Dr. Honorati Masanja

Dr Honorati Masanja received his MSc Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and his PhD in epidemiology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Masanja has vast experience in data management, analysis of clinical trials and in evaluation of large maternal and child health effectiveness programs. He lectured a module in health informatics at the University of Dar es Salaam, and also supervised MSc Population Based Field Epidemiology students from Witwatersrand University in South Africa during their field attachment at Ifakara. Dr Masanja has published extensively in the area of malaria epidemiology, maternal and child health in internationally renowned journals. He joined IHI in 1992, participated in the first malaria vaccine trial in Africa (SPf66). He spearheaded the establishment of the Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance System (RHDSS), as system that provides annual information on births, deaths, causes of deaths and migration in a population of approximately 90,000 people. RHDSS data also feeds into the national planning and reporting tool (PlanRep2). Dr. Masanja has also pioneered the establishment of the sentinel panel of districts (SPD) in 23 districts. This is a national platform that is expected to provide both national level estimates on causes of deaths from the community and health information system data on various routine and program indicators for health sector monitoring in mainland Tanzania