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Team

A small core. A wide working-modeller network.

AMB v0.0 is held by a lead consultant and a senior adviser, with country anchors in active conversation. Around that core, a pro-bono network of working modellers contributes methods review — and from v0.5, dossier-by-dossier matching to researchers.

Core

2

Anchors

3

TZ · MW · DRC

Advisers

6+

Pro-bono network

Core + country anchors

Who holds the work.

4 profiles · sorted by role

EM

Ernest Moyo

Founder & Lead Modeller · Africa Modelling Bridge

Epidemiologist & Health-Systems Modeller · Southern & East Africa

Epidemiologist and health-systems modeller with over a decade supporting African Ministries of Health — turning modelling outputs into real programme decisions. Has built malaria risk maps and stratifications alongside leading global modelling groups, and is deepening the craft through doctoral research in mathematical modelling. Founder of the Africa Modelling Bridge.

Methods · contribution

  • Bayesian geostatistics
  • malaria risk mapping
  • transmission modelling
  • health financing
  • policy translation
LL

Lesley-Anne Long

Senior Adviser · Africa Modelling Bridge

Wonderfuture · Lunch for Democracy · USA / UK

Co-founder of Wonderfuture and originator of the *Lunch for Democracy* methodology that anchors AMB's dialogue layer. Provides strategic counsel on funder positioning, comms, and the operational ethos of the collaborative.

Methods · contribution

  • strategic counsel
  • public-affairs
  • funder relationships
  • deliberative dialogue methodology
CA

Country Anchor — Tanzania

Country Anchor — Tanzania

Preview

TBD · Tanzania

A senior Tanzanian researcher or programme officer in active conversation with AMB. Will be named here when confirmed. The anchor's first task is co-curating the Layer-0 Tanzanian Ministry of Health document index.

In conversation — named on v0.1

Methods · contribution

  • public-health surveillance
  • malaria operational research
  • document curation
CA

Country Anchor — Malawi

Country Anchor — Malawi

Preview

TBD · Malawi

A Malawian academic or programme officer in active conversation with AMB. Will be named here when confirmed. The anchor's first task is the Malawi document index and supervising the EPI-coverage-dropout dossier.

In conversation — named on v0.1

Methods · contribution

  • public-health analysis
  • HMIS analytics
  • EPI programme review
CD

Country Anchor — DRC

Country Anchor — DRC

Preview

TBD · DRC (FR / EN)

A Kinshasa- or Lubumbashi-based academic or PNLP programme officer with francophone modelling networks. Anchor for DRC document curation and the first bilingual dossier.

Outreach opens v0.1

Working-modeller network

The methods conscience.

These are the pro-bono advisers AMB consults before publishing methods notes or matching a researcher to a dossier. They are not staff; they are the bench every methodological choice is checked against. The working-modeller advisory model is documented in governance.

  • Nick Golding

    Bayesian inference · geospatial

    Creator of greta; UWA Chair in Infectious Disease Modelling; Director of Malaria Ecology at MAP. Pro-bono lens on every methods question that touches the spatial / Bayesian stack.

  • IDEM-LAB

    Infectious-disease ecology

    Nick Golding's lab at The Kids Research Institute Australia. Methods sparring partners for ACEFA, surveillance modelling and species-distribution work.

  • Malaria Atlas Project

    Malaria geospatial atlas

    Standing reference for the cartographic and SNT-adjacent modelling work the dossiers will reproduce, extend, or critique.

  • Vector Atlas

    Vector ecology atlas

    The consortium Ernest sits inside as a PhD candidate — methods continuity from his own research into AMB's vector-ecology dossiers.

  • AIMS network

    African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

    Continental supply of MSc / PhD modellers — AMB's primary pipeline for researcher matching from v0.5 onward.

  • ACEFA

    African Centre of Excellence for Forecasting Africa

    Continental forecasting and surveillance-modelling collective. Working-modeller advisers for time-series and outbreak work.

Joining AMB

Three doors in.

AMB is small by design. Engagement at v0.0 is concrete — a country anchor seat, a pro-bono adviser role, or a researcher matched to an open dossier.

01 · Country anchors

For ministry-side senior researchers.

A senior researcher or programme officer co-curates one country's document index and supervises its first dossier. Honorarium attached. One seat per country.

Open · TZ · MW · DRC

02 · Working-modeller advisers

For methods leads in IDEM-LAB / MAP / Vector Atlas / AIMS / ACEFA.

Pro-bono. One or two methods consultations per quarter, named on the dossiers you touch, no committee meetings. The lens, not the labour.

Rolling · pro-bono

03 · Researchers

For BSc / MSc / PhD students seeking a dossier match.

Self-nominate against an open dossier from v0.5. Each match comes with a question, a supervisor, a working-modeller adviser, a budget ask, and an open-access output.

Matching opens v0.5

Contact route · v0.0

The only inbox we run at v0.0 is the newsletter.

Sign up to the monthly digest. Reply to any issue and Ernest will respond inside three working days. Direct outreach forms — country-anchor, adviser, researcher — open on v0.1.

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