Chodziwadziwa Kabudula

Chodziwadziwa (Cho) Kabudula, is a population health data scientist with expertise in record linkage of health and population data from disparate sources; developing, managing, maintaining and analysing complex temporal population and health research datasets and developing software tools to support field research activities. He has developed most of his professional expertise using data from the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) hosted by MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit in South Africa where he has worked since 2008 as well as other HDSS platforms in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Cho’s research focusses on the application of demographic, statistical, computational and informatics techniques to investigate population-level morbidity, mortality and utilisation of health services, and their determinants.  With the goal of advancing understanding of the causes and consequences of diseases, particularly in African populations, Cho is working on linkage of smartphone and wearable data with existing electronic healthcare databases and integration of smartphone and wearable measurements into epidemiological cohorts as well as developing new measures of health status from research grade wearables.