Dr. Sieka is a public health physician with strong interest in infectious disease research and the use of data for decision making at the various tiers of our health system. He is interested in training the next generation of clinicians, scientists and researchers, and data scientists. He has had mid-level managerial assignments as County Health Officer in River Gee County and Grand Bassa County, two political subdivisions in Liberia. During those assignments, Dr. Sieka was responsible for overseeing partially decentralized health systems. However, one of the major challenges was the use of the data collected for planning and decision making. He noticed a lack of the capacity at the sub-national level. In order to mitigate the challenge described above, Dr. Sieka joined a team of like-minded professionals at the University of Liberia’s flagship public health training institution to respond to the request for proposal to establish a data science hub at the College of Health Sciences. His main duty at the College of Health Sciences is Director of Research in the Office of Sponsored Research Services. In this position, he is responsible to work with other scientists, institutions such as the Ministry of Health and the National Public Health Institute and thereby foster research collaboration with the University of Liberia. He is currently co-teaching Biostatistics and Epidemiology with colleagues at the College of Health Sciences and mentoring a cohort of public health students. My research interests include large-scale clinical trials on interventions for infectious diseases prevalent in Liberia.