Curriculum Vitae

Nichodemus Amollo

Data & Research Systems Architect · Health and Development Programmes

I own the research data architecture that programmes depend on to make decisions they can defend — study databases, quality governance, analytic pipelines, and the decision products built on top.

Nairobi, Kenya nichodemuswerre@gmail.com +254 725 737 867 LinkedIn
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8+years building research data systems
3countries under one evidence architecture
300household, 12-month diaries panel
6,260participants scored in production

Experience

2025 — Present

Lead Biostatistician and Research Data Manager

Georgetown University gui2de · East Africa

Own the research data architecture and statistical operations for the health systems and implementation portfolio, from instrument design through the decision products partners use.

  • Architected the end-to-end data system for a year-long health financial diaries panel across 300 households, pairing automated high-frequency checks with a live issue-aggregation application so supervisors resolved field problems while collection was still running rather than at cleaning.
  • Built a research assistant performance leaderboard directly on the streaming study database, turning enumerator quality into a metric field leadership manages daily instead of discovering at end of round.
  • Delivered the production application layer for Re:BUiLD cash-plus targeting with IRC, translating causal forest models over 6,260 participants into a caseworker-facing recommender that scores Cash against Cash + Network with cost-aware rationale.
  • Set the analysis and reproducibility standards the team works to across R, Stata, SQL, Power BI, Streamlit, and Shiny, and mentor analysts on the workflows that keep partner deliverables auditable.
2023 — 2025

Senior Statistician and Data Systems Lead

KEMRI · Nairobi and Kisumu

Led the data systems behind multi-year oncology and non-communicable disease surveillance, accountable for registry design, analytic method, and the products that reached county decision-makers.

  • Designed the REDCap registry architecture and multi-language quality control layer that made years of fragmented oncology records analysable, and built the pipelines that kept them current.
  • Established survival, loss-to-follow-up, regression, and forecasting workflows that converted registry records into published evidence on mortality risk and care disparities among patients with and without HIV.
  • Delivered a county-facing cancer surveillance dashboard, launched with Kisumu health leadership, replacing manual reporting cycles with a shared operational view.
2021 — 2023

Senior Research Data Manager and Evaluation Lead

JOOUST and VLIR UOS Regional Programme · Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda

Owned the evidence architecture for a three-country programme, giving distributed partners one set of data structures, definitions, and quality rules.

  • Standardised schemas, variable definitions, and quality protocols across three countries so partner datasets could be pooled and compared rather than reconciled by hand each cycle.
  • Directed the analytic cycle across education and livelihoods portfolios, supporting randomised and quasi-experimental designs from analysis plan through partner-facing reporting.
  • Trained more than 30 enumerators and analysts in reproducible practice, leaving partner institutions able to run the pipelines without external support.

Earlier roles

2017 — 2021

Data Analyst and MEL Specialist — LERIS Hub, Kenya and Uganda. Designed the monitoring architecture — indicator logic, collection workflows, and reporting layer — for health and livelihoods programmes, and built the field quality assurance routines that kept the data defensible under funder scrutiny.

2016 — 2017

Data Systems Analyst — Lake Region Community Development Initiative, Western Kenya. Implemented mobile data collection pipelines and reporting flows, moving community project data off paper into structured, auditable capture.

Core competencies

Research data architecture & engineering

PostgreSQLSQLSchema designETLREDCapGit

Data integrity & quality governance

High-frequency checksAutomated validationMulti-language QCAudit trails

Statistical, causal & ML methods

RStataPythonSurvival analysisForecastingCausal forestQuasi-experimental

Field data & surveillance infrastructure

ODKKoboToolboxSurveyCTOCommCareXLSFormDHIS2 / KHIS

Decision support & evidence translation

ShinyStreamlitPower BITableauQuartoPolicy briefing

Education

2022 — 2026 expected

MSc, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology. Thesis: financial determinants of effective hypertension and diabetes care across seven rural primary health facilities in Kisumu County.

2016

BSc, Statistics (Honours)

University of Nairobi. Second Class Upper Division.

Teaching

2020 — Present

Part-Time Lecturer, Biostatistics and Applied R

JOOUST, Bondo. Supervise students through the full arc of a research question — design, analysis, and interpretation they can defend.

Certifications

M&E in Global Health, UWEconomic Evaluation, UWBiomedical Research Ethics, CITIResearch Methodology, Johns HopkinsAWS Cloud PractitionerGoogle Data AnalyticsAdvanced R, DataCamp

Selected publications

  1. Amollo N W, Ogol J, Museve E, Owenga J A, Aduda D O, Onguru D (2025). Financial determinants of effective hypertension and diabetes care in rural primary health facilities in Kisumu County.
  2. Mangale D I, Adhiambo H, Adagi P A, Nyandieka E, Abente B, Achieng S, Amollo N W, Odeny T A (2025). Characteristics and mortality risk among esophageal cancer patients with varied HIV status seeking care in western Kenya.
  3. Odeny T A, Adhiambo H F, Mangale D I, Were N A, Nyandieka E, Adagi P A, Amollo N W, Atieno D (2025). Survival disparities in cervical cancer patients with and without HIV at JOOTRH.
  4. Ouma O J, Omondi D, Akinyi I, Amollo N W, Ogutu S, Obinge E, van Olmen J (2025). Addressing priority gaps in access and quality of non communicable disease services in primary care settings in rural Kenya.

Languages

English (fluent) · Kiswahili (fluent) · Dholuo (native). Referees available on request.