Andrea Kipingu
Senior Research Officer
PhD, MSc, BSc
andrea.kipingu@thekids.org.au
+61 8 6319 1000
Dr. Kipingu is a Senior Research Officer in the Global Disease Modelling Team. He specialises in mathematical and statistical modelling of population and infectious diseases dynamics, including vector-borne and zoonotic diseases such as malaria and Rift Valley fever. He has expertise in quantitative data analysis, power analysis, and sample size calculation. He is a trained teacher and taught secondary school mathematics in Tanzania before pursuing further studies. During his Masters studies, he further developed his interest in global public health, particularly in leveraging mathematical techniques to better understand infectious diseases and explore better ways of controlling its spread and severity.
Previously, Dr. Kipingu was a Senior Research Scientist (Postdoctoral Researcher) at Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania, where he supported multiple projects, including to build sustainable modelling capacity in Tanzania through developing a network of data scientists and mathematical modellers to support National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) (a project sponsored by the Gates Foundation); a Rift Valley fever epidemiology and modelling project to inform vaccine efficacy trials (as part of a Tanzania-UK consortium funded by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI); and a study of the biology and public health importance of Anopheles stephensi in Africa (funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK). He contributed research to WHO’s scoping review on malaria, climate change and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) to inform the COP28 report. In 2023, he co-chaired a scientific session at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) conference (Chicago, USA), and also received an award for his poster presentation at the Pan-African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) conference (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia).
Dr. Kipingu holds a PhD in Infectious Diseases (2025) from the University of Glasgow (UK), a MSc in Mathematical Sciences (2019) from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Rwanda), and a BSc with Education (Informatics & Mathematics) (2017) from Sokoine University of Agriculture (Tanzania). He is currently working on a project focused on modelling to support the development of next-generation vaccines and other interventions to reduce malaria spread and severity in children and other vulnerable populations.
Education and Qualifications
- 2021-2025: PhD (Infectious Diseases) - University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
- 2018-2019: MSc (Mathematical Sciences) – African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kigali, Rwanda.
- 2014-2017: BSc with Education (Informatics & Mathematics) – Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.
Awards/Honours
- 2023 – Travel award, Pan-African Mosquito Control Association, Nairobi, Kenya.
- 2023 - Poster competition winner, Pan-African Mosquito Control Association annual conference and exhibitions, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 2021 - Graduate School conference support funding, College of Medicine, Veterinary and Life Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
- 2020 - Scholarship for the 13rd Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modelling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID), School of public Health, University of Washington, US.
- 2020 – Doctoral Scholarship under Lord Kelvin and Adam Smith (LKAS) leadership grant, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
- 2018 - Masters’ scholarship, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Kigali, Rwanda
- 2015 - Best 1st year student in BSc with Education (Informatics & Mathematics), Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.
Active Collaborations
- Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.