The AMMnet Advisory Board is made up of experts in malaria, health analytics, and capacity development. They provide strategic guidance to AMMnet’s Board and offer independent evaluation of its performance to help ensure the network’s continued growth and impact.
2025-Present
Dr Victor Alegana is an Epidemiologist at the WHO Regional Office for Africa with Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases (TVD). His expertise includes spatial and spatio-temporal disease modelling and burden estimation, particularly in the areas of tropical and vector-borne diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases, HIV, and neglected tropical diseases. Previously, he served as a Research Fellow at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. He has a strong interest in using data for decision-making and policy development, which encompasses the use of routine health data and the application of spatial statistical data science to address public health issues in Africa. His work includes broad areas of population health, particularly spatial epidemiology (disease burden estimation), healthcare access, the delivery of health interventions, and monitoring Sustainable Development Goals related to vulnerable populations.
2025-Present
Dr Victor Alegana is an Epidemiologist at the WHO Regional Office for Africa with Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases (TVD). His expertise includes spatial and spatio-temporal disease modelling and burden estimation, particularly in the areas of tropical and vector-borne diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases, HIV, and neglected tropical diseases. Previously, he served as a Research Fellow at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. He has a strong interest in using data for decision-making and policy development, which encompasses the use of routine health data and the application of spatial statistical data science to address public health issues in Africa. His work includes broad areas of population health, particularly spatial epidemiology (disease burden estimation), healthcare access, the delivery of health interventions, and monitoring Sustainable Development Goals related to vulnerable populations.
2024-Present
Professor Deirdre Hollingsworth is an infectious disease epidemiologist who uses mathematical models and statistical analyses to study the evolution and transmission dynamics of infectious diseases with the aim of informing the design of more effective control interventions. She joined the Oxford Big Data Institute in 2017, where she leads the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded neglected tropical diseases modelling consortium.
2024-Present
Professor Deirdre Hollingsworth is an infectious disease epidemiologist who uses mathematical models and statistical analyses to study the evolution and transmission dynamics of infectious diseases with the aim of informing the design of more effective control interventions. She joined the Oxford Big Data Institute in 2017, where she leads the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded neglected tropical diseases modelling consortium.
2022-Present
Sheetal SILAL is the Director the Modelling and Simulation Hub, Africa (MASHA) and associate Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Disease Modelling at the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford University.
2022-Present
Sheetal SILAL is the Director the Modelling and Simulation Hub, Africa (MASHA) and associate Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Disease Modelling at the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford University.
Former Advisory Board Members
2024-2025
2024-2025
2024-2025
2024-2025
2022-2025
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