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  3. Health Data Science Black Internship Programme

Class of 2026

The Black Internship Programme is helping transform the prospects of, and provide opportunities for, early career Black people in the UK, enabling them to flourish in health data science careers. Here you can meet interns who have joined our sixth annual programme.

Tobi Abiodun Intern with UCLPartners
Yahya Abdalle Intern with Publich Health Wales
Nasir Abdulrasheed Intern with Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Saheed Adedeji Intern with the Department of Health and Social Care
Kehinde Adediran Intern at Department of Health and Social Care
Abigail (Ade) Adelani Intern with the HDR UK Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Programme
Casey Adomah Intern with Kings College London School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences
Ini Ajayi Intern with the Nuffield Trust
Adewunmi (Tesla) Akingbola Intern with Brunel University 
Esther Awofadeju Intern with Swansea University - UK MS Register 
Franklin Akinwande Intern with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Richard Arowolo Intern with BUPA
Maame Ama Bainson Intern with Teesside University
Munira Aminu Bello Intern with UCL Partners
Alfred Bartholomew Intern with Office for National Statistics
Nevin Boakye Intern with Cancer Research UK
Anita Bosibori Intern with UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Mahlet Burayu Intern with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Patricia Ca Intern with UK Dementia Research Institute - Ryten Lab
Victor Daniel Intern with Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Zipporah Daniel Intern with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Barbara Dokyi Intern with HDR UK
Priscillia Ejiro Intern with Lancashire and South Cumbria SDE
Udogwu Emiri Intern at NDPH, Oxford University 
Elizabeth Erhunmwunsee Intern with University of Leicester Real World Evidence Unit
Tobi Fadeyi Intern with East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Mariana Faty-Embalo Intern with UK Dementia Research Institute with University of Oxford
Tahira-Marie Gay Intern with UCL Great Ormond Street Institute 
Nagat Guled Intern with University of Bristol
Mia Gurure Intern with the National Institutes of Health Research, University of Newcastle
Onyinye Ifedinezi Intern at HDR UK Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Programme
Efetabo Ikaka Intern with HDRC Doncaster / City of Doncaster Council
Grace Ikpeme Intern with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Destiny Irimagha Intern with the University of Edinburgh 
Lois John Intern with NHS England
Albert Joseph Intern with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Oluwadarasimi Kalejaye Intern with HDR UK Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Programme (University of Manchester)
Christine Karieren Intern with Blood Cancer UK 
Sagal Khalid Intern with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London
Warith Kolawole Intern with Kings College London, School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences
Bernard Kyaluzi Intern with DaVita International
Khaliq Lamid  Intern with Newcastle City Council 
Uche Lever Intern with the Sickle Cell Society
Terence Makuvise Intern with the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC)
Samuel Mengistu Intern with Office National Statistics, Data Science and AI
Najma Moallin Intern with Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford
Iman Mohammadi  Intern with Wanda Health
Joseph Muganga Intern with Bupa
Ibrahim Abdullahi Naseer Intern with Dementia Research Institute
Chioma Nwanze Intern with NIHR Innovation Observatory
Siobhan Oghughu Intern with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Kikelomo Ogunjimi Intern with the Department of Health and Social Care
Lydia Ojeyemi Intern with UCL Great Ormond Street Child Institute for Health
Jeremy Okundaye  Intern with the Department of Health and Social Care 
Kabir Olawore Intern with Northumbria University
Victor Olubiyi Intern with UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative and University of Exeter
John Olugbenga Intern with Public Health Wales
Omondi Othieno Intern with University of Glasgow
Maame Owusu-Ansah Intern with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London
Ayinde Oore-oluwa Precious Intern with DARE UK
Aishat Rabiu Intern with HDR UK (Brain Health) 
Stanley Saitet Intern with UK Health Security Agency
Destiny Snow Intern with Royal United Hospitals Bath 
Samuel Tekle  Intern with the Office National Statistics, Data Science and AI
Basil Chukwuemeka Udeh Intern with the Public Engagement in Data Research Initiative (PEDRI)
Clifford Ugwu Intern with Newcastle University (CNTW NHS Foundation Trust)
Lyeose Uhumuavbi Intern with NIHR BioResource
Shalom Vic-Jumbo Shalom is an intern with HDR UK
Leny Vinceslas Intern with HDR UK

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