Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024

Dr Gabriel Kallah-Dagadu - Travel Awardee

Research Training on Harnessing Data Science for Global Health Priorities in Africa (Post Doc)

Gabriel Kallah-Dagadu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Ghana and currently a WASHA Takwimu Postdoctoral fellow in Health Data Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (host), and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, USA, partner with Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Germany.
He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Cape Coast and an MPhil in Statistics from the University of Ghana. Gabriel joined the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science as a faculty member in September 2014 and has excellent experience supervising and teaching Statistics, Probability, and Data Science at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests are centred on applied probability, computational statistics, and machine learning with real-life applications to genome sequencing, climate change, nutrition, and health outcomes. Gabriel has published several peer-reviewed articles in both local and international journals of high repute in the areas of statistics, probability, data science and public health.