Prof Goylette Chami

Dr. Chami is an Associate Professor and Robertson Fellow in the Big Data Institute and Nuffield Department of Population Health. Her work combines advanced statistics and machine learning with field epidemiology and parasitology to improve clinical outcomes in East Africa. She leads the Oxford-Uganda Collaboration on Schistosomiasis with the Uganda Ministry of Health. This programme runs the complex and high-dimensional prospective cohort—SchistoTrack—which aims to understand the progression of liver morbidities in the context of intestinal schistosomiasis (Schistosoma mansoni) and endemic coinfections. Dr. Chami holds advisory roles for the World Health Organisation on diagnostics and surveillance for neglected tropical diseases in the cross-cutting disease subgroup. She has been endorsed as an Exceptional Promise Academic by the Royal Society in clinical public health, profiled by Nature for her research contributions to infectious disease epidemiology, and awarded the Odile Bain Memorial Prize for advances in medical parasitology. She previously held fellowships and completed MPhil and PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge.