Victor Alegana

Dr Victor Alegana is a Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton, UK. His work focuses on applying spatial data science to address public health challenges, particularly infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries. He holds a PhD (2014) and MSc (2011) from the University of Southampton, specializing in spatial modeling for public health systems.

Education:

• PhD: Developed space-time models for malaria incidence estimation (University of Southampton)
• MSc: Spatial modeling of healthcare utilization in Namibia (University of Southampton)

Research Interests:

• Improving disease estimates for malaria elimination
• Healthcare equity and delivery in resource-limited settings
• Burden of treatment analysis via Bayesian IRT models
• SDG indicator precision using nationally representative data

Affiliations:

• Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW) research group
• Global Environmental Change and Earth Observation affiliate group