Dr GG Mwanga

Name
Gasper Godson Mwanga

Academic Rank
Senior Lecturer

Department
Physics, Mathematics & Informatics(PMI)

Biography

Biography

Dr. Gasper Godsom Mwanga is an applied mathematician whose research bridges theoretical rigor with real-world application. He develops mathematical models that balance realism and tractability, drawing on mathematics, statistics, and computational science to address complex problems in the natural and health sciences. Using ordinary differential equations and optimal control theory, he studies nonlinear dynamical systems that describe the transmission and control of infectious diseases of public health and socio-economic importance.

Dr. Mwanga’s work spans human, animal, and plant diseases, including Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Brucellosis, Helminth infections, Mycobacterium, rotavirus, Banana Xanthomonas Wilt, Cassava Brown Streak, and Newcastle Disease. Committed to interdisciplinary collaboration, he produces robust, evidence-based insights that inform effective disease management strategies. He serves as a reviewer for several international journals and has co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications, advancing the frontiers of mathematical epidemiology and applied modeling. As a university lecturer, he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervises several master’s and PhD students.

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gasper.mwanga@duce.ac.tz

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Research Interest

Research Interest
My research area is in Applied Mathematics with a specific interest in: Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Biology and Optimal Control Theory

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Publications

Publications

  1. Mwanga, G. G., (2025) Mathematical modelling and optimal control of malaria transmission withantimalarial drug and insecticide resistance. 

  2. Kyaruzi, F., González-Martín, A. S., Mwanga, G. G., & Kihaga, H. (2024). Trend and Issues in the Training of Secondary School Mathematics Teachers in Tanzania: The Relevance of Advanced Mathematics Courses for Teacher Trainees. In Mathematics Teacher Training and Development in Africa: Trends at Primary and Secondary School Levels (pp. 1-19). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

  3. González-Martin, A. S., Kyaruzi, F., Mwanga, G., & Kihaga, H. (2023, July). The relevance of advanced mathematics courses for secondary school mathematics teachers: Voices of Tanzanian teachers. In Thirteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME13) (No. 18). 

  4. Mwanga, G. G. (2022). Mathematical Modelling of Syphilis Transmission Dynamics: Impacts of Mass Media Report, Risky Sexual Behavior and Treatment. Tanzania Journal of Science, 48(1), 196-212.

  5. Mapinda, J. J., Mwanga, G. G., Nyerere, N., & Masanja, V. G. (2022). A mathematical Model to assess the Role of Neglected Control Techniques in the Dynamics of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt Disease. International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering, 8(1).  DOI: 10.31695/IJASRE.2022.8.1.12

  6.  * Ongodia, E., & Mwanga, G. G. (2020). Modelling Optimal Control of Heavy Alcohol Consumption on the Transmission Dynamics of HIV/AIDS. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences (JEHS), 9(2).

  7.  Chuma, F. M., & Mwanga, G. G. (2020). Bifurcation Analysis of Newcastle Disease Eco-epidemiological Model in the Presence of Vaccination: A Case of the Backyard Chicken. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences (JEHS), 9(2).

  8.  Lambura, A. G., Mwanga, G. G., Luboobi, L., & Kuznetsov, D. (2020). Mathematical model for optimal control of soil-transmitted helminth infection. Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2020.

  9.  Lambura, A. G., Mwanga, G. G., Luboobi, L., & Kuznetsov, D. (2020). Modeling the Effects of Helminth Infection on the Transmission Dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis under Optimal Control Strategies. Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2020.

  10.  Chuma, F., Mwanga, G. G., & Masanja, V. G. (2019). Application of optimal control theory to Newcastle disease dynamics in village chicken by considering wild birds as reservoir of disease virus. Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2019.

  11. Chuma, F. M., & Mwanga, G. G. (2019). Stability analysis of equilibrium points of newcastle disease model of village chicken in the presence of wild birds reservoir. International Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Computing, 5(2), 1-18.

  12.  Nannyonga, B., Mwanga, G. G., & Luboobi, L. S. (2015). An optimal control problem for ovine brucellosis with culling. Journal of biological dynamics, 9(1), 198-214.

  13. Gasper G. Mwanga, Heikki Haario  and Vicenzo Capasso (2015). Optimal control problems of  epidemic systems with parameter uncertainties: Application to a two-age-classes transmission model for malaria transmission with asymptomatic carriers. Mathematical biosciences, 261, 1-12

  14. Gasper G Mwanga, Betty K. Nannyonga and Heikki Haario (2014) Optimal control of malaria  model with drug resistance in presence of parameter uncertainty. Applied Mathematical Sciences,   Vol. 8, (55), 2701 – 2730.

  15. Betty Nannyonga, Gasper G Mwanga, Heikki Haario, Isambi S Mbalawata and Matti Heilio (2014). Determining parameter distribution in within-host severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria.  Biosystems, 126, 76-84.

  16. Mwanga, G. G., & Haario, H.. (2013). Optimal control of two age structured malaria model with model parameter uncertainty. In 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics.

  17. Mwanga, G. G., Haario, H., & Nannyonga, B. K. (2012). Spread of Antimalarial Drug Resistance in a Population with Superinfection. Applied Mathematical Sciences, 6(118), 5877-5900.

  18. Mwanga, G. G., & Ndogmo, J. C. (2005). Hedging of financial derivatives and portfolio insurance. African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 4(12), 56-87.