Dr. Emmanuel Abraham Mpolya is a biostatistician and epidemiologist with a background in theoretical epidemiology, health economics, and computational biostatistics. Currently, his interests are in the analysis of longitudinal repeated measures data to understand the causal pathways related to interventions targeting HIV–AIDS. He is also currently affiliated with the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha, Tanzania, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.