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6th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting

  • Odette Dzemo Kibu

    Dr Odette Dzemo Kibu - Travel Awardee

    Harnessing Data Science to Promote Equity in Injury and Surgery for Africa (D-SINE) (Post Doctoral fellow)

    Odette Kibu is a researcher in Public Health with a special research interest in trauma, injury, mental health, and rehabilitative care. She has a strong background in public health, with specific training in epidemiology, quantitative and qualitative research methods, data science, and trauma-related research. As a current postdoctoral research fellow at the Data Science for the study of Surgery, Injury and Equity (D-SINE) Africa at the University of Buea, she has specialized training in data science and methods for trauma research. Through her professional experiences, she has developed and designed research projects that are focused on assessing of the burden of post-traumatic stress disorder and injury disability. Mentored by Dr. Catherine Juillard (UCLA), Prof. Alain Chichom (D-SINE Africa), Dr. Boyce Sabrina (UC,Berkeley), and Prof. Nguefack Georges (D-SINE Africa) and other senior researchers in trauma, she has over 20 publications that cut across injury and trauma, mhealth, digital health and maternal and child health. Before joining the University of Buea, Odette has worked with the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief- sponsored HIV control program at the Clinton Foundation in Cameroon in 2016, where she was focused on HIV testing yields and linkage to treatment. In 2018, she later joined a policy institute as a global health policy analyst and implemented and managed health projects. She has worked in collaboration with other global health researchers in Cameroon and the University of Tennessee, Memphis Odette is a determined, results focused, and self-motivated public health researcher in global health