Rodrigue Ndabashinze is a medical doctor from Burundi with a background in global public health. He graduated from the University of Burundi’s Faculty of Medicine and gained clinical experience before pursuing a Master’s in Global Health at Moi University in Kenya. Currently, Rodrigue is completing a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, where he is evaluating the transportability of effect measures across populations in meta-analyses of clinical trials.
Rodrigue has provided clinical care in low-resource settings and developed an interest in clinical trials and health technology assessment, crucial for low- and middle-income countries. He took a short course at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in The Gambia. He is currently providing technical support to the IMPRIMA Project, which aims to demonstrate the safety, acceptability, and community benefit of single low-dose primaquine (SLDPQ) in three African countries with different malaria epidemiologies, funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP).
Rodrigue has extensive experience working internationally with global health researchers and has contributed to publishing research articles. Passionate about advancing evidence-based healthcare, he completed a short course in systematic review and meta-analysis at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, funded by Cochrane South Africa. Rodrigue is excited about new methodologies in clinical trials, such as causal inference methods and machine learning applied to real-world data and clinical trials to improve patient outcomes.
He is joining the Evidence Synthesis Ireland Fellowship to gain further methodological skills and experience in evidence synthesis by working with international experts. This will help him become an independent evidence synthesis methodologist, a skill he plans to master and transfer to his peers in low-income settings where primary evidence is rising but expertise in evidence synthesis is lacking to inform clinical, public health, or policy practice.
