Dr. Vedaste NDAHINDWA

Dr. Vedaste Ndahindwa is the Chairperson of the Rwanda National Research Ethics Committee (RNEC) and a Lecturer at the University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Public Health (SPH). He obtained his MD from the University of Rwanda and a Master’s degree in Biostatistics from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He is currently completing a PhD program in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Umeå University in Sweden.
He previously served as the Director of the Medical Research Unit within the Medical Research Center Division at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre under the Ministry of Health, where he coordinated health related research activities. He also contributed to the WHO Rwanda Country Office as a Public Health Officer responsible for Emergency Preparedness and Response during the 2018–2020 Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo and COVID 19 outbreaks.
Dr. Ndahindwa has received training in Impact Evaluation from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He has worked on numerous research projects and has extensive experience in study design, data management, and advanced data analysis using multiple statistical software packages.
His research interests include the epidemiology of infectious diseases, emergency preparedness and response, biostatistical methods and modeling, machine learning, nutrition, health systems strengthening, and impact evaluation.