ROBERT BALAMA

Employment

• National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme Data Manager
  2021 - Present
• Iringa Regional Referral Hospital Data Clerk
  2017 - 2021

Education

• College of Business Education Masters Degree in Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation
  2026 - 2028
• Mwenge Catholic University Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Statistics
  2013 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (11)

• Regional trends in childhood tuberculosis case notification and treatment outcomes: Tanzania, 2018–2023
  Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctube.2026.100640
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• Success rates of DR-TB patients and associated factors in Tanzania: a six-year cohort study
  BMC Infectious Diseases 2026 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-12599-x
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• Disparity of 6-month treatment outcomes between Clinically Diagnosed and Bacteriologically Confirmed Tuberculosis Patients in Mainland Tanzania: A Retrospective Cohort Study
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7383971
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• Mortality disparities among children and adolescents with tuberculosis in Tanzania Mainland from January 2023 to December 2023: A retrospective cohort study
  PLOS Global Public Health 2025 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0005184
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• Predictors of mortality and treatment failure in tuberculosis patients enrolled in the tuberculosis and leprosy program in mainland Tanzania: a retrospective cohort study
  Bulletin of the National Research Centre 2025 DOI: 10.1186/s42269-025-01373-9
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• Tuberculosis service delivery challenges and their mitigations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania: a qualitative study
  BMJ Open 2025 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-094564
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• Tuberculosis services delivery challenges and their mitigations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania: A qualitative study
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.19.25324251
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• Burden of leprosy and associated risk factors for disabilities in Tanzania from 2017 to 2020
  George Mrema, Ally Kassim Hussein, Welema Magoge

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  • Vida Makundi Mmbaga
  • Azma Ayoub Simba
  • Robert Balama
  • Emmanuel Nkiligi
  • Paul Shunda
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  PLOS ONE 2024 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311676
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• Magnitude and trends of tuberculosis in Dodoma Region, Tanzania, 2018-2021
  Journal of interventional epidemiology and public health 2024
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• The pattern of rpoB gene mutation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and predictors of rifampicin resistance detected by GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay in Tanzania
  PLOS ONE 2024 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296563
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• Predictors of mortality among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients after decentralization of services in Tanzania from 2017 to 2019: retrospective cohort study
  Bulletin of the National Research Centre 2024 DOI: 10.1186/s42269-024-01235-w
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