Gunnar Ro
Statistician
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolGunnar Ro is an experienced statistician and software developer with 16 years of applying quantitative methods and engineering to public health systems. Based in Helsinki, he has led development and implementation of case-based surveillance platforms used by WHO, Ministries of Health and UNICEF across Jordan, Madagascar and Somalia, scaling national deployments to hundreds of clinics. His background spans theoretical physics (MPhys, PhD work) to an MSc in Epidemiology, giving him a rare combination of mathematical rigor and practical epidemiological insight. Gunnar has held roles from developer and CTO to senior statistician, delivering end-to-end solutions—from database and interface design to field deployment and staff training in low-resource settings. He is particularly skilled at turning complex surveillance requirements into operational, visualised analytics that inform public health decisions.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Epidemiology, Msc, Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of LondonMaster of Physics(MPhys), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Master of Physics(MPhys), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at University of Durham
Norwegian, Swedish, English
Github Skills (15)
flask-application10
flask8
web-application8
python7
api6
query-language6
hierarchical5
stan4
database4
sql4
spread3
machine-learning3
data-storage3
temporal-data2
openmrs1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fjelltopp/meerkat_api
Oct 2015 - Mar 2019
The Application Programming Interface (API) to query data
Contributions:135 PRs, 360 pushes, 75 branches in 3 years 5 months
queryapiapi-interfacesqlquery-language
uamuzibora/labs
Jun 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 4 months
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