Noella is Currently the Deputy Director General at Rwanda Biomedical Centre.

Prior to this position, she was leading the Research, Innovation and Data Science Division at Rwanda Biomedical Centre – Rwanda’s national health implementation agency – which coordinates national health programs, including the COVID-19 response.

Noella previously served as a Precision Medicine Fellow at the World Economic Forum, where she focused on co-designing policy and governance approaches to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies such as precision medicine and AI/Machine Learning in low-resource settings. She has previously worked as consultant for WHO and USAID-funded projects in Rwanda and Guinea-Conakry in the post-Ebola period.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Biology, Health and Society from Cornell University, and a Master’s degree in International Health Policy and Management from the Heller School at Brandeis University.