About
Small by design.
Quantium Insights LLC is a specialist analytics practice registered in Silver Spring, Maryland, working with governments, United Nations agencies, universities and funders on questions where the evidence has to hold up.
What we are
We are deliberately narrow. Rather than general data services, we concentrate on problems that recur in immunisation, HIV and epidemic response: estimating burden where it is not directly observed, targeting scarce resources across many small areas, forecasting where a programme is about to slip, and building tools that let a government team do those things without us.
That focus is why we can be held to research standards on a consulting timeline. Several methods we apply for clients were developed and published first: Bayesian subnational burden estimation and spatial clustering of key-population data both appeared in the peer-reviewed literature before they were deployed in a national immunisation programme.
The practice works through two companies under common ownership. Quantium Insights LLC, registered in Maryland, leads international engagements. Its Nigerian affiliate, Quantium Insights Nig Limited (RC 9394620), was incorporated with the Corporate Affairs Commission in March 2026 and is based in Makurdi, Benue State. It contracts with clients in Nigeria. They are separate legal entities, and each signs its own agreements.
We work through consortia when an engagement needs it. Nigeria's national zero-dose programme was delivered jointly with CIDRE by a seven-person team including a co-principal investigator and an implementation science lead.
Leadership
FounderPrincipal consultant
15+ yearsGlobal health analytics
English, Igbo, HausaWorking languages
ORCID0000-0002-7133-3318
Dr Amobi Andrew Onovo, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and data scientist who has spent more than fifteen years directing evidence toward high-stakes resource decisions across sub-Saharan Africa. In 2026 he was Principal Investigator of Nigeria's national zero-dose predictive modelling programme for NPHCDA with UNICEF and Gavi, across all 36 states, the Federal Capital Territory and 774 local government areas.
Before that he built UNICEF's integrated analytics framework for the AHEAD programme, directed quality metrics and reporting at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, and managed a $15 million USAID-PEPFAR agreement in Nigeria. His Bayesian HIV estimates in EClinicalMedicine were used by the PEPFAR interagency team and Nigeria's National Agency for the Control of AIDS.
Education
Profiles
PhD, Global Health
Bayesian and spatial modelling. Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Certificate in Public Health
Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), University of Geneva.
Applied Data Science Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: time-series modelling, recommendation systems, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, deep learning.
Postgraduate Diploma
Data Science and Business Analytics, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin.
MPH, Epidemiology
University of Calabar, Nigeria.
BTech, Biochemistry
Federal University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria.
Short courses
Machine learning, Wesleyan University (2019); GIS for health researchers (2017) and leadership and management in health (2014), University of Washington.
Where the experience comes from
Quantium Insights LLC
Epidemiologist, data scientist and principal consultant for UNICEF, Gavi, NPHCDA and research partners: analysis plans, modelling, performance assessment, model cards and procedures; directing a team of seven.
NPHCDA and UNICEF, Nigeria
Principal Investigator and AI consultant, national zero-dose predictive modelling: coverage forecasting, dropout risk classification and equity-stratified risk mapping across 774 LGAs; methods training for agency staff.
UNICEF, New York
HIV data scientist, integrated analytics consultancy for the AHEAD programme: 27 indicators in 8,871 facilities, multilevel inequity models, CUSUM early warning and a fourteen-dimension data-quality tool.
Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Technical Director, quality metrics and reporting, in the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research environment across five countries; geospatial targeting in Tanzania raised uptake by about 15%, and Lasso and geographically weighted regression mapped regional HIV drivers across its 31 regions.
USAID, Abuja
Activity Manager and data scientist for a $15 million USAID-PEPFAR agreement across thirty-plus organisations; survival and competing-risks analysis of a 497,620-patient cohort; national data validation standards.
University of Geneva
Doctoral research on Bayesian and spatial estimation of disease burden from incomplete survey and surveillance data.
Earlier practice
Field epidemiology, programme monitoring and health information systems with Pro-Health International, Management Strategies for Africa, the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria and IntraHealth International. His first public health role, in 2009, was as a volunteer independent supervisor for the World Health Organization, checking vaccine management and cold-chain records in Nigeria.
Technical Consultants
Dr Emeka F. Okechukwu
Twenty years across HIV, tuberculosis, maternal and child health, global health security, malaria, nutrition and primary health care. Formerly Director Technical and Deputy Chief of Party at FHI 360 Tanzania and lead of the Primary Impact programme. USAID Global Health Workforce Award, 2023.
Dr Justus Uzim
Eighteen years in DHIS2 and monitoring, evaluation, research and learning. Survey Technical Coordinator for Nigeria's National Mini Demographic and Health Survey 2026, previously Activity Manager for USAID-funded surveys including NDHS 2024, and M&E Specialist at USAID Nigeria across more than forty activities.
Work with us
A small number of engagements at a time. Start a conversation.
Each one gets principal-level attention.