Academic interests
- Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- HIV, HBV, HCV and Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Key and Vulnerable Population
- Risk Sexual Behaviors
- Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in Developing Countries
- Esophagial, beast, colorectal and prostate cancer
- Cancer Genetics
- Global Health
- Health System Evaluation in Developing Countries
- Translational/ Implementation Science Studies
Courses taught
- MED1100-Medisinstudiet Module 1- Public Health
- MED5600- Medicine- Module 6 Global Health
- MF9295- Global Health for PhD
- INTHE4117- Global Epidemics
- MF9010E-Introduction Course to the Medical PhD Programme
Education Background
- Post Doctoral Fellowship (University of Oslo, Norway)
- Post Doctoral Fellowship (Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, USA)
- PhD in Epidemiology (University of Oslo, Norway)
- MPhil in International Health (University of Oslo, Norway)
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
Awards
- IAS Injecting Drug Use Annual Research Prize-2019
- Scientia Marie Currie Fellow-2017
- Harvard Global Scholar Fellowship-2012
- Demographic Health Survey Junior faculty Fellowship in Population Health-2011
- European Foundation for Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Fellowship-2010
- Best Final Year Doctor of Medicine Degree Award-Ministry of Health, Tanzania-1999
Partners
- Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania
- University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre, Tanzania
- Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, German
- National AIDS Control Program, Tanzania
- University of California at San Francisco, USA
- University of Whitwatersrand, South Africa