CURRICULUM VITAE:

Esron Daniel KARIMURIBO

One Health Epidemiology Professor, Director- Postgraduate Studies and Research at Sokoine University of Agriculture& Chairman- Tanzania Veterinary Association E: karimuribo@sua.ac.tz; M:+25575 469 5760; ORCID: 0000-0002-5517-1769, twitter:@karimuribo

Summary I am a One Health Epidemiology Professor under the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA). I have been working with SUA since 2000 when I was employed as an Assistant Lecturer. Currently, I am also a Director for Postgraduate Studies, Research, Technology Transfer and Consultancy at SUA since 2017. I also work with the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS), a regional One Health institute headquartered at SUA since 2009 when I joined as the first Postdoctoral fellow registered at SUA. My initial role with SACIDS was to conduct research on resource mapping and application of mobile technologies in infectious disease surveillance as well as promoting inter-sectorial collaboration for One Health in Tanzania and Southern African region. This led to the seminal publication on policy framework for One Health research on zoonoses. This stimulated the thinking that our approach to One Health would need to be on the basis of a collaboration of biosciences and social sciences. So our initial work was extended by 2 social science Postdocs who focused on the understanding of community cultural norms and attitudes. We started a transdisciplinary consultative process, which involved interactions between scientists of different disciplines and government officials as well as communities. Thanks to the financial support from the Skoll Global Threats Fund/Ending Pandemics, I led a team which designed and developed an app called ‘AfyaData’ which has been rolled out to support disease surveillance in human and animal health sectors in East and southern African countries. In December 2015, led the first EpiHack in Africa, an event which involved epidemiologists, human and animal health specialists, IT software developers and community leaders. This led to the definition of the parameters that guided our design and development of the ‘AfyaData’ tool to one support one health syndromic disease surveillance in animal and human health sectors. On 1st July, 2019, the ‘AfyaData’ team was awarded Prize by the Fondation Pierre Fabre.

In 2016 I assumed the leadership of the SACIDS research group on Cross-Cutting One Health Sciences. This has progressively stimulated us towards systems and integrative strategies, which are now central to the new SACIDS Mission. To date, I have published more 110 articles in peer reviewed international journals (Citations- 3,206; h-index-33, i10-index-80 based on Google Scholar statistics as at 21 st September, 2021).

University Education Institution Degree Year (s) Field of Study University of Reading, United Kingdom PhD 1999-2002 Veterinary Epidemiology Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania MVM 1996-1998 Veterinary Epidemiology Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania BVM 1990-1995 Veterinary Medicine 2 Fellowships and Awards Awarding organisation Year Reason Fondation Pierre Fabre, France 2019 Laureate of the 2019 Global South eHealth Observatory in respect to utilisation of AfyaData app to support brucellosis management in Tanzania, https://www.fondationpierrefabre.org/en/currentinitiatives/meet-the-five-winners-of-the-2019-globalsouth-ehealth-observatory-awards/ Rockefeller Foundation-SACIDS Project 2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2009 - 2012 Rothamsted International, UK 2007 Visiting African Research Fellowship at Moredun Research Institute, UK, focusing on Molecular Epidemiology, January-December 2007 Ministry of Education, Tanzania 1989 Best Overall Outstanding performance in Advanced level secondary education science subject national examinations Employment History Institution Position Year Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Professor 2018 to date Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Associate Professor 2012-2018 Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Senior Lecturer 2009-2012 Moredun Research Institute, UK Visiting Research Fellow 2007-2007 Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Lecturer 2002-2009 Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Assist. Lecturer 2000-2002 Research and administrative duties Tanzania Veterinary Association Chairman 2020-2023 Sokoine University of Agriculture Director of Postgraduate Studies and Research 2017 to date Sokoine University of Agriculture Head, Department of Medical Sciences 2016-2017 SACIDS at SUA Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2009-2011

Membership in Committees and Associations 1. Member, Tanzania Veterinary Association (1996 to present). 2. Member, Senate Postgraduate Studies Committee, Sokoine University of Agriculture (2002- 2008; Re-appointed for the 2014-2017 triennium). 3. Member, ‘Epi Wiki’, an Epidemiology group at the University of Edinburgh and Moredun Research Institute, Scotland-UK (March to December, 2007) 4. Member, Southern Africa Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) Management Board (2012 to 2016). 5. Member, Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS) Board (2015 to 2019). 6. Member, SACIDS ‘TechnoHealth Surveillance’ newsletter Editorial Team (2015 to 2019). 7. Member, Disease Surveillance Working Group under Prime Minister’s Office One Health Coordination Desk (2016 to date). 3 8. Member, Participatory Epidemiology Network for Animal and Public Health (PENAPH) (2012 to present) 9. Member, Expert and External Evaluation Team for the Caribbean Animal Health Network (CaribVET) sponsored by the French CIRAD Organization. June 2017 10. Member, Senate Research, Postgraduate studies and Technology Transfer Committee at SUA (2017 to present) 11. Member, Senate of Sokoine University of Agriculture (2017 to present)

Research Grants (active in the last Six Years, 2015-2021) From 1998 to date, I have managed and coordinated 22 different research projects. Selected projects managed in the last six years are listed below: 1. FS-Net Africa. The Food Systems Research Network for Africa, a capacity building programme to support early career research fellows at SUA. €48,400. University of Pretoria, South Africa. Institutional Coordinator (April, 2021 to March, 2023) 2. icipe- The PASET Africa Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund. Innovative Biosystems for Self-sufficiency in Molecular Biology Reagents in Africa. Grant Agreement No. RSIF/ICBP/005. US $ 50,000. Principal Investigator. (20th October 2020 to 19th October 2022). 3. Skoll Foundation. SACIDS-COVID 19 Project on Strengthening Emergency Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 in Southern Africa. Grant Agreement No. 20-45012. US$ 4,000,000. CoInvestigator. (March 2020 to March 2021). 4. Fondation Pierre Fabre. Promoting Proper Management of Zoonotic Diseases through One Health e-based Training of Frontline Healthcare Workers. €22,248. Project Leader and Laureate. (July 2019 to December, 2020). 5. Ending Pandemics of TIDES Foundation, Scaling up Community Level Digital One Health Surveillance to Enhance Disease Outbreak Detection and Response in Morogoro region, Tanzania. Grant Agreement No. 1808-53551, US$234,973. Project Leader (September 2018 to March 2020). 6. World Bank funding on SACIDS African Centre of Excellence for Infectious Disease Surveillance. Grant No. P151847 IDA 57990. US$ 6,000,000. (May 2016 to December, 2022). One Health Sciences Community of Practice (CoP) Leader. 7. Skoll Global Threats Fund; SACIDS scaling-out application of mobile technologies (AfyaData) in selected sites in Tanzania to support community-based disease outbreak detection and response in East and Southern Africa-Phase 1.5. Grant Agreement No. 17-41812, US$ 450,000. Project Leader. (March 2017 to May 2018). 8. Skoll Global Threats Fund; SACIDS ICT tool (AfyaData) development for enhancing communitybased disease outbreak detection and response in East and Southern Africa-Phase 1.0. Grant Agreement No. 14-02688, US $ 450,000. Project Leader. (August 2015 to December 2016). 9. NORAD-supported project through Enhancing Pro-poor Innovation in Natural Resources and Agricultural Value Chains (EPINAV) programme on increased market access of beef and milk from pastoral system through innovative value chain approaches in breeding, feeding and health in Kilosa and Gairo districts, Tanzania. US$114,054.3). Project Leader. (2011-2015). 10. European Commission Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme on 'Enhancing Community of Practice in One Health for Infectious Diseases through Post-Graduate Training'. Grant No.2012-3166/001-001. €1,993,925. Mobility Coordinator. (2012-2017).

Selected publications

1) Sindato, C.; Mboera, L.E.G.; Beda, E.; Mwabukusi, M. and Karimuribo, E.D. (2021). Community Health Workers and disease surveillance in Tanzania: Promoting the use of mobile technologies in detecting and reporting health events. Health Security, 19 (1). Doi:10.1089/hs.2019.0096. 4

2) Ntirandekura, J-B.; Makene, V.A.; Kasanga, C.; Matemba, L.E.; Kimera, S.I.; Muma, J.B. and Karimuribo, E.D. (2020). Molecular characterization of Brucella species detected in humans and domestic ruminants of pastoral areas in Kagera ecosystem, Tanzania. Veterinary Medicine and Science. doi/full/10.1002/vms3.298

3) Sagamiko, F.D.; Mfune, R.L.; Hang'ombe, B.M.; Karimuribo, E.D.; Mwanza, A.M., Sindato, C. and Muma, J.B. (2020). Seroprevalence of human Brucellosis and associated risk factors among high-risk occupations in Mbeya Region of Tanzania. Journal of Epidemiological Research, 6(1). Available at https://doi.org/10.5430/jer.v6n1p1

4) Ntirandekura, J-B.; Matemba, L.E.; Kimera, S.I.; Muma, J.B. and Karimuribo, E.D. (2020). Association of brucellosis to abortions in humans and domestic ruminants in Kagera ecosystem, Tanzania. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13516.

5) Danquah, L.; Sulo, J.; Mersini, K.; Bion, S.; Huda, N.; Adisasmito, W.; Soebandrio, A.; Karimuribo, E.D. et al. (2019). Assessment of event-based Surveillance in cross border areas of six Regional networks. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 79 (S1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2018.11.100.

6) Suleiman, T.S., Karimuribo, E.D. and Mdegela, R.H. (2018). Prevalence of bovine subclinical mastitis and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of major mastitis pathogens isolated in Unguja island of Zanzibar, Tanzania. Tropical Animal Health and Production, 50(2): 259-266.

7) Hanin, M.C.E., Queenan, K., Savic, S., Karimuribo, E., Rüegg, S.R. and Häsler, B. (2018). A One Health Evaluation of the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance. Frontiers in Veterinary Science,16 https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2018.00033.

8) Sagamiko, F.D., Muma, J.N., Karimuribo, E.D., Mwanza, A.M., Sindato, C. and Hang’ombe, B.M. 2018). Sero-prevalence of Bovine Brucellosis and associated risk factors in Mbeya region, Southern highlands of Tanzania. Acta Tropica, 178: 169-175.

9) Mangesho, P.E., Neselle, M.O., Karimuribo, E.D., Mlangwa, J.E., Queenan, K., Mboera, L.E., ... & Rweyemamu, M. (2017). Exploring local knowledge and perceptions on zoonoses among pastoralists in northern and eastern Tanzania. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(2), e0005345.

10) Queenan, K., Mangesho, P., Ole-Neselle, M., Karimuribo, E., Rweyemamu, M., Kock, R., & Häsler, B. (2017). Using local language syndromic terminology in participatory epidemiology: Lessons for One Health practitioners among the Maasai of Ngorongoro, Tanzania. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 139, 42-49.

11) Karimuribo, E.D., Mutagahywa, E., Sindato, C., Mboera, L., Mwabukusi, M., Njenga, M.K., Teesdale, S., Olsen, J. and Rweyemamu, M. (2017). A Smartphone App (AfyaData) for Innovative One Health Disease Surveillance from Community to National Levels in Africa: Intervention in Disease Surveillance. JMIR Public Health Surveillance, 3(4): e94. doi: 10.2196/publichealth.7373.

12) Coker, R.; Rushton, J.; Mounier-Jack, S.; Karimuribo, E.; Lutumba, P.; Kambarage, D.; Pfeiffer, D.; Stärk, K. & Rweyemamu, M. (2011). Towards a conceptual framework to support ‘One Health’ research and policy. The Lancet Infectious Diseases11: 326-331. DOI: 10.1016/S1473- 3099(10)70312-1.

13) Karimuribo, E.D.; Mboera, L.E.G.; Mbugi, E.; Simba, A.; Kivaria, F.M.; Mmbuji, P. & Rweyemamu, M. (2012). Are we prepared for emerging and re-emerging diseases? Experience and lessons from epidemics that occurred in Tanzania during the last five decades. Tanzania Journal of Health Research. 13(Suppl 1). DOI 10.4314/thrb.v13i5.8

14) Karimuribo, E.D.; Batamuzi, E.K.; Massawe, L.B.; Silayo, R.S.; Mgongo, F.O.K.; Kimbita, E. & Wambura, R.M. (2016). Potential use of mobile phones in improving animal health service delivery in underserved rural areas: Experience from Kilosa and Gairo districts in Tanzania. BVM Veterinary Research 12:219. doi:10.1186/s12917-016-0860-z. 5

15) Hounmanou, Y.M., Agonsanou, S.S., Dougnon, V., Vodougnon, M.H., Achoh, E.M., Mohamed, J. & Karimuribo, E.D. (2016). The Necessity of Mobile Phone Technologies for Public Health Surveillance in Benin. Advances in Public Health 2016, Article ID 5692480, 7 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5692480