Global Public Health & Technology Conference
May 1, 2010
Harvard Kennedy School

Speakers

	Joaquin Blaya received his Ph.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) working on implementing information systems in the National Tuberculosi Program in Peru. He led a team that was the first to show that a handheld system reduced delays in communicating laboratory results from 30 to 7.7 days, prevented 57% of errors, and increased efficiency by 72%. He led a second team in implementing a web-based system in over 220 health centers and showing it decreased errors by 70% and delays by 40%. He is currently a National Library of Medicine (NLM) Fellow at Harvard Medical School, a moderator of the Global Health Delivery Project Health IT community of practice (www.ghdonline.org), and co-founder of eHealth Systems, a Chilean company providing eHealth strategies and open source solutions in developing countries.
	Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MS, is an internist, an intensive care unit doctor, and an infectious disease specialist. After working in New Zealand for 5 years, Leo returned to Boston to pursue a master's degree in biomedical informatics at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology and a master's degree in public health at Harvard University, and a research post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His current research projects are in the field of artificial intelligence in medicine and mobile health technology in resource-constrained settings. He is one of the founders of Moca, a volunteer organization consisting of students from MIT and Harvard.
	Prabhjot Singh Dhadialla directs the Program for Health Systems Development and Research at Columbia University's Earth Institute. In addition, he is the Community Health Worker/Health Systems advisor to the Millennium Villages Project, a partnership between the UNDP, 83 village communities in 10 Sub-Saharan African countries with a global support network. He has previously worked at the International Rescue Committee to ensure that "minimal indicators" about the health status of refugees could be systematically obtained to improve service in the 42 countries where they operate. He co-founded the non-profit Community Lab in 2009 to bring business-driven scalable solutions to low-resource environments. Prabhjot Singh has a PhD in Neural and Genetic Systems from Rockefeller University as part of the Tri-Institutional M.D./Ph.D. Program with Weill Cornell Medical College and is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Health and Economic Development at Columbia with Professor Jeffrey Sachs. He was raised in Kenya and lives in Manhattan.
	Rich Fletcher, PhD is currently a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab working in the area of wireless sensors for physiological monitoring and mobile health. A significant part of this research involves mobile phone applications as a tool for health interventions. After graduating from MIT, Dr. Fletcher founded several companies, including United Villages and First-Mile Solutions, which provide Internet services to rural areas in developing countries. With family roots in Colombia, South America, Dr. Fletcher has also devoted much of his life to developing appropriate technologies for developing countries and was co-founder of two related courses at MIT ("D-Lab Mobile ICT" and "NextLab") that provide students opportunities to design and deploy projects around the world.
	Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. As the Director of Informatics and Telemedicine at Partners In Health he leads the development of web-based medical record systems and data analysis tools to support the treatment of drugresistant tuberculosis and HIV. Dr Fraser is also co-founder of the OpenMRS collaborative.
	Jessica Haberer, MD, received a bachelor's degree in the Biological Sciences and a master's degree in Health Services Research from Stanford University, as well as a medical degree from Yale University. She completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. After finishing her training, Dr. Haberer worked for the William J. Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in Beijing, China, where served as a Clinical and Research Advisor to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for AIDS, Division of Treatment and Care. Upon returning to the United States, she joined the faculty in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco as a Clinical Educator. Dr. Haberer developed in interest in adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) while in China and began studying multiple measures of ART adherence among children and adults in developing settings. Dr. Haberer joined Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Initiative for Global Health in 2008, where she is actively involved in the study of wireless adherence monitoring technologies and strategies for developing settings, as well as adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV infection.
	Jonathan Jackson is an entrepreneur, software engineer, and system designer with extensive real-world experience in the design, development and deployment of technology solutions. He has built software systems and led development teams for a variety of projects in both developed and developing countries. Since co-founding Dimagi, Jonathan has overseen the development of multiple innovative health projects, including SmartCare, the National HIV medical record systems in Zambia and CommCare, a mobile phone based system for community healthcare workers. Jonathan earned bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	Bobby Jefferson is Senior Health Informatics Advisor at Futures Group in Washington, DC. He provides information communication technology (ICT) technical leadership providing innovative solutions to support resource limited, rural hospitals treating those most affected by diseases. He provides technical expertise in developing electronic data collection and reporting solutions using cost effective, freely available software tools, as part of the technical solution.
	Alvin B. Marcelo is a general and trauma surgeon by training and is currently the director of the University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center. Right after residency training, he took his postdoctoral fellowship in medical informatics at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD with research interests in telepathology, mobile computing, and bibliometric analysis of MEDLINE content. Upon return, he established the Master of Science in Health Informatics program in the University. He is presently the manager of the International Open Source Network for ASEAN+3, a centre of excellence in free and/or open source software established by UNDP, and he manages 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 a primary researcher in the PAN Asia Networking and Collaboration for eHealth Applications (PANACeA).
	Mike McKay aspires to be a social justice hacker (think MLK + MacGyver). He lived in Malawi from 2005 until 2009, where he was the Country Director for Baobab Health. With one million people living with HIV and fewer than 300 doctors, Malawi needed a new approach to fighting the epidemic. Mike led a team that created an open source, touchscreen-based, HIV treatment system to guide minimally trained healthcare workers through the complicated process of treating HIV. This point of care system now provides more than 42,000 Malawians with their HIV treatment.
	Josh Nesbit is the Executive Director of FrontlineSMS:Medic. His work as FrontlineSMS Ambassador is supported by the Open Society Institute and the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation. As an international health and bioethics student at Stanford, his qualitative research focused on access to pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment. Josh has implemented text message networks in Malawi, Haiti, Uganda, and Cameroon, advising ICT development projects in more than 15 countries. He is a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow, Strauss Scholar, and Haas Public Service Fellow, and recently received the Truman Award from the Society for International Development.
	Don Yansen, COO and Co-founder of ClickDiagnostics, Inc. Is a serial entrepreneur most recently in the area of mHealth. He developed an entrepreneurial ecosystem program for Bangladesh working with BRAC University and several other NGOs. He worked with the Andean Development Bank-CAF on a program for stimulating entrepreneurial activities in the Andean countries. He has been founder and engineering director in a number of optical systems startups. Most recently in the areas of iris and retina/iris imaging, skin cancer imaging, micro fiber optics imaging. He has, also, been a mentor for teams in MIT's Media Lab Development Entrepreneurship course and a judge in the MIT 100K competition. He is an MIT alumnus.