AMINA SULEIMAN MSENGWA
Statistician - Statistics at University of Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam , Tanzania
- Subjects:
- Education
- Spoken languages:
- English, Swahili
- Status:
- Looking for a mentor and open to collaboration.
- Support Level:
- Long-term mentoring and support
- Support Needed:
- Article planning, Book planning, Dealing with the publishing process, Medium/heavy editing, Presentation planning, Proposal development, Publication ethics, Responding to peer review, Statistics, Study design, Table and figure design, Career mentoring, Data analysis
Work
- Subjects:
- Education
- Research Keywords:
- Biostatistics, Spatial Analysis, Epidemiology
- Collaboration interests:
- Biostatistics, analytical tools
- Biography:
- A university graduate from the University of Dar es Salaam. I studied Statistics and completed Bachelor degree in 2000, Masters in 2002 and PhD. In 2010. During my PhD program, I worked with the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umea University and Swiss Tropical Instituted, Basil University. I worked with Joint Malaria Program in Tanzania as a data manager/statistician, and then joined with the University of Dar es Salaam, held the post of assistant lecturer as well as Lecturer. I was also worked with the Malaria Control and Partnership in Africa as a Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, where I was attached to the National Malaria Control program to provide technical support in development M&E tool; transfer knowledge and capacity around monitoring and evaluating within integrated health systems approaches; facilitate utilization of data to inform policy advocacy strategy on malaria, including the mobilization and allocation of national and international resources; and M&E baseline, monitoring and end-line surveys/assessments and analysis of results. Currently, I am teaching statistical courses and doing research. My interests lie in infectious diseases epidemiology and Modeling. Focused on Spatial and temporal analysis of malaria transmission, HIV/AIDS and population studies in small and large settings. I am also concerned with Surveillance, Monitoring, and Evaluation. Published and unpublished: Sabine Renggli, Renata Mandike, Karen Kramer, Faith Patrick, Nick J Brown, Peter D McElroy, Wilhelmina Rimisho, Amina Msengwa, Ally Mnzava, Rose Nathan, Romanus Mtung’e, Rita Mgullo,Jane Lweikiza and Christian Lengeler (2013). Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a National Campaign to Deliver 18 million free Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets to Uncovered Sleeping Spaces in Tanzania. Malaria Journal 2013, 12:85 Gosoniu L, Msengwa A, Lengeler C, Vounatsou P (2012). Spatially Explicit Burden Estimates of Malaria in Tanzania: Bayesian Geostatistical Modeling of the Malaria Indicator Survey Data. PLoS ONE 7(5): e23966. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023966 Msengwa, A (2010) Statistical Modelling and Analysis of Malaria risk and child Mortality in Tanzania. PhD Thesis, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Msengwa, A (2002) Econometric Analysis of Coffee Supply in Tanzania. Master of Arts Dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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