Mary Ejiwale joined NIDCD in 2024 to serve as the Data Science Program Officer. She received a Ph.D. in biomedical and health informatics from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Prior to joining NIDCD, she was a Public Health Informatics Fellow between 2021 and 2024 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where her host site was the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). While there, she actively participated in the agency’s Data Science Upskilling (DSU) program, among many other activities. She led and collaborated on two DSU projects that align with the agency’s Data Modernization Initiative (DMI). Her areas of interest include data analysis; predictive modeling with machine learning; data management, sharing, and reuse; and data quality testing to promote reliable analytical insights for trustworthy data-driven decisions.
Data science