Antoneta Mashinyira

Data Quality Officer

BCom (Hons) Information Systems, MPhil Candidate

CHI research group: General Medicine & Global Health (GMGH)

Antoneta Mashinyira is the Data Quality Officer in the General Medicine and Global Health (GMGH) research group and oversees all data development and management at GMGH. Her journey in research started when she joined CIDRI-Africa at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine at UCT as a data capture more than ten years ago. She developed a passion for information systems, especially in healthcare and studied data management and information systems. In 2013, Antoneta was promoted to become the Data Control Coordinator at CIDRI-Africa, coordinating data capture and cleaning and quality management across multiple studies, including multicentre randomised controlled trials and cohort studies. Antoneta joined GMGH in 2020. Her particular interest is in technological innovations as healthcare interventions to improve health outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries. Antoneta is currently a fellow in the Fogarty HIV-associated TB Training Program.

Research engagements:

MDR-TB household contact studies (MDR HHC study)
Reducing TB treatment duration (PredictTB)
Preventing tuberculosis relapse and chronic lung disease (StatinTB)