Happy Mkali

PhD student Global Health | Emerging Infectious Diseases enthusiast | Disease surveillance| Health system strengthening | Lab tech 🧬🧬

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

About

Experience

  • Research Scientist (Chikungunya surveillance) at Ifakara Health Institute
    Nov 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    Coordinating surveillance lab activities at Kigoma and Tanga regions for the CEPI- funded Accelerating Chikungunya Burden Estimation to inform Vaccine Evaluation (ACHIEVE) study. Coordinating sample transportation from the field to the central lab KEMRI -Kilifi https://cepi.net/pain-after-bite-tracking-chikungunyas-debilitating-impact-east-africa

  • Ifakara Health Institute (13 yrs 2 mos)
    • Research Scientist (Virus Surveillance)
      Jan 2016 - Dec 2024 · 9 yrs

      2020-2024: Coordinating surveillance activities at the sentinel health facilities engaged in the DYNAMIC project which is evaluating the implementation of a digital clinical decision support algorithm (eCDSA) for management of acute-ill children in Morogoro and Mbeya regions in Tanzania. Microbiological surveillance (respiratory viruses, gastroviruses and arboviruses) at IHI and NIMR-MMRC labs. 2016-2019: USAID-PREDICT project. Emerging zoonotic viruses surveillance (Filoviruses, Flaviviruses, Coronaviruses, Paramyxoviruses and Influenza) in Kigoma and Kagera regions (Tanzania)

    • Research Scientist
      Nov 2011 - Dec 2024 · 13 yrs 2 mos

    • Research Officer (Molecular Biology and Immunology Labs)
      Nov 2011 - Aug 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos

      November 2011-August 2013: US CDC, US Walter Reed Army and EDCTP projects. Malaria parasite culturing and ELISAs for malaria drug sensitivity studies, PCR analyses of human blood samples for malaria species identification.