ABOUT CLETUS TINDANA

Cletus Tindana is an experienced Health Information Officer and Data Manager with over three decades at the Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC).

He began his career at NHRC in 1992, working as a Field Worker/Senior Field Supervisor on the Entomology Project within the Impregnated Bednets Trials Study, where he contributed to landmark research on mosquito vector control and its impact on child mortality in the Kassena-Nankana district.

Over the years, Cletus has gained extensive field and technical experience across various public health studies. In the mid-1990s, he contributed to the Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System, conducting verbal autopsies, and later supervised fieldwork for the Malaria Attack Rates Study in collaboration with NAMRU-3 in Egypt. From 2000 to 2007, he coordinated field activities for meningitis and malaria studies, managing team recruitment, training, and data collection for projects such as Neisseria Colonisation in the African Meningitis Belt and the Roll Back Malaria surveys in Northern Ghana.

Since 2001, Cletus has also managed data for large-scale projects, including the Malaria Transmission Intensity and Mortality Burdens across Africa (MTIMBA) project. Currently, as Health Information Officer at War Memorial Hospital, he oversees the Management Information Systems (MIS), designing databases to track and analyze patient data for both communicable and non-communicable diseases. This data supports decision-making for both the hospital and NHRC, reinforcing Cletus’s commitment to using data-driven insights to improve public health.

With research interests in Health Information Management, Demographic Surveillance, International Health, and Public Health, Cletus is a dedicated contributor to advancing health information systems in Ghana.