Ms. Aneth Vedastus Kalinjuma is a biostatistician working with the Chronic Disease Clinic of Ifakara (CDCI) in the Department of Interventions and Clinical Trials. Her background is statistics with over ten-year working experience in nutrition surveys methodology. She holds BA in Statistics and MSc. in Statistics. Her research interests are: HIV, TB infection, nutrition outcomes in children under five years of age and adults; and malaria infection during pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes.

Ms. Kalinjuma joined the Institute in October 2014 from Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre (TFNC) where she worked as Research Officer (Statistics) under the department of Nutrition Policy and Planning (NPP). She holds an M.Sc. in Statistics (Biostatistics) from Hasselt University in Belgium she obtained in September 2012.

Previously, she was trained as a Statistician at University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania where she graduated in 2007. From 2018 to date, Ms. Kalinjuma is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States of America.

Ms. Kalinjuma began her career in October 2007 as Research Assistant (Statistics) at TFNC where she worked for seven years. She was responsible for nutrition research methodology, data processing and analysis and reporting. Later in October, 2014, she joined IHI as Research Scientist mainly responsible for data management and statistics for the Kilombero and Ulanga Antiretroviral Cohort (KIULARCO) embedded in HIV care and treatment center of St. Francis Referral Hospital at Ifakara, Morogoro, Tanzania. Since then she has participated in various research studies involving KIULARCO database for HIV-infected in rural, Tanzania.   

She has skills in data management and statistical analysis for cross-sectional data, longitudinal data, survival data, handling missing data for both cross-sectional and survival data. Further, she is trained on anthropometry measurements for children under five (weight and height), nutrition assessment and surveillance, food and nutrition security monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment, modeling infectious diseases, Service provision assessment survey data analysis. She can work conveniently with various statistical analysis platforms such as Stata, SAS, R and SPSS.

Research Areas: Her research interest includes: loss to follow-up among HIV-infected person enrolled in HIV care and treatment center, trends of body mass index in HIV-infected persons on antiretroviral treatment, vitamin D and pregnancy outcomes and placental malaria outcomes in pregnant women. She has co-authored 8 articles in international journals, with major role being data management and/or data analysis. #