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6th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting

  • Natasha Lalloo

    Dr Natasha Lalloo - Speaker

    Developing data science solutions to mitigate the health impacts of climate change in Africa: the HE2AT Center (Researcher)

    Natasha Lalloo is a medical doctor from South Africa, passionate about public health, planetary health, and environmental epidemiology. She has a master of science in public health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and has experience working in urban, rural, public and private hospital settings across South Africa, as well as experience working in clinical trials and internationally funded public health and environmental health projects. She has a wide array of professional skills and experience including statistics (coding and analysis in Stata and R), epidemiology, coding in Python, policy (briefs, reports, analysis), intervention monitoring and evaluation, designing research studies and grant proposals, GIS skills, and quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. She is currently serving as a research clinician at Wits Planetary Health Research. Her primary focus is data harmonisation, alongside other project work within the HE2AT Center, working with data from sub-Saharan Africa to answer climate and health questions. Spending much of her free time outdoors, Natasha's deep connection with nature inspired her environmentalism and transition from clinical medicine to planetary health.