We have a statistical support services for all postgraduate students in our department.
This is a unique service to which we direct DRC funds.
It is a requirement for all MMed students in the department to have a meeting with our statistical support to discuss their project at the protocol development stage for DRC approval.
Currently Mr Basera’s time is considerably restricted (10 hours/week), but the DRC has approved an expansion of the statistical support in 2019.
We hope to have the preferred candidate available for statistical support by June 2019.
Statistical Analyst - Mr Wisdom Basera
Wisdom is currently enrolled in a PhD in Public Health with the Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research.
He completed his MPH specialising in Biostatistics and Epidemiology in 2013. He has worked in different research groups including SAFFA, CIDRI, DTHF and CIDER as a Data Manager and Data Analyst. Current projects include developing pesticide exposure methodology and assessing the effects of environmental pesticide exposure on reproductive development in a rural Western Cape cohort of children. He also provides data analysis support for the IMPI-2/CREOLE Clinical Trials under the Mayosi Research Group and young emerging researchers respectively.