REDCap Africa Symposium 2022

Paul A. Harris, PhD serves as Director for the Vanderbilt Office of Research Informatics and in this capacity oversee research data warehousing, data and information management platforms, patient recruitment services, and other enterprise-wide informatics resources. He is founder and faculty lead for REDCap and ResearchMatch.  Dr. Harris is PI for the All of Us Data and Research Center and PI for the Trial Innovation Network Recruitment Innovation Center housed at Vanderbilt, both housed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Professor Willem Hanekom is the director of Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. He a clinician-scientist who trained in medicine and pediatrics in South Africa and in pediatric infectious disease and research immunology in the USA. Currently. He previously directed the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative before leading the TB vaccine group at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He has more than 200 publications and has been awarded competitive funding by most prominent agencies. He is the past president of the South African Immunological Society and of the Federation of African Immunological Societies. He has reviewed for international funding agencies and scientific journals and has served on multiple international advisory committees in tuberculosis, vaccine development and translational immunology.

Dr Kobus Herbst is the Director of the DSI-funded South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN). SAPRIN is hosted by the South African Medical Research Council and funds the population and health surveillance at six nodes (Agincourt, Mpumalanga; DIMAMO Limpopo, AHRI rural KZN, GRT-INSPIRED Gauteng, C-SHARP WC, USINGA urban KZN). He is a faculty member and the Director Population Science at the Africa Health Research Institute and the principal investigator of its Population Intervention Programme (PIP). He co-leads a collaboration with JPR Ochieng-Odero responsible for the formative phase of the Africa Population Cohort Consortium. He is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International HundredK Cohort Consortium (IHCC).

Jaco Dreyer is a Senior Research Data Manager at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) - a HIV and TB research organisation based in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Jaco has more than 20 years’ experience in Data Management spanning from clinical- database programming and data management, research data systems design and study management, managing teams of Data Managers and Database Programmers and Regulatory Quality Assurance activities in various Contract Research Organizations (Quintiles, PAREXEL, Quanticate), Pharmaceutical Institutions (Novartis, GSK) and Non-Government Organizations (Perinatal HIV Research Unit). Jaco joined AHRI in 2015 and has been responsible for population-based studies: Population Intervention Programme, DREAMS evaluation-, Multilevel HIV Prevention- and STAR projects. It is while working in these projects that Jaco has extensively used REDCap for data collection. He has been using REDCap for data collection since 2017 and is the current chair of the REDCap Africa regional consortium.

Mapule Nhlapho is a Biomedical Informatics Manager at Wits Biomedical Informatics and Translational Science (WitsBITS) a division of Wits Health Consortium in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa. Mapule joined the Biomedical Informatics team in 2016 and currently leads a team of Biomedical Informaticists in supporting active REDCap users with REDCap related issues. Mapule is the current treasurer and leads the training portfolio in the REDCap Africa regional consortium.

Anna Jaeger is a data manager in the Infectious disease epidemiology department at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for tropical Medicine (BNITM). She studied Medical Information Management at the University of applied science in Hannover, Germany. Since then, she is working in the BNITM. Her tasks are designing the Case Report Forms (CRF), programming the study databases, data reconciliation, managing of Queries, data cleaning and support to the field teams as well as administering the in-house laboratory information management system.

Brendan Gilbert is the Head of Information Technology at Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) and has over 17 years’ experience in Enterprise IT of which 6 years is supporting REDCap as system administrator. Brendan joined AHRI in 2015 and responsible for managing and support all AHRI IT infrastructure requirements across their various campuses and satellite sites. He is an active REDCap consortium forum member and aids LMIC institutions with technical advice.

Katherine Johnston is an H3ABioNet / eLwazi / DS-I Africa member working in the Computational Biology Division at University of Cape Town with 15 years practical experience in Clinical Data Management and Health Informatics. She is the administrator for the H3ABioNet and eLwazi REDCap instance and provides support in REDCap to users in addition to leading projects in areas of phenotype data and data harmonisation.

Rob Taylor is the team manager and lead developer of the REDCap platform at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he oversees the design and development of the REDCap software and also manages the support staff that serve the Vanderbilt community and the entire REDCap consortium of partner institutions around the world. 

Suresh is a techie at heart. His experience spans system and network administration as well as designing and developing ICT infrastructure. Suresh joined the Computational Biology Group in 2013 as a systems administrator and is actively involved with infrastructure and HPC development within groups such as H3ABioNet, H3Afirca, eLwazi, DSI-Africa, AfricaBP and PHA4GE. In addition to system administration, his technology interests include system automation and system security.

Annemie Stewart is an MPH (Epidemiology) graduate and has worked at UCT since 2012. She was a Data Manager in pharmacovigilance and later clinical trials, before being appointed as the Operations Manager of the UCT Clinical Research Centre in 2020.

Temweka Chirwa is a Civil Engineer turned Data Scientist. She currently works as a data scientist for the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, a medical research unit of Wits University at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. She is currently working towards her PhD at the University of Johannesburg, focusing on different applications of data science and artificial intelligence in medical research and diagnostics. Her interests include computer vision, image based analysis and natural language processing.

Floris Swanepoel is a Data Manager at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU) a division of Wits Health Consortium in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witswatersrand, which includes being an administrator for two of its REDCap instances. He has obtained several qualifications in Software Development through UNISA. Close collaboration with researchers and a solution driven approach has allowed him to better understand business needs and to find innovative ways of improving current strategies through several unique and bespoke data management solutions.

Kapongo Daddy Lumamba: 
BSc Degree of Computer Science – IT management Stream (UNISA)
Honor degree in Computing (UNISA)
Currently registered for MSc in computer science with UKZN
Co-authored a number of publications including:

A high-resolution 3D atlas of the spectrum of tuberculous and COVID-19 lung lesions

µCT Analysis of the Human Tuberculous Lung Reveals Remarkable Heterogeneity in 3D Granuloma Morphology

Vulval Tuberculosis: The Histomorphological Spectrum in Patients with HIV Co-Infection and AIDS.

Giovanni Delacqua is a software developer from Nashville Tennessee who joined the REDCap family in 2016 as Associate Application Developer. He currently manages the development of the two REDCap mobile applications, the REDCap Mobile App and MyCap, as Principal Application Developer.