Dr. Chifundo Kanjala

Dr Chifundo Kanjala is the MEIRU data documentalist. He is responsible for facilitating data discovery, access and (re)use for MEIRU researchers and collaborators. Currently he is overseeing the development of an internal data repository, building an online catalogue of MEIRU data, contributing to the MEIRU data management strategy, and coordinating an international technical working group for MEIRU open data.

Chifundo also has technical team coordination and metadata development roles in INSPIRE and ALPHA respectively. MEIRU is a founding member of these two networks.

Prior to joining MEIRU, he worked in a social policy analysis role at UNICEF and in population health researcher and data/ metadata management roles in Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems and their collaborations for almost a decade.

Chifundo holds a BSc honours degree in Statistics, an MPhil in Demography from University of Cape Town and a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.

Chifundo has research experience in the areas of HIV mortality and Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) data stewardship.