Individuals

Position:Professor

Data projects involved: 2

Matthew Mendelsohn is a Canadian public policy expert and public sector executive, best known for leading Prime Minister’s Justin Trudeau’s Results & Delivery Unit and the Government of Canada’s Impact & Innovation Unit from 2016-2020. These followed his role as a chief architect of the Liberals’ 2015 election platform and serving as a member of incoming Prime Minister Trudeau’s transition team, helping with cabinet selection and penning open and public Ministerial mandate letters.

Data projects involved: 1

Innocent B. Mboya (Ph.D.) is a Senior Technical Advisor and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Africa Academy for Public Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He finished his postdoctoral researcher position in register-based epidemiology at the Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. He is also a Lecturer at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Institute of Public Health, Moshi, Tanzania. Innocent has accumulated over ten years of combined experience as a researcher, project coordinator, and trainer. His experience ranges from public health, epidemiology and applied biostatistics, data quality assurance, monitoring vaccine uptake and coverage (e.g., COVID-19 and childhood vaccines in Tanzania), maternal and child health (investigating predictors of adverse pregnancy outcomes), nutritional status of mothers and children, non-communicable diseases (e.g., surveys on HPV screening for cervical cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and mental health screening), monitoring HIV infection in key populations, sexual and reproductive health, and healthcare provider workload. He is experienced in coordinating and conducting community-based surveys, community engagement, and project monitoring and evaluation at local and national levels. With a background in epidemiology and applied biostatistics, he possesses diverse data management and analysis skills using Stata, SPSS, and R software. He has authored several scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and abstracts presented at national and international conferences, demonstrating his track record in scientific writing.

Data projects involved: 1

Manisha Shah is a development economist whose primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health, and development. She originally received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She has written several papers on the economics of sex markets in order to learn how more effective policies and programs can be deployed to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. She also works in the area of child health and education. Shah has been the PI on various impact evaluations and randomized controlled trials and is currently leading projects in Tanzania, Indonesia, and India. She has also worked extensively in Ecuador and Mexico. Her research has been supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the World Bank, and the National Science Foundation, among others. She is an editor at Journal of Health Economics and an Associate Editor at The Review of Economics and Statistics.