Webinar 4: Collaboration for Emergency Response

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Speakers



 

Armand Bejtullahu

Technical officer, World Health Organization (WHO)

Technical officer in the GOARN Operational Support Team, providing support to GOARN Operations and Programme management.

Marie-Amelie Degail Chabrat

Senior Epidemiologist, World Health Organization (WHO)

Marie-Amelie Degail Chabrat is a field epidemiologist with experience in European National Public Health institutes, in INGOs both in the field and at headquarters (Médecins du Monde, Aide Médicale Internationale, Médecins Sans Frontieres, Epicentre) and with WHO. She holds an MPH from the Institut de Santé Publique et de Développement (ISPED), a Masters degree in Health Geography and a Masters degree in Management of Humanitarian Crises. Marie-Amelie completed the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) in the Health protection Agency, UK, in 2011 (cohort 15). She has worked on Global Health, Epidemic Intelligence and outbreak preparedness and response as well as research during cholera, measles, poliomyelitis, and Ebola outbreaks, and on Antibiotic resistance in humanitarian settings. Outside of Europe, she has worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for over 3 years, in Lebanon for 7 months, in Haiti and in Guinea on several missions, as well as in New York, USA. In February 2019, Marie-Amelie joined the Field Epidemiology Support team as Epidemiologist in the WHO Health Emergencies department and is acting team Lead of the Acute Response Monitoring team. She is a core team member of the Integrated Outbreak Analytics (IOA) Network and the IOA focal point for WHO.

Esther Van Kleef

Senior Epidemiologist, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM)

Dr. Esther Van Kleef (ITM) is a senior epidemiologist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, with expertise in quantitative methodology including infectious disease modelling, and handling of surveillance data. Her over 10 years of research and public health expertise largely concern understanding the transmission-dynamics of pathogens and effectiveness of interventions, with a keen interest in antimicrobial resistance. Esther has completed a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2015. This was followed by postdoctoral positions at Oxford University (Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand) and Public Health England. Prior to ITM, she worked as an epidemiologist at the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, where she coordinated AMR research and ten consultant epidemiologists working on AMR at a regional level. In 2019-2020, she has been involved as a WHO consultant in the 10th outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, implementing data science in outbreak related decision-making (outbreak analytics) with an interdisciplinary focus. In her current position, she is involved in research aiming to improve the detection, monitoring and assessment of infectious disease emergence from a data science context, working with national and international public health and veterinary health institutes.

Miguel Luengo Oroz

Chief Data Scientist, United Nations Global Pulse

 

 

Katherine Hoffmann Pham

AI Researcher, United Nations Global Pulse

Katherine Hoffmann Pham is an AI researcher at UN Global Pulse interested in how big data, machine learning, and technology can be used to address policy problems. Her research has studied the use of artificial intelligence to better understand migrant and refugee movements; the potential of new data sources to measure demographics in the developing world; and the impact of ridesharing and micro-mobility platforms in urban settings. She completed her PhD in Information Systems at NYU's Stern School of Business, as well as a BA/MA at Stanford University. In between, she spent four years working on randomized controlled trials with Innovations for Poverty Action.


 

 

Jessica Kolmer

Project Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)

Jessica Kolmer is a Project Officer for the Acute Events Management Team in the WHO HQ Health Emergencies Programme and currently works within the COVID-19 Incident Management Support Team. She has a background in medical social work and holds a Masters of Science of Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin.

Martina McMenamin

Consultant - Data Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)

Martina is currently a consultant in the WHO HQ COVID-19 Analytics team. She has a background in Biostatistics and is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The University of Hong Kong working on vaccine effectiveness evaluation.