Dennis Kalibbala
I am statistician with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Statistics. My interest in medical statistics made it easy for me to decide without hesitation to pursue a master’s degree in clinical Epidemiology and biostatistics at Makerere University.Currently, I work with Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University (MUJHU) Research Collaboration as a Data Manager of a hospital birth defects surveillance program in Kampala, Uganda. This position has enabled me acquire comprehensive knowledge about managing big datasets while applying principles of epidemiology and biostatistics. The position advanced my analysis skills with STATA, ODK, REDCap and learning of R and Python.
My experience with managing big datasets make me feel I have reached a point where I now want to use big datasets to predict future disease occurrence and events. Therefore, my long term research interests involve use of machine-learning techniques to solve public health problems. I am now aiming to pursue a PhD in Health Data science or Biostatistics.
My goal is to become an independent researcher and publish many articles. I have taken several trainings in scientific writing and currently 3 articles under review in a journal where am a co-author. I am also publishing my master’s research in the next few months as a first author.