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WHO Guidelines on Digital Health Interventions for RMNCAH and Health Systems Strengthening Biography of Guideline Development Group

Listed in alphabetical order -Final meeting to be held 6 to 8 June 2018

Name and Affiliation Biography

Smisha Agarwal, PhD, MPH, MBAAssociate Population Council Washington DC, USA

Smisha Agarwal is a population health scientist specializing in conducting impact evaluations of maternal and child health service delivery programs, including digital health interventions. Currently, she leads the Gates Foundation-‐supported Frontline Health project at the Population Council, focused on harmonizing metrics to monitor the performance of community health worker programs in 7 countries (Liberia, DRC, Mali, Kenya, Uganda, Bangladesh, Haiti) and developing a research agenda to address critical gaps in scaling community health worker projects globally. Previously, Dr Agarwal led the development of a series of Cochrane Reviews to support WHO guidelines on mobile/digital health investments. As Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative, she provided technical support in monitoring and evaluation to a number of digital health programs including MAMA in Bangladesh, cStock in Malawi, and MomConnect in South Africa. She is extensively published in the field of digital health, including in the JAMA and the BMJ. In collaboration with colleagues at Johns Hopkins and WHO, she has contributed to the development of the digital health field through the collaborative development of the mHealth Evidence Reporting and Assessment (mERA) guidelines and WHO’s Digital Health M&E Workbook.

Pascale Allotey, PhD, MMedSci Director, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-‐IIGH)Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Professor Pascale Allotey is the Director of the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-‐IIGH). She has a multidisciplinary background in clinical health sciences, anthropology, and epidemiology. Her community-‐based research has focused on equity and the health of populations marginalised gender, ethnicity, migration status, religion and poverty. The policy implications of this work have linked intersecting determinants of health to health systems, human rights and social justice. Recent research has explored implementation research in addressing solutions to diseases of poverty, non-‐communicable diseases and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Pascale has worked across four continents to promote health and well-‐being with a focus on engagement of communities. Prior to joining UNU, she served as Professor of Public Health and Deputy Head of the School of Medicine at Monash University (Malaysia) and founding Associate Director of the SEACO health observatory. She serves on several technical and governance bodies of international organisations and currently Chairs the Gender and Rights Panel for the Sexual and Reproductive Health Department of the WHO.

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Fazilah Shaik Allaudin, MD, MBASenior Deputy Director of Planning Division Ministry of Health Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dr Fazilah is presently the Senior Deputy Director of Planning Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia, a role she held since September 2017. Her responsibilities cover planning of Health Policies, Facility and eHealth. Prior to this, she was the Director of Telehealth Division from October 2016. She has been with the Ministry of Health for over 25 years. A significant portion of her career has been in managing and coordinating new health facility development projects, mainly Hospital Information Systems, eHealth strategic planning, ICT project management and implementation. In her current capacity, she is responsible for eHealth collaborations domestically, regionally and at international levels. At the international level, she is an active council member of Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) focused on strengthening health information systems across the region. She also leads the ICT for Malaysia Core Group of Joint Learning Network (JLN), an international network focused on achieving universal health coverage. Dr Fazilah holds an M.D. from the National University of Malaysia (1991) and an MBA from the University of Toledo, Ohio (1996). She is certified in TOGAF (Foundation), a certification in enterprise architecture and COBIT 5.0 (Implementation), certification in governance and management of enterprise IT.

Sean Blaschke, MIARegional Technology for Development Business Analyst Unicef Regional Office Eastern and Southern Africa Nairobi, Kenya

Sean Blaschke currently serves as UNICEF’s Regional Technology for Development Business Analyst, covering 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, specialising in digital systems strengthening and developing organizational strategies for scaling up and institutionalizing innovative and technology enabled programmes. Mr. Blaschke led UNICEF support to developing Uganda’s eHealth Strategy and Policy, and establishing the national eHMIS, eIDSR, and eCRVS programmes. Mr. Blaschke has supported numerous other initiatives across the region, including establishing the digital CHW ANC programme in Rwanda, Anthrowatch in Malawi, and mVacc in Zambia, and coordinated UNICEF regional efforts including developing Community Health modules for iHRIS and Scorecards / Bottleneck Analysis decision support apps within DHIS2. During the West Africa Ebola outbreak, Mr. Blaschke led a multi-‐agency team to establish the mHero platform which initially scaled in Liberia. Finally, Mr. Blaschke is a published writer and has been a featured presenter at numerous high profile conferences, including the mHealth Summit, ITU World Telecom, and SXSW.

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Subhash Chandir, MBBS, MPH, PhD Director of Maternal & Child Health Interactive Research & Development Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dr Subhash Chandir is an Epidemiologist and Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Director of Maternal & Child Health at Interactive Research & Development (IRD). He received his medical degree from Pakistan, and his Masters in Public Health and a doctorate in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control from Johns Hopkins University. For over 14 years, Subhash has conducted or participated in various studies and projects in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Ecuador, USA, and UAE. Subhash’s work is focused towards Maternal & Child Health research and service delivery. And Subhash’s research and teaching efforts are directed towards infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine-‐preventable diseases, digital health interventions, economic incentives, and empowering the health workforce. Subhash is an advocate mHealth and his research and implementation evidence has helped shaped policies and practices strengthening government health systems. Subhash’s work on digital health projects include phone-‐based immunization registry, machine learning to improve client adherence to treatment regimen, GSM-‐based geographic information system (GIS) tracking of health workers, pregnancy e-‐registry and reminders for antenatal care (ANC) visits, electronic version of integrated management of childhood illnesses, mobile phone-‐based conditional cash transfers for healthy behaviors, performance-‐based incentives through mobile money transfers for vaccinators etc.

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Walter Curioso, PhD, MD, MPH Vice-‐minister Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion Lima, Peru

Dr. Curioso has more than 17 years of professional experience at the public and private sector on electronic government. He has lead the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects at the national level related to the use and application of information and communication technologies in health, education and social development. He is an international consultant on electronic health and education, mobile health and education, and telemedicine for institutions including CEPAL -‐ United Nations, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Inter-‐American Development Bank (IABD). Dr. Curioso has experience in public management, with emphasis on the development and implementation of informatics regulation, information security and the development of flagship projects in information and communication technologies (ICT) such as the On-‐Line Registration of Certificates of Live Births, Telemedicine, Electronic Health Records and Multisectoral Georeferenced System at the national level. He is Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education in the School of Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. Dr. Curioso has more than 120 publications, including peer-‐reviewed articles in indexed journals and book chapters related to ICT, information systems and training programs on information technologies.

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Shrey Desai, MBBS, MD, MPH Head, Community Outreach Society for Education Welfare and Action (SEWA)-‐Rural Gujarat, India Jhagadia, India

Dr Desai is a researcher and internist at a non-‐profit organization in India, SEWA Rural, since 2010. After graduating from medical school in India, Dr Desai moved to the US and did MD-‐Internal Medicine. After practicing medicine for couple of years, he joined the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore where he completed MPH. He returned to India in 2010 and has been working at SEWA Rural since then along with his gynecologist wife and 2 beautiful children. SEWA Rural is a voluntary development organization involved in health and development activities in rural, tribal areas in southern Gujarat since 1980 Dr Desai is part of a multi-‐disciplinary team which developed, implemented and evaluated a mHealth intervention in partnership with the Gujarat state government. The mHealth intervention is operational in 3 districts of Gujarat, India since 2014. The team conducted a cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the mHealth intervention in collaboration of the Indian Council of Medical Research and WHO. The project has published peer reviewed papers and have received many awards. The Gujarat government, along with other partners are now scaling up the mHealth intervention in the entire state to reach 60 million people by December, 2018.

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Vajira H.W. Dissanayake, MBBS, PhD President, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka Chairman, Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health Colombo, Sri Lanka

Prof. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake is the Chair Professor of Anatomy; Director, Human Genetics Unit; and Chairperson, Specialty Board in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was one of the Founders of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL) in 1998. He is currently the President of HISSL. He is a Past President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) and the current (2016 -‐ 2019) President of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA). The specialty board in Biomedical informatics that he founded in 2008, has been responsible for graduating 104 doctors with master’s degrees in Biomedical Informatics since 2010. They are now serving as Medical Officers in Health Informatics in various parts of Sri Lanka spearheading the implementation of various Digital Health initiatives. Under his leadership the Board established a MD in Health Informatics programme leading to Board Certification in Health Informatics paving the way for producing Board Certified Specialist in Health Informatics in Sri Lanka by 2020. Thus making Sri Lanka only the second country in the world after USA to recognised Health Informatics as a medical specialty. 49 doctors are now training in the MD programme. He is a Working Council Member of the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), President Elect of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Informatics (AeHIN), and HISSL’s representative of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). As President of the CMA he is now involved in spearheading a commonwealth wide digital health initiative as the Chairman of the Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health established in 2018 in London, UK.

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Frederik Frøen, MD, PhD Head of Research, Global Health Cluster Norwegian Institute of Public Health Oslo, Norway

Dr Frøen, is the Head of Research at the Global Health Cluster of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, as well as the head of the reproductive, maternal and child health (RMNCH) team there. He is Director of the eRegistries Initiative and responsible for all aspects of research and implementation, overseeing the integration and integrity of the research and implementation phases of the various projects. He is an ERC Consolidator Grantee, and founding partner and member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Norwegian Research Council’s Center of Excellence “Center for Intervention Science for Maternal and Child Health” (CISMAC) at the University of Bergen, a center specializing in population-‐scale randomized controlled trials for RMNCH in low and middle income settings. He has served on several WHO committees for mHealth, perinatal mortality classification, and verbal autopsy. He was a cofounder and former chair of the International Stillbirth Alliance, as well as an executive committee member and lead author of both the Lancet Stillbirth series (2011) and the Lancet Ending Preventable Stillbirths series (2015). He is a former Fulbright visiting professor of maternal-‐fetal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA and visiting lecturer in obstetrics at Harvard Medical School. He received PhDs in pediatrics and obstetrics from the University of Oslo.

Skye Gilbert, MBA Deputy Director, Digital Health Solutions PATH Seattle, Washington-‐USA

Skye Gilbert joined PATH in 2016 as deputy director of PATH's Digital Health program. Skye leads Digital Health’s strategy, business development, adaptive management and data use efforts. Digital Health’s portfolio in this space includes the Data Use Partnership in Tanzania, which is supporting end-‐to-‐end digital transformation of Tanzania’s health system, digital support to BID Initiative—which is analysing Tanzania’s >200K patient dataset to improve medical supply chains and clinical outreach, and Digital Square-‐ which aims to strengthen the digital ecosystem by providing high-‐quality, sustainable digital global goods to countries that need them. Prior to joining PATH, Skye worked on health and information systems, first as an academic researcher living in Senegal and China, then as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, and finally as a program and strategy officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Skye has a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD and bachelor degrees in economics, international studies, and psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Rajendra Pratap Gupta, MA Advisor Union Ministry of Health New Delhi, India

Mr Gupta has worked in the area of healthcare policy formulation and served on various committees for digital health globally and in India. He was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council (Digital Health) for 2012-‐2014. Have served as a technical advisor -‐Expert Advisory Group, PMNCH for the mHealth / ICT Readiness Workbook and serve various committees in the Government of India for mHealth / digital health standards formulation. Chaired the committee set up by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India for setting up of the IHIN (India Health Information Network). Was a co-‐author for a chapter in the WHO report “Global diffusion of eHealth: Making universal health coverage achievable”. Report of the third global survey on eHealth.

Robert S H Istepanian, MSc., PhD Visiting Professor Institute of Global Health Innovation Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Prof Robert Istepanian is a visiting professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College, London. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities and pioneers of mobile healthcare and the first scientist to have coined and defined the concept of ‘m-‐Health’. He held senior academic and research posts in the UK and Canada including professorships at Kingston University, London; visiting professor at St. George’s Medical school, University of London, and associate professorships at universities of Portsmouth, Brunel University, UK and Ryerson University, Toronto with adjunct professorship at the University of West Ontario, Canada. He was the Leverhulme ‘distinguished visiting fellow at the centre for global e-‐Health innovation’, University of Toronto. He has led numerous funded research projects on m-‐Health, e-‐Health and telehealth, funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the European Commission, the British Council, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering. He served on numerous expert panels on mobile/digital health in UK, Ireland, Finland and Canada. He also served as the vice-‐chair of (ITU) focus group on standardization of machine-‐to-‐machine (M2M) for e-‐health. He has published more than 200 papers and books, including a new book on mobile health.

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Oommen John, MD, MBA Senior Research Fellow The George Institute for Global Health New Delhi, India

Dr Oommen John is an Internist, specialized in Internal Medicine from Christian Medical College, Ludhiana and an Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing health information systems and leading public health interventions in low and middle-‐income country settings. His interests and expertise are in areas of applying design thinking, developing and evaluating digital health interventions for health systems strengthening in the LMIC settings. At the George Institute for Global Health, he leads a programme of research using information systems for strengthening clinical care delivery, including the Dialysis Outcomes Study and India Dialysis Registry, an online monitoring platform which is being implemented in several Indian states in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research. He leads the engagement as knowledge partner to the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India for the implementation of a quality assurance programme in dialysis provision and the citizen owned Electronic Health Records Initiative.

Karin Kallander, PhD, MSc Senior Research Advisor Malaria Consortium London, United Kingdom

Dr Karin Källander is senior research advisor at Malaria Consortium in London, UK, one of the world’s leading non-‐profit organisations specialising in the prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases. Dr Källander is leading the organisation’s research group, leading and guiding research and evaluations in the areas of maternal, neonatal and child health, including digital innovations for effective health service delivery. She is a specialist in health systems research, child health epidemiology, and community-‐based primary healthcare, and holds an associate professorship at the division of Global Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She has been a member of several expert review groups, including the WHO mHealth Technical and Evidence Review Group (mTERG) and the development of WHO guidelines on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes. Dr Källander has over 15 years’ experience as researcher, lecturer, programme coordinator, and consultant in both development and emergency settings, whereof seven years living in an African low-‐income country. She has a deep understanding of the health sector and working with governments and policy makers to achieve desired outcomes for health system strengthening. She has a Master’s degree in molecular biology and doctoral degree in international health.

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Gibson Kibiki, MD, Mmed, PhD Executive Secretary East African Health Research Commission Njombe, Tanzania

Gibson Kibiki is the Executive Secretary of the East African Health Research Commission (EAHRC) of the East African Community (EAC) www.eac.int EAHRC is established as a mechanism for making available to the East African Community advice upon all matters of health and health-‐related research. It provides guidance on knowledge generation, technological development, policy formulation, practice, and related matters. At EAC, Gibson has led the establishment of the Digital Regional East African Community Health (Digital REACH) Initiative. It is a regional initiative that aims at scaling uptake and utilization of digital technology for improvement of healthcare service delivery and health outcomes. The Initiative has been approved for implementation by the EAC council of ministers of health, and endorsed by the presidents of the six EAC countries. Gibson is a professor of medicine, a consultant physician/endoscopist, a researcher, and a leader with broad experience in health. Prior to joining EAC, he led the establishment of Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute (KCRI) www.kcri.ac.tz as an academic centre for evidence-‐based health interventions. At KCRI, he established digitally-‐driven data and laboratory information management systems. At KCMC he was a member of the committee that led to full integration of digital technology into the undergraduate training program.

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Alain Labrique, PhD, MHS, MS Associate Professor, Global Disease Epidemiology and Control Program Department of International Health & Director, Global mHealth Initiative (GmI) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, USA

Dr Alain Labrique is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, a multi-‐disciplinary Center of Excellence of over 150 projects engaged in digital health innovation and research across the Johns Hopkins system. An infectious disease epidemiologist with two decades of field experience running large population-‐based research studies in low and middle-‐income countries, Dr Labrique holds joint appointments in the Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Department of Community-‐Public Health in the School of Nursing and the Division of Health Informatics and Bioengineering at the School of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University. In addition to teaching courses on Digital and Global Health, Labrique is lead investigator for research projects measuring the impact of information and communications technologies on health system strengthening. Dr Labrique was recognized as a “Top 11 mHealth Innovators” in 2011 by the Rockefeller Foundation and the UN Foundation and was a lead author on a Bellagio Declaration on mHealth Evidence. In 2018, he received a Excellence in Global Public Health Practice Award and a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Johns Hopkins University. His work on Digital Health remains among the most cited resources in the peer-‐reviewed literature. Labrique has authored nearly 200 publications in high-‐impact journals, as well as several book chapters and technical guidelines / toolkits on Digital Health, M&E methodologies and emerging infectious diseases. Labrique serves as a Digital Health and Technical Advisor to several international and global health agencies and Ministries of Health. Dr Labrique serves as the current Chair of the WHO mHealth Technical Evidence Review Group (mTERG).

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Amnesty E. LeFevre Honorary Associate Professor University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

Dr Amnesty LeFevre has over 15 years of experience conducting large scale evaluations of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health programs in over 20 low-‐ and middle-‐income countries globally. Since 2012, she has focused exclusively on the evaluation of digital health solutions, including work at three levels: (1) globally to standardize evidence reporting and develop monitoring and evaluation guidelines for digital health; (2) at a country level to evaluate large scale deployments of digital health solutions; and (3) sub-‐nationally, to deploy and evaluate small scale deployments of digital health solutions, including the development of decision-‐support tools for frontline health workers. In 2018, she co-‐edited a special supplement synthesizing evidence and lessons learned from MomConnect in South Africa with the National Department of Health. In 2019, a similar supplement will be published synthesizing evidence and learnings from the deployment of two large scale mHealth programs in India: Kilkari and Mobile Academy. In India, she is also working with the National Health Systems Resource Centre to establish a Community of Research and Practice for Digital Health– the first task of which will be to create impartial grading criteria for evaluating which digital tools for frontline health workers are most appropriate for scaling up in India. Beyond her research portfolio, Dr. LeFevre teaches a course on the monitoring and evaluation of digital health solutions to graduate students at the University of Cape Town.

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Alvin Marcelo, MD Executive Director, Asian eHealth Network University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines

Dr Alvin B. Marcelo is a general and trauma surgeon by training who is currently executive director of the Asia eHealth Information Network (www.aehin.org). Prior to this, he served as senior vice-‐president and chief information officer of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). As the director of the University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center and chief of the Medical Informatics Unit, Dr Marcelo established the Master of Science in Health Informatics program and conducted local and international research in the field of eHealth and health information systems development. He took his postdoctoral fellowship in medical informatics at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland with research interests in telepathology, mobile computing, and bibliometric analysis of MEDLINE content. Dr Marcelo also manages the International Open Source Network for ASEAN+3, a centre of excellence in free and/or open source software established by UNDP, and advises the Community Health Information Tracking System (or CHITS), a Stockholm Challenge finalist in the health category in 2006. He is the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). Dr Marcelo is certified in the governance of enterprise IT (CGEIT -‐ www.isaca.org), The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF -‐ www.opengroup.org), and Archimate, and COBIT5 Implementation.

Honorati Masanja, PhD, MSc Chief Executive Officer & Chief Research Scientist Ifakara Health Institute Dar es Salaam, United Republic Of Tanzania

Dr Honorati Masanja is a Chief Research Scientist at Ifakara Health Institute (IHI). He is also the Chief Executive Director of IHI. Dr Masanja has over twenty years’ experience in conducting health research mostly in Tanzania. He has conducted research focusing on malaria, nutrition, measurement of mortality and causes of deaths. He has particular interest in the design and conduct of randomized control trials; evaluation of maternal, newborn and child health intervention trials; nutrition studies, measurement of mortality and inequalities in health outcomes. Dr Masanja is currently evaluating the use of mobile phone surveys for non-‐communicable diseases (NCDs) risk factor surveys and assessing the feasibility, quality, and validity of NCD mobile phone surveys. Dr Masanja received his training at the University of Dar es Salaam (1988-‐1992) where he received his BSc in Mathematics and Statistics. He later received his Masters in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1994-‐1995) and a Doctor of Philosophy (2006) from Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel.

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Patty Mechael, PhD, MHS Co-‐founder and Policy Lead Health.Enabled Washington DC, USA

Dr Patricia (Patty) Mechael is co-‐founder and policy lead at HealthEnabled, a South African based non-‐profit focused on nationally scaled integrated digital health systems. With over 20 years working in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and over 75 publications on various aspects of digital health, Patty is recognized for her roles as a thought leader, writer, researcher, professor and executive director of the mHealth Alliance and executive vice president of the Personal Connected Health Alliance at HIMSS. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Knowledge for the World Distinguished Alumnus Award Recipient, British Council UK Education Social Impact Award Recipient, editorial board member of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, and co-‐editor of mHealth in Practice: Mobile technology for health promotion in the developing world. Dr Mechael holds a PhD in Public Health and Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Masters in Health Science in International Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Marc Mitchell, M.D Founder and President, D-‐Tree International Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health Berkeley, California

Dr Marc Mitchell, Founder and President of D-‐Tree International, Adjunct Lecturer on Global Health at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health is a pediatrician and management specialist who has worked in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on the design and delivery of health care services. Dr Mitchell began his international career as a pediatrician at a hospital in rural Tanzania. Since then, he has worked at every level of the health system including Assistant Secretary of Health in Papua New Guinea, advisor to the National Family Planning Program of Indonesia (BKKBN) and as a consultant to many international organizations including WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, USAID, and DFID. Dr Mitchell’s research is on the use of mobile technology to increase access to high quality health care for the world’s poor. In 2004 he founded D-‐tree International a global leader in digital health technology.

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Thomas Odeny, PhD,MBChB, MPH Research Scientist Kenyan Medical Research Institute Kisumu, Kenya

Dr Thomas Odeny am a medical doctor and a Research Scientist with the Kenya Medical Research Institute. His experience in designing theory-‐based text messages to support HIV prevention interventions puts him in a strategic position to participate in this digital health guideline development group. Specifically, he is currently PI for the, “Texting to Improve Testing (TextIT): A Cluster Randomized Stepped Wedge Trial of Text Messaging to Improve Postpartum Retention in Care and Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV” study. In this study, we are expanding an efficacious individually tailored, theory based, two way text messaging intervention to 20 health facilities in the high HIV prevalence Nyanza region of Kenya. Dr Odeny was Site Principal Investigator for an NIH R01 study on “Adaptive strategies to prevent and treat lapses in retention of HIV care,” where we aimed to assess the comparative effectiveness of sequenced intervention strategies (text messaging, transportation vouchers, and peer navigators) to prevent initial lapses in retention of HIV care and to treat those that occur.

Hermen Ormel, MA, MPH Senior Advisor Public Health Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Castricum, The Netherlands

Dr Ormel is a public health specialist with a background in social anthropology and has specialized in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights. His main areas of interest are capacity development, research and evaluation, digital health, community health and gender issues. He has worked on digital health issues over the past eight years, among others leading a DFID-‐funded impact evaluation study on mobile health for maternal health (Sierra Leone), developing lectures on mobile health (mHealth) for online courses of the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER), and developing online and blended methodologies for courses on public health. His institute is involved in other digital health work, such as developing and running courses on use of GIS to map health inequalities and testing the advanced use of digital health tools to improve TB case detection.

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Olasupo Oyedepo, BSEDirector African Alliance of Digital Health NetworkAbuja, Nigeria

Olasupo Oyedepo is currently the Project Director of the Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation’s ICT4HEALTH Project in Nigeria; the project was setup to provide technical assistance to the government to operationalize the first year of Nigeria’s National eHealth Strategy Action Plan. Before then he was the Country Director for the ICT4SOML Project, where he led the United Nation Foundation’s support to the Nigerian Federal Ministries of Health and Communication Technology in the development of the country’s National eHealth Strategy.

He is also playing a leadership role in the African Alliance of Digital Health Networks, as the Director. The African Alliance of Digital Health Networks is a peer learning network, established (with support from Digital Square@PATH) to provide coordinating support to existing digital health networks across the continent, to help to align and leverage the strengths of and lessons learned from those networks. He is particularly passionate about country leadership and governance of digital health investments and activities in LMICs.

Anshruta Raodeo, MBBS Candidate Director on Sexual and Reproductive Health including HIV/AIDS International Federation of Medical Students’ Associate MBBS Student, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Health Sciences Navi Mumbai Mumbai, India

Anshruta Raodeo is a final year MBBS student at MGM Medical College Navi Mumbai. She is currently serving as the Standing Committee Director for Sexual and Reproductive Health Including HIV/AIDS at the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations. She has a background in peer education disaster medicine from CRIMEDIM, University of Piedmont,Italy and has worked for the last few years on working towards addressing different aspects of disaster medicine. She has also conducted several trainings in the field of maternal health, access to safe abortion and SRHR.

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Chris Seebregts, PhD Chief Executive Officer and eHealth Director Jembi Health Systems Cape Town, South Africa

Dr Chris Seebregts has a background in biomedical research, computer science and information systems as well as more than twenty years of experience in the research and development of digital health solutions in the public, private and academic sectors. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jembi Health Systems NPC, a South African non-‐profit company with an accomplished track record developing and implementing innovative digital health systems in Africa. He has participated in establishing health informatics academic and training programmes at two universities in South Africa and is an honorary research associate in public health and family medicine at the university of Cape Town. He is part of the leadership of several international open source health informatics communities, including the Open Health Information Exchange (www.ohie.org) community. His research interests include biomedical and health informatics especially the development of health information systems supporting public health systems in Africa and the underlying burden of disease. He has a particular interest in the development of systems with a reusable architecture. As principal or co-‐Investigator on projects funded by international donors and funders, he has laid the groundwork for the development of advanced information systems supporting HIV/AIDS, TB, maternal and newborn health.

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Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD, MPHResearch Scholar Duke Global Health Institute Durham, USA

Dr Vasudevan is a global health researcher with expertise in maternal and child health, and digital health. Her current research focuses on the use of digital health interventions for improving childhood vaccine uptake in low-‐resource settings. Since 2012, Dr Vasudevan has served as an ad-‐hoc technical consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Reproductive Health and Research Department. In this capacity, she has provided technical assistance to United Nations Innovations Working Group grantees, contributed to development of the digital health classification, co-‐authored WHO’s monitoring and evaluation guide for digital health interventions, and served as a member of the mHealth Technical and Evidence Review Group. Of relevance to the guidelines development process, Dr Vasudevan is leading a systematic review on birth and death notification using mobile devices, and contributing to another review on digital client tracking systems.

Dr Vasudevan received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Cornell University, and Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2017, Dr Vasudevan received the Triangle Global Health Consortium’s “Ward Cates Emerging Leader in Global Health” award, which recognizes emerging leaders who show significant promise and commitment to improving the health of the world's communities.

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Hoda Wahba, MDVice PresidentAin Shams University Virtual HospitalCairo, Egypt

Hoda MF Wahba an associate professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology, and one of the team of founders of the department at Ain Shams University (ASU). The team are leaders in the MENA region to establish the first comprehensive medical service for senior citizens and undergraduate and postgraduate geriatrics and gerontology programs. Her community services with elders and caregivers and pre-‐university IT studies inspired her to launch the ‘Treat and Teach’ Telemedicine initiative. With two fellow colleagues at ASU she founded Ain Shams University Virtual Hospital (ASUVH); the first institutional Telemedicine and e-‐learning provider in the region serving Egypt, Arab countries and Africa. She is able to manage both academic (e-‐learning curricula, credit hours, CME etc.) and technical challenges (ICT, technology ignorance etc.) competently. As project manager of ASUVH protocols and telemedicine models are continually being developed to suite each medical specialty and diverse communities. She has more than a decade of experience in medical education and research. Currently, she is the project manager of ASUVH, a reviewer at the Royal College of Surgeons Journals and a reviewer at the ethical committee of the Faculty of Medicine, ASU. She leads teams efficiently with outstanding flexibility, commitment, innovation, passion and professionalism.

Maxine Whittaker, MBBS, PhDDeanJames Cook University College of Public HealthQueensland Australia

Professor Maxine Whittaker is Dean of the JCU CPHMVS. As a public health physician and health systems researcher she is focused on improving the health systems/services to increase accessibility and acceptability of quality services to populations. She was the Co-‐Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Information Systems until February 2016 and Director of the HIS Knowledge Hub for Australian Aid Programme. She has also lived/worked in Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Zambia, Zimbabwe and worked extensively in China, Fiji, Indonesia, Kenya, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. She has more than 30 years experience in programme design and implementation research especially in RMNCH, with national governments, research institutions, international development partners and NGOs. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the icddr,b, and Co-‐Chair of the Research Project Review Panel of WHO Special Programme Of Research, Development And Research Training In Human Reproduction. She has published peer reviewed papers, guidelines and policy briefs on HIS and RMNCH implementation research and was a member of the Routine Health Information Systems: Basic Concepts and Practice curriculum advisory committee and the WHO One Health information systems development advisory group.

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