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<h1 class="section-h" style="font-size:clamp(2.4rem,4vw,3.6rem);margin-top:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0;">From the field<br>to the boardroom.</h1>
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My name is **Nichodemus Amollo**. I grew up near Lake Victoria in Homa Bay, Western Kenya, where I learned to pay attention — to the weather, to the lake, to what people say and what they don't. That instinct has served me well in data work.
I started at **KEMRI** managing oncology data. It taught me something that no methods course quite captures: data quality is a moral act. Every row is a person waiting for a diagnosis. That sense of responsibility has traveled with me into every job since.
Over eight years I have worked across the full research lifecycle — designing digital survey tools for communities without internet, building the SQL databases that receive the data, leading field teams of 50+ across three countries, and delivering the reports and dashboards that move funders and governments. I currently work with **Georgetown University gui2de** on health financial diaries and impact evaluations. I am also a part-time lecturer in Biostatistics at JOOUST and a candidate for an MSc in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
What makes me useful is that I can operate at both ends. I can sit with a community health worker and explain why data completeness matters. Then walk into a boardroom and present the findings. That translation — between the field and the funder — is where I work best.
Outside of data: I keep goats and tend a kitchen garden in Homa Bay. There is something honest about agriculture — it keeps development work grounded in reality. I also love football, running, and long conversations over tea that go further than they were supposed to.
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<p style="font-size:0.78rem;color:var(--muted);margin:0;">Georgetown University gui2de · Remote</p>
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<p style="font-size:0.88rem;font-weight:500;color:var(--ink);margin:0 0 0.1rem;">MSc Candidate — Biostatistics & Epidemiology</p>
<p style="font-size:0.78rem;color:var(--muted);margin:0;">JOOUST · Final thesis stage · Expected graduation Dec 2026</p>
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<p style="font-size:0.88rem;font-weight:500;color:var(--ink);margin:0 0 0.1rem;">Part-Time Lecturer — Biostatistics</p>
<p style="font-size:0.78rem;color:var(--muted);margin:0;">JOOUST</p>
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<p style="font-size:0.65rem;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.12em;text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--muted);margin-bottom:0.9rem;">At a Glance</p>
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<div>📍 Nairobi, Kenya. Open to remote and on-site.</div>
<div>🗣️ English, Kiswahili, Dholuo</div>
<div>🏛️ NGO · Corporate · Research · Government</div>
<div>🎓 MSc Thesis: NCD financing, Kisumu County</div>
<div>📝 First-author paper forthcoming in BMC Public Health</div>
<div>📚 Co-authored publications in oncology and epidemiology</div>
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<p style="font-size:0.65rem;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.12em;text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--muted);margin-bottom:0.9rem;">Outside Work</p>
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<div>🐐 Goat farming — Homa Bay County</div>
<div>⚽ Football — watching and playing</div>
<div>🏃 Running & fitness</div>
<div>📚 Agricultural economics & development</div>
<div>🌍 Open governance & civic data</div>
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## What drives the work
I believe data has a side — it either serves the people it was collected from, or it serves the institutions that collected it. My goal is always the former.
That shows up in how I approach M&E: not as a compliance checklist, but as a learning system. It shows up in how I train enumerators: I want them to understand why the question is structured the way it is, not just how to tap the screen. And it shows up in how I write reports: I want to change a decision, not demonstrate that I can run a regression.
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## Research interests
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<h4>Health financing and governance</h4>
<p>Facility decision space, reimbursement delays, and how devolved systems translate policy into actual care.</p>
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<h4>NCDs in primary care</h4>
<p>Hypertension and diabetes management, medicine continuity, and service delivery quality in rural settings.</p>
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<h4>Mixed-methods research</h4>
<p>Using records, interviews, and operational data together to explain not just what failed, but why.</p>
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<h4>Implementation and community pathways</h4>
<p>Designing practical interventions that fit community realities rather than importing solutions unchanged.</p>
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## Skills & Tools
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<p class="skill-group-title">Analytics & Stats</p>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">R</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:92%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">STATA</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:88%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">Python</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:78%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">SPSS</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:82%"></div></div></div>
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<p class="skill-group-title">Data & Databases</p>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">SQL</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:85%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">PostgreSQL</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:70%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">DHIS2/KHIS</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:82%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">Excel</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:95%"></div></div></div>
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<p class="skill-group-title">Data Collection</p>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">KoboToolbox</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:95%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">ODK</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:92%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">REDCap</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:78%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">SurveyCTO</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:75%"></div></div></div>
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<p class="skill-group-title">BI & Reporting</p>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">Power BI</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:85%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">R Markdown</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:92%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">Quarto</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:80%"></div></div></div>
<div class="skill-item"><span class="skill-name">Tableau</span><div class="skill-bar-wrap"><div class="skill-bar" style="width:65%"></div></div></div>
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---
## A few highlights
- Built real-time high-frequency check (HFC) systems in R and Stata across multi-country RCTs, catching data errors before they compound.
- Managed a field team of 50+ enumerators across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, including remote coordination through the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Designed and digitised the M&E framework for a 1,535-site health programme: XLSForm coding through DHIS2 integration.
- First-author paper forthcoming in *BMC Public Health* on financing constraints and chronic NCD care in rural Kisumu.
- Co-authored oncology and epidemiology publications from KEMRI and university collaborations.
- Identified procurement inefficiencies that saved an estimated KES 20M+ through analysis alone.
[View full CV →](../cv/index.qmd){.btn-solid style="margin-top:1.5rem;display:inline-block;"}
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## Services {#services}
What I offer as a consultant, collaborator, or embedded team member:
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<h4 class="svc-title">Study Design & Protocol Development</h4>
<p class="svc-body">Research question formulation, sampling strategy, ethical submissions, instrument design (quantitative & qualitative). IRB-ready protocols for health, agriculture, and finance programmes.</p>
<div class="svc-tags"><span>M&E</span><span>RCT</span><span>Mixed methods</span><span>XLSForm</span></div>
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<span class="svc-icon">🗄️</span>
<h4 class="svc-title">Data Management & Engineering</h4>
<p class="svc-body">Database architecture, HFC systems, automated cleaning pipelines in R and Python. Reproducible data workflows that teams can hand off without losing institutional knowledge.</p>
<div class="svc-tags"><span>R</span><span>SQL</span><span>Python</span><span>PostgreSQL</span></div>
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<span class="svc-icon">📊</span>
<h4 class="svc-title">Analytics & Impact Evaluation</h4>
<p class="svc-body">Descriptive to advanced econometrics — regression, DiD, RDD, survival analysis. Telling the story behind the numbers for funder reports, policy briefs, and publications.</p>
<div class="svc-tags"><span>Stata</span><span>R</span><span>Regression</span><span>DiD</span></div>
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<span class="svc-icon">🖥️</span>
<h4 class="svc-title">Dashboards & Reporting</h4>
<p class="svc-body">Automated dashboards in Power BI, R Shiny, and Quarto. From operational monitoring dashboards for field programmes to donor-facing KPI reports updated on a schedule.</p>
<div class="svc-tags"><span>Power BI</span><span>R Shiny</span><span>Quarto</span><span>Tableau</span></div>
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<span class="svc-icon">🌍</span>
<h4 class="svc-title">Field Data Collection</h4>
<p class="svc-body">End-to-end management of CAPI surveys — tool building in KoboToolbox / ODK, enumerator recruitment and training, daily HFC, and data transmission to headquarters.</p>
<div class="svc-tags"><span>KoboToolbox</span><span>ODK</span><span>REDCap</span><span>CommCare</span></div>
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<span class="svc-icon">🎓</span>
<h4 class="svc-title">Training & Capacity Building</h4>
<p class="svc-body">Workshops in R, Stata, survey design, data management, and M&E frameworks. I have trained teams ranging from government statisticians to community health workers.</p>
<div class="svc-tags"><span>R workshops</span><span>Stata</span><span>M&E training</span></div>
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[Get in touch about a project →](mailto:nichodemuswerre@gmail.com){.btn-solid style="margin-top:2rem;display:inline-block;"}
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## Open to
Senior M&E and Research Data Manager roles, data analytics consulting across supply chain, health, agriculture, finance and real estate, research partnerships in health financing and agricultural economics, and training and capacity building in R, Stata, survey design, and data management.
[Get in touch →](mailto:nichodemuswerre@gmail.com){.btn-solid}