Emmanuelle Dankwa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Departments
Department of Epidemiology
Other Positions
Proctor; Pre-Concentration Advisor
Residential Life, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Biography
Emmanuelle Dankwa, DPhil, is an infectious disease epidemiologist specialising in transmission modeling and analytics capacity strengthening. She completed her doctoral training in Statistics at the University of Oxford. At the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Emmanuelle works on quantifying the direct and indirect impacts of migration on malaria transmission in Panama's Darién region. Additionally, she has worked on tuberculosis modeling to evaluate the impact of contact tracing and preventive therapy interventions against the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
On analytics capacity strengthening, Emmanuelle has been involved in various related efforts in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). She recently led a team to update the evidence on the use of data and analytics for health sector priority setting in LMICs with a detailed case study for Ghana. Additionally, she was an instructor for the UGHE (University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda)/Harvard training course in mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission which trained public health leaders from Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda to competently use data to respond to emerging disease threats in their contexts.
Emmanuelle teaches graduate courses in transmission modeling at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Education and Training
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DPhil, Statistical Science
University of Oxford -
BSc, Mathematics and Statistics
University of Ghana
Awards and Honors
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Social Justice in Infectious Disease Travel Award, 2022
Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference -
Graduate Studentship, 2021 - 2022
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford -
Warden’s Discretionary Fund Award, 2021
Rhodes Trust -
Warden’s Discretionary Fund Award, 2019
Rhodes Trust -
St. Peter’s College Foundation Graduate Award, 2019 - 2020
St Peter's College, University of Oxford -
Professor F.T Sai Prize for the Best Graduating Female Student in B.Sc. Mathematics , 2018
University of Ghana -
Professor F.T Sai Prize for the Best Graduating Female Student in B.Sc. Statistics, 2018
University of Ghana -
Rhodes Scholarship, 2018 - 2021
Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford -
Beige Capital Youth Excellence League Award for academic excellence in Statistics, 2017
Beige Capital, Ghana -
Professor F.T Sai Prize for Best Female Student in Mathematical Sciences, 2016
University of Ghana