Prof. Samuel Iddi
About
Prof. Samuel Iddi is a trained and experienced biomedical scientist, a biostatistician, and a data scientist with a rich research portfolio underpinned by cutting-edge statistical/methodological research and the application of innovative research techniques to advance public health and biomedical research. He has over 10 years of teaching experience at higher learning institutions, supervised Ph.D., MPhil, and MSc theses, and has published over 50 scientific papers in recognized research outlets. Prof. Iddi has worked on several projects in Ghana and Kenya, including the Advanced Newborn Care project in Ghana and the Making Data Systems Work for Evidence-informed Policy-making (EIP) project in Kenya. He was part of the Ghana Health Service task team that conducted facility-level data analysis of routine WASH structures and indicators, essential health service data, and community scorecards, extracted from the Ghana District Health Information Management System (DHIMS), a WHO-funded project, and also part of the Countdown 2030 team in Ghana. He is a talented programmer with considerable experience in programming languages such as R, SAS, IML, MATLAB, SQL, etc., for the development of computer programs to implement novel statistical methodologies, and handling very large and complex datasets such as the DHS, Census data across multiple countries, the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, and the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative datasets. He is proficient in creating and deploying dashboards for data visualization using RShiny, generating dynamic reports, tables, and complex graphs with R Knitr and Markdown, and creating macros/scripts to increase the quality and efficiency with which results are produced. Prof. Iddi has collaborated with statisticians and public health experts, epidemiologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, and medical practitioners.
Education
- PhD Biomedical Sciences (Biostatistics specialization), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- MSc. Statistics (Biostatistics), Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
- BSc. Mathematics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana.