Curriculum Vitae

Yves Amevoin

I am a biostatistician and data scientist. I have worked on providing evidence for public health decisions, in humanitarian and research settings. I work on designing data collection tools and sampling strategies as well as providing technical support for clinical trials, outbreak surveillance and cohort studies. My working languages are French and English, and I am based near Paris.


Experience

Consultant, Data Analyst

PARIS21, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

– Now (6 months)

I deliver the analytical work behind a comparative evidence platform on national statistical strategies. I curate and validate the corpus of country documents so they can be compared on equal terms, design the framework for turning policy questions into structured and traceable evidence, and I work on producing the reports and dashboard prototypes for dissemination. The work runs against a contracted schedule of deliverables reviewed by the Secretariat.

Statistician and Data Scientist

Epicentre, research centre of Médecins Sans Frontières

– Now (about 6 years)

I work on communicable-disease research and outbreak surveillance across West and Central Africa. I design the sampling for multi-country field studies, contribute to their analysis plans and final analyses, and analyse clinical trials in neglected tropical diseases. Alongside the studies I build the tools used in the process: surveillance data capture systems, statistical packages in R and Stata, and applications for automate reporting. I have been deployed to outbreak responses to set up real-time analytics and to train the national teams, and I give regular R trainings.

Built

OutbreakTools VBA Excel

An Excel-based linelist designer for disease surveillance: define the data structure in a setup file, integrate geographic data, and generate ready-to-use linelists for outbreak response.

epitemplates R Quarto

An R package that centralises R Markdown and Quarto templates for Epicentre: branded reports, books and presentations from RStudio.

Statistician

Médecins Sans Frontières, Regional Office

– (over 1 year)

Regional statistician for operations in four West and Central African countries. I managed and validated the data coming in from the field, delivered the analytical reports for medical and operational teams, and set up the regional frameworks for collecting and reporting health data. I worked on a population-based mortality survey from end to end — protocol and sampling design, ethics approval, enumerator training, fieldwork with daily quality monitoring, analysis, and delivery of the results to the mission and the ministry of health — and built statistical packages adopted for data management.

Consultant

International Food Policy Research Institute

– (5 months)

Short consultancy on a regional programme covering ten West African countries. I collected and harmonised national data sources into a single analytical framework, wrote the country analytical reports for policymakers and development partners, and built economic models used for policy scenario analysis.

Consultant

Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA) and CIRAD

– (5 months)

My first consultancy, in veterinary and public health research. I worked on vector-borne disease risk at territorial level and produced national risk maps used to target surveillance; digitalised the field data collection. The work led to one peer-reviewed publication.


Education

Master in Mathematical Statistics

University of Rennes 1, France

Thesis supervised by Prof. Gilles Stupfler.

Engineer Degree in Statistics

ENSAE-Dakar (National School of Statistics and Economic Analysis), Senegal

Thesis: Application of model selection to rice yield gap surveys, supervised by Dr. Ibnou Dieng.

Bachelor in Mathematics

University of Lomé, Togo


Skills

  • Programming: R, Shiny, R Markdown, Quarto, SQL, Stata, VBA
  • Data Science: Statistical modelling, data visualization, survey design
  • Geospatial: Spatial analysis, QGIS, satellite imagery
  • Tools: Git, Github, Claude