Dr Kandala Ngianga-Bakwin

Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala

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Health Sciences
Room A120
University of Warwick
Warwick Medical School
Health Sciences Research Institute
Coventry
CV4 7 AL 		Tel: +44(0)2476150541
Email: N-B.Kandala@warwick.ac.uk
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RESEARCH PROFILE


Principal Research Fellow in Health Technology Assessment: With a background in Medical Statistics and Demography, Kandala's area of research interest is statistical modelling, especially Multivariate Statistics, Generalized Linear Models, Analysis of Discrete Data and State Space Models for Longitudinal and Spatial Data, focusing mainly on the influence of environmental factors on health in diverse population. His current research interests include statistical methods applied to epidemiology, survival analysis meta-analysis and Bayesian Analysis.

BACKGROUND


Kandala Ngianga-Bakwin joined the University of Warwick since 2006 as a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Statistics. His main priority is to develop high quality statistical support to a number of research programmes within Warwick Medical School and develop independent areas of research that complement the existing research activities of the school. Prior to joining Warwick, he worked as a Medical Statistician at King's College London as well as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. Kandala previously worked with the University of Montreal, Canada (Mellon training fellowship in Demography), the University of Munich (LMU), Germany (under Professor Ludwig Fahrmeir and Professor Stephan Klasen), and the University of Lagos, Nigeria as an Associate Lecturer.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


  • NIHR Cochrane programme grant (FULL): Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, with Dr Karen Rees, Health Sciences Research Institute, Dr Saverio Stranges MD, PhD - Health Sciences Research Institute, Prof Margaret Thorogood - Health Sciences Research Institute, Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (DoH), Project Start Date: 01/04/2011 Project End Date: 31/03/2014
  • Prenatal and Family Precursors of Bullying Involvement in Childhood and their Consequences into Early Adulthood, with Prof Dieter F Wolke, Psychology, Funded by: ESRC, Project Start Date: 01/10/2012 Project End Date: 31/03/2014
  • RDF Monash: Sub-Saharan African Network follow-up of collaborative research with Monash, Funded by: Research Development Fund, Project Start Date: 08/06/2012 Project End Date: 31/07/2013

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Kandala N-B,Tigbe W, Manda S, Stranges S, (2013) 'Spatial Variation of Predictors of Hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of South-Africa' American Journal of Hypertension 26 (3), 382 - 391
  • Ji C, Kandala, N-B. and Cappuccio, F. P. (2013) 'Spatial variation of salt intake in Britain and association with socioeconomic status' BMJ Open 3 (1), e002246 [article]
  • Emina Be-Ofuriyua, J. and Kandala, N-B. (2012) 'Accounting for recent trends in the prevalence of diarrhoea in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) : results from consecutive cross-sectional surveys' BMJ Open 2 (6), e001930 [article]
  • Kazembe L, Clarke A, and Kandala N-B (2012) 'Childhood mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: insight of small-scale geographical inequalities from Census data.' BMJ Open 2 (5 ), e001421 [article]
  • Stranges S, Tigbe, Gómez-Olivé F X, Thorogood M, Kandala N-B (2012) 'Sleep Problems: an Emerging Global Epidemic? Findings from the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE study among over 40,000 older adults from eight countries across Africa and Asia.' Sleep 35 (8), 1173 - 1181

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