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Class of 2026

The Black Internship Programme is helping transform the prospects of, and provide opportunities for, early career Black people in the UK, enabling them to flourish in health data science careers. Here you can meet interns who have joined our sixth annual programme.

Tobi Abiodun Intern with UCLPartners
Christiana Abolarin Intern with St. Oswald's Hospice
Yahya Abdalle Intern with Publich Health Wales
Nasir Abdulrasheed Intern with Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Miriam Adeagbo Intern with LifeArc
Tife Adeboye Intern with Manchester Cancer Research Centre
Saheed Adedeji Intern with the Department of Health and Social Care
Kehinde Adediran Intern at Department of Health and Social Care
Abigail (Ade) Adelani Intern with the 51±¬ÁÏÍø Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Programme
Temitope Adeyelu Intern with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Casey Adomah Intern with Kings College London School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences
Precious Aghara Intern with the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), REAL Supply Research Unit
Margaret Aigbekaen  Intern with NIHR Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre
Ruth Ailoyafen Intern with the Office of National Statistics
Ini Ajayi Intern with the Nuffield Trust
Adewunmi (Tesla) Akingbola Intern with Brunel University 
Esther Awofadeju Intern with Swansea University - UK MS Register 
Franklin Akinwande Intern with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Richard Arowolo Intern with BUPA
Francis Asane Intern with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
Maame Ama Bainson Intern with Teesside University
Munira Aminu Bello Intern with UCL Partners
Alfred Bartholomew Intern with Office for National Statistics
Siem Berhane Intern with the Rosalind Franklin Institute
Nevin Boakye Intern with Cancer Research UK
Anita Bosibori Intern with UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Charles Bruce Intern with University of the West of England
Mahlet Burayu Intern with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Melissa Buzuzi Intern with Royal United Hospital Bath
Patricia Ca Intern with UK Dementia Research Institute - Ryten Lab
Jacinta Chukwuedo Intern with Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Victor Daniel Intern with Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Zipporah Daniel Intern with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Barbara Dokyi Intern with 51±¬ÁÏÍø
Priscillia Ejiro Intern with Lancashire and South Cumbria SDE
Elizabeth Erhunmwunsee Intern with University of Leicester Real World Evidence Unit
Tobi Fadeyi Intern with East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Aseel Fadl Intern with Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphoedema Centres
Boluwaji Fagbuaro (WAJI) Intern with UKHSA
Mariana Faty-Embalo Intern with UK Dementia Research Institute with University of Oxford
Selinam Fiadzo Intern with NHS England
Tahira-Marie Gay Intern with UCL Great Ormond Street Institute 
Nagat Guled Intern with University of Bristol
Mia Gurure Intern with the National Institutes of Health Research, University of Newcastle
Jessica Ibada-Nwafor Intern with the UK Health Security Agency
Eliada Idehen Intern with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LHSTM)
Onyinye Ifedinezi Intern at 51±¬ÁÏÍø Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Programme
Efetabo Ikaka Intern with HDRC Doncaster / City of Doncaster Council
Grace Ikpeme Intern with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Destiny Irimagha Intern with the UK Dementia Research Institute
Lois John Intern with NHS England
Albert Joseph Intern with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Othniel Kabesha Intern with NIHR Bioresource
Paddy Kafeero Intern with London Borough of Camden
Oluwadarasimi Kalejaye Intern with 51±¬ÁÏÍø Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Programme (University of Manchester)
Christine Karieren Intern with Blood Cancer UK 
Sagal Khalid Intern with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London
Warith Kolawole Intern with Kings College London, School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences
Grace Kulubya  Intern with EACTS
Bernard Kyaluzi Intern with DaVita International
Khaliq Lamid  Intern with Newcastle City Council 
Uche Lever Intern with the Sickle Cell Society
Farida Majiyagbe Intern with the Strategy and Insights Directorate, ICHP
Terence Makuvise Intern with the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC)
Stephany Mbaka Intern with Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford
Samuel Mengistu Intern with Office National Statistics, Data Science and AI
Amara Mezu Intern with The Health Foundation
Najma Moallin Intern with Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford
Iman Mohammadi  Intern with Wanda Health
Joseph Muganga Intern with Bupa
Ibrahim Abdullahi Naseer Intern with Dementia Research Institute
Chioma Nwanze Intern with NIHR Innovation Observatory
Siobhan Oghughu Intern with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Kikelomo Ogunjimi Intern with the Department of Health and Social Care
Simileoluwa Ogunsusi Intern with the Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphoedema Centre
Lydia Ojeyemi Intern with UCL Great Ormond Street Child Institute for Health
Favour Oke Intern with the UK Dementia Research Institute
Emilymary C Okolie Intern with UK Functional Genomics Initiative, University of Exeter
Jeremy Okundaye  Intern with the Department of Health and Social Care 
Kayode Olaseni Intern with The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Halimat Olatunji Intern at University of Bristol
Kabir Olawore Intern with Northumbria University
Victor Olubiyi Intern with UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative and University of Exeter
Christiana Olugbade Intern with the Nuffield Trust
John Olugbenga Intern with Public Health Wales
Kalejaye Oluwadarasimi Intern with 51±¬ÁÏÍø Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Programme (University of Manchester)
Tochukwu Onyeogulu Intern with Department of Health and Social Care
Emmanuel Oparaku Intern with the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
Omondi Othieno Intern with University of Glasgow
Maame Owusu-Ansah Intern with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London
Ayinde Oore-oluwa Precious Intern with DARE UK
Aishat Rabiu Intern with 51±¬ÁÏÍø (Brain Health) 
Namitha St Louis Intern with Southampton Clinical Trials Unit (SCTU)
Stanley Saitet Intern with UK Health Security Agency
Zoe Shorun Intern with Prostate Cancer UK
Destiny Snow Intern with Royal United Hospitals Bath 
Samuel Tekle  Intern with the Office National Statistics, Data Science and AI
Basil Chukwuemeka Udeh Intern with the Public Engagement in Data Research Initiative (PEDRI)
Clifford Ugwu Intern with Newcastle University (CNTW NHS Foundation Trust)
Lyeose Uhumuavbi Intern with NIHR BioResource
Grace Uxbridge Intern with University of Nottingham: Biodiscovery Institute
Wealth Valentine Intern with Imperial College Health Partners
Stephanie Verissimo Intern with 51±¬ÁÏÍø Information and Research Governance
Shalom Vic-Jumbo Shalom is an intern with 51±¬ÁÏÍø
Leny Vinceslas Intern with 51±¬ÁÏÍø

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