Data Streams In Informing Infection Dynamics in Africa (DMAC Lead/Member)

Nifarta Andrew Peingurta is an experienced monitoring and evaluation specialist and public health data scientist. She currently leads the data unit that supports all research projects in IRCE, including a member of the DMAC on INFORM Africa; an NIH funded project led by Professor Alash'le Abimiku. Her research focuses on the application of statistical methods for the analysis of public health outcomes and their social determinants; with the hope of translating scientific research findings into policy and patient education programs to change patient behavior, promote self-advocacy and improve health-seeking behavior and outcomes. She holds a PhD in educational policy from university of Korinthos, Greece, MSc and BSc in biostatistics from the universities of Ibadan and Maiduguri respectively. She completed a certificate course in Epidemiology from the European Education Programme in Epidemiology (EEPE) in Florence, Italy and MPH degree in Public Health from Texila American University, Zambian Campus. She is a WHO TDR fellow, trained on clinical data management and statistical modelling at the Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg. She is passionate about mentoring in clinical data management, monitoring and evaluation, statistical analysis and scientific writing.