MMED 2025 Instructional Team
Reshma Kassanjee, PhD
Director Senior Research Officer
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER)
University of Cape Town
Seth Blumberg, MD, PhD
Faculty Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Divisions of Hospital Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Francis I. Proctor Institute
University of California – San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Jonathan Dushoff, PhD
Faculty Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Zinhle Mthombothi, MSc
MMED Fundamentals Lecturer Junior Researcher
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mutono Nyamai, PhD
Faculty Postdoctoral Scientist
Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
University of Nairobi
Carl Pearson, MSES, PhD
Faculty Research Fellow
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom
Travis Porco, MPH, PhD
Faculty Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Department of Ophthalmology
Francis I Proctor Institute for Research in Ophthalmology
University of California – San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Cari van Schalkwyk, PhD
Faculty Senior Researcher
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mentors and Faculty Observer
Jeremy Bingham, MSc
Mentor Junior Researcher
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Joe Challenger, PhD
Faculty Observer, MMED 2025 Research Fellow
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Stanley Sayianka
Mentor Research Scientist
Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Nairobi
Program Evaluator
Faikah Bruce, MSc
ICI3D Program Evaluator Training Coordinator
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa