Core Faculty

Rebecca Borchering, PhD
ICI3D Co-DirectorFaculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics
Postdoctoral researcher, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA

Jonathan Dushoff, PhD
Clinic Director for DAIDD 2022Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics
Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Thumbi Mwangi, PhD
ICI3D Co-DirectorFaculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics
Wellcome Trust Fellow
Center for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute
Paul G Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University


Jim Scott, MPH, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Associate Professor of Statistics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA
Founding Faculty

Steve Bellan, MPH, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

John Hargrove, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Senior Research Fellow
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Gavin Hitchcock, PhD
ICI3D Program Evaluator Assistant Director for Training
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis

Travis Porco, MPH, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics 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

Alex Welte, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Research Professor
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Brian Williams, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Research Fellow
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Workshop Faculty

Larisse Bolton, PhD
Faculty Member, DAIDD clinic Researcher
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Giulio De Leo, PhD
Faculty Member, DAIDD clinic Professor
Department of Earth System Science and Department of Oceans
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Stanford University

Thomas J. Hladish, PhD
Faculty Member, DAIDD clinic Research Scientist
University of Florida

Reshma Kassanjee, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Senior Research Officer
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER)
University of Cape Town

Michael Li, PhD
Faculty Member, DAIDD clinic Senior Scientist
Public Health Risk Science Division
Public Health Agency of Canada

Zinhle Mthombothi, MSc
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Junior Researcher
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Carl Pearson, MSES, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Research Fellow
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom

Bobby Reiner, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Associate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Cari van Schalkwyk, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED and DAIDD clinics Senior Researcher
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Former Faculty

Cara Brook
Faculty Member, DAIDD 2015, MMED 2016 Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology
Univeristy of California - Berkeley, CA, USA

Wim Delva, MD, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED 2010-2012, 2016 Deputy Director for Research
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Faikah Bruce, MSc
Faculty Member, MMED 2015-2016, MMED 2018 PhD candidate, South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Eduard Grebe, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED 2018 Research Associate
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Wilfred Ndifon, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED 2015 Joint AIMS Career Development Research Chair in Quantitative Immunology and Bioinformatics
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-Ghana & AIMS-South Africa)

Calistus Ngonghala, PhD
Faculty Member, MMED 2016-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Eva Ujeneza, MSc
Faculty Member, DAIDD 2016, MMED 2018 PhD candidate, Stellenbosch University and
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis