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

Prof Ann Mwangi - Participant

NYU-Moi Data Science for Social Determinants Training Program (Co-PI)

Ann Wanjiru Mwangi holds a PhD in Biostatistics from Brown University, USA, masters' degrees (Biostatistics and Applied Statistics) from Hasselt University, Belgium and Bsc from JKUAT, Kenya. She is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Dean in charge of Research and Innovation, Moi University Kenya. She is involved in training and supervising undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Science and College of Health Sciences. She has been a Biostatistician for the Academic Model Providing Access to Health Care (AMPATH) program for the last 18 years during which several papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests are in Data Science, Causal Inference, methods for addressing bias when using observational data in resource limited settings in HIV & AIDS, Chronic Diseases among others. She is a Co-Investigator on several funded grants, including a D43 & DSI training grant, an R01 to optimize HIV treatment and R01 on Data Science for Clinical decision support that aims to utilize big data to develop a clinical decision support to improve retention and viral suppression in western Kenya among others within AMPATH. She has extensive experience in Quantitative Research Methods, Grant writing, Manuscript writing and Data Analysis.