Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius

Ms Maria Magdalene Namaganda - Participant

Makerere University Data Science Research Training to Strengthen Evidence-Based Health Innovation, Intervention and Policy (PhD Student)

I am a Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Scientist skilled in Genomics and sequence data analysis, currently pursuing a PhD under Makerere University Data Science Research Training Program (MakDARTA). Previously a visiting scholar at the University of California San Francisco at the Institute for Global Health Sciences, IGHS-UCSF. My first degree is Biomedical Laboratory Technology and I hold a Second degree of Master of Science in Bioinformatics, from Makerere University. I am nurturing a career at the forefront of Africa's data revolution, leveraging Genomics and Data Science to solve public health challenges. I am always driven to inspire wholesome and balanced living through my passion projects and content creation.