CDC
NCEH
4770 Buford Highway
MS F-57
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30341
Email:
gnamulanda@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Gonza Namulanda has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Chemistry from University of Nairobi and a Master of Science degree in Health Informatics from University of Missouri- Columbia. She has been providing informatics expertise in the Environmental Health Tracking Branch program activities for the past three years.
She joined CDC in July 2006 as a public health informatics fellow, with the Office of Workforce and Career Development’s Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program. During the two-year fellowship program, she was assigned to the Environmental Health Tracking Branch.
After she graduated from the fellowship program, she continued working at the Tracking Branch as a Health Scientist, Informatics, where she has been providing leadership to the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program metadata and vocabulary efforts.
Before coming to CDC, Gonza worked with the Missouri Cancer Registry on projects developing mechanisms for implementing electronic laboratory (e-Path) reporting and web-based cancer reporting processes for Missouri physicians and other non-hospital health care facilities with a special emphasis on prostate and other genito-urinary system cancers. Her interests and experience include geographic information systems, data standards and vocabularies, data modeling, and surveillance systems evaluation.