About CSIDS

CSIDS (pronounced SEE-sids) is a group of researchers who are dedicated to improving disease surveillance in the age of data science.

Team

Chi Zhang

Chi Zhang

Chi is a statistical programmer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. She develops open source tools (R packages, quarto websites) in her daily work.

As a part-time lecturer, she teach statistics courses at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) and R programming at the Carpentries workshops at University of Oslo.

Richard Aubrey White

Richard Aubrey White

Richard is an applied infectious diseases statistician based in Oslo, Norway.

He is currently employed as the project manager for the Norwegian Syndromic Surveillance System (NorSySS), a surveillance system of infectious diseases based on consultations with general practitioners and out-of-hours primary care facilities, based in the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet).

His international field experience includes performing needs assessments in Sri Lanka and developing/managing surveillance systems for Ebola in Sierra Leone, acute watery diarrhea/cholera in Mozambique, and maternal health in Palestine.