Christiana is a public health researcher and health data scientist who began her data journey through self-study. She is driven by curiosity and a passion for research that sits outside the mainstream鈥攐verlooked conditions, underserved communities, and questions that do not always make the headlines.

Her journey has taken her from applying data skills to e-reconciliation in the financial sector to supporting data collection and management for the National Malaria Indicator Survey (NMIS) 2021 at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, and more recently to researching the relationship between substance use and hypertension in young adults at the University of Dundee.

Christiana is drawn to the spaces where data can do the most unexpected good, which is why she believes her upcoming internship at St Oswald鈥檚 Hospice is no accident. Through her BIP 2026 internship, she hopes to use data to tell stories that connect donors to the real impact of hospice work, while also identifying opportunities to strengthen data collection where gaps exist.

For Christiana, health data is most powerful when it gives visibility to the people, communities, and issues too often left out of the conversation.

Christiana is an intern with

St Oswald’s Hospice