Mduduzi Ndlovu

Health economics, public health, evaluation, and analytics professional with 15+ years of experience generating and translating economic and analytical evidence into policy, funding, and programme decisions across HIV/AIDS, donor-funded programmes, and health systems strengthening. Expertise in economic evaluation, decision modelling, cost-effectiveness and budget impact analysis, costing, and strategic resource allocation, complemented by a strong track record of building analytical capacity and strengthening evidence-informed decision-making. Advanced proficiency in Excel, R, Power BI, Tableau, TreeAge, DHIS2, DATIM, TIER.Net, and REDCap.

Data Analytics, Monitoring and Evaluation Lead at US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC South Africa) (2024-06 – Present)

• Lead analytics, monitoring, and evaluation functions across CDC-supported public health programmes, translating multi-source data into implementation, funding, and programme performance decisions.
• Oversee analytics strategy, dashboard development, data quality assurance, and generation of evidence products for technical teams and senior leadership.
• Spearheaded, beyond core role responsibilities, an economic evaluation capacity-building initiative for CDC HIV programme staff, designing and delivering training to strengthen the use of economic evidence in programme planning and decision-making.
• Helped institutionalize economic evaluation as a required component of all CDC South Africa partner Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plans (EPMPs).
• Strengthening partner and national data systems while advancing data governance, reporting quality, and evidence-informed decision-making across programmes.
• Support evaluation design, learning reviews, and CDC data modernisation priorities with government and technical stakeholders in complex donor-funded environments.

Monitoring and Evaluation Team Lead at US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC South Africa) (2018-12 – 2024-06)

• Led operational implementation of PEPFAR monitoring and reporting systems across CDC-supported partners, including quarterly, semiannual, and annual reporting cycles for multiple technical and management audiences.
• Implemented CDC South Africa's Data Quality Strategy through DQAs, RDQAs, discrepancy resolution, and partner-facing data-use improvement support.
• Provided advanced analytics and visualisation support using Excel, Power BI, Tableau, DHIS2, DATIM and TIER.Net.
• Led COP target-setting and performance review processes, using evidence to inform programme adjustments, resource prioritisation, and senior decision-making.
• Represented CDC in USG and NDoH forums and contributed to technical working groups focused on strategic information, reporting quality, systems strengthening, and cross-stakeholder coordination.
• Applied TreeAge for economic decision modelling and trained CDC colleagues in its use.

Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC South Africa) (2014-01 – 2018-12)

• Strengthened national and partner monitoring and evaluation systems for HIV programmes and supported uptake of revised reporting frameworks.
• Provided technical support to NDoH and implementing partners on data use, reporting quality, and interpretation of programme results.
• Contributed to evaluation-related activities, performance analysis, technical summaries, and measurement-framework strengthening for strategic and operational stakeholders.

Health Information Systems Fellow at US CDC Headquarters (2017-04 – 2017-07)

• Contributed to the development of the CDC HIS Maturity Model and related assessment tools for data-system strengthening.
• Supported materials and approaches used to assess and improve information-system maturity across country programmes.

Research Manager at National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA) (2011-02 – 2013-12)

• Led two rounds of the National AIDS Spending Assessment and coordinated implementation of the national HIV research agenda.
• Served as NERCHA's lead counterpart for the HIV/AIDS Programme Sustainability Analysis Tool (HAPSAT), leading country data inputs and validation and contributing technical expertise to collaborative HIV programme sustainability analyses.
• Conducted costing, resource tracking, funding gap analysis, and evidence synthesis to inform planning, donor dialogue, policy support, and sustainability discussions.
• Managed stakeholder coordination across government, partners, and researchers to strengthen evidence use in national decision-making.

Manager - HIV/AIDS Programme Monitoring System (SHAPMoS) at National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA) (2004-06 – 2008-12)

• Led national rollout of SHAPMoS and built reporting and data-use capacity across implementing partners and programme stakeholders.
• Strengthened alignment between organisational M&E systems and the national framework, promoting use of HIV data for planning and coordination.

Project Evaluator at Royal Women's Hospital (2010-01 – 2010-12)

Designed and implemented a summative evaluation framework, collected quantitative and qualitative data, and presented findings to leadership.

Evaluation Fellow at UNESCO Headquarters (2005-01 – 2005-12)

Developed evaluation protocols, tools, and methodologies and prepared technical summaries for global evaluation work.

Master of Science (MSc) in Health Economics and Health Policy – Brunel University London (2025)

Master of Public Health (MPH) in Programme and Economic Evaluation – University of Melbourne (2010)

Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences in Economics and Geography – University of Eswatini (2002)