Meet the Board
Our Board provides strategic leadership and oversight to ensure
HDC achieves its mission and delivers impact for countries
Global Representation
Diverse representation across global, regional and country levels
Collaborative Expertise
Bringing expertise from partners, governments and communities.
Strategic Leadership
Guiding strategy, partnerships and collective action
Governance & Integrity
Upholding good governance and accountability.
Host
Representation from the host organisation
Alain Labrique
Director, Department of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, World Health Organization
Member
Benson Droti
Team Lead for Health Information and Digital Health at World Health Organization/AFRO
Alternate
Global
Representatives from global organisations, initiatives, philanthropy and academia
Malarvizhi Veerappan
Program Manager, The World Bank
Member
Wondimu Ayele
Specialist, Health Information Systems, The Global Fund
Member
Claudia Wells
Vital Strategies
Alternate
Carolina Batista
Baraka Impact Finance
Alternate
Regional
Representatives working at the regional level
Emily Nicholson
Digital Impact Manager, UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean
Member
Richard J Maude
Professor of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU)
Member
Palenfo Gnourfateon
Immunization & HSS
Alternate
Folake Oni
Acasus
Alternate
Country
Representatives from organizations working at the country level including Ministries of Health
Lalisa Nambeye
Public Health Specialist, Lusaka District Health Office, Ministry of Health
Zambia
Member
John Pasquale Rumunu Karlino
Ministry of Health
South Sudan
Member
Shahajahan Matubbar
ACDI/VOCA social & behaviour change
Bangladesh
Alternate
Abdulaziz Mohammed Hussen
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Senior Researcher, Samara University & Center for Digital Health Implementation Sciences
Ethiopia
Alternate
Elie Caleb Mimbula
Medical Doctor & Public Health Specialist, Ministry of Public Health
DRC
Alternate
Working Group
Representation from HDC Working Groups
Dr. Jean Pierre de Lamalle
MD MPH Senior HIS expert, Fondation AEDES
Board member representing RHIS working group
Bhaskar Mishra
CRVS and Legal Identity Specialist, UNICEF
Board member representing CRVS working group
Vikas Dwivedi
Independent
Board member representing DDG working group
Carine Alsokhn
Technical Officer, World Health Organization
Alternate for CRVS working group
Craig Burgess
World Health Organization
Alternate for DDG working group
Anh Chu
Technical Officer, HIS, World Health Organization
Alternate for RHIS working group
Strategic Adviser: Global
Jainil Didaraly
Disaster and Health Risk Intelligence Expert
Miki Tsukamoto
Strategic Advisor to the HDC Board
Esu Stanley Ezeani
Consultant Epidemiologist, World Health Organization
Caitlin Madevu-Matson
Director, MERL Practice, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc
Michelle Schmitz
MSPH, DevGlobal
Pam Dixon
Executive Director, World Privacy Forum
Kirsten Mathieson
Deputy Director and Policy Lead, Transform Health
Roy Rillera Marzo
Dean-Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of Globesync Community Research and Sustainability Hub, Curtin University Malaysia
Sara (Meg) Davis
Professor, Digital Health and Rights, University of Warwick
Nishant Kishore
Computational Epidemiologist, Carter Center
Rob Lyerla
Jorn Braa
Alvin Marcello
Strategic Adviser: Regional
Emmanuel Njadvara
CEO/Principal Investigator, aid-health.org
Hamza Noomene
Senior Strategic Information Advisor, UNOOSA/UNSPIDER
Sunny Ibeneme
Digital Health Specialist, UNAIDS
John Mark Bwanika
Africa Centre for Applied Digital Health (CADH)
Strategic Adviser: Country
Sadeeq Ahmad
Data & Monitoring Specialist
Pakistan
Deogratias Rutebuka
Digital Health Technical Adviser, HDC/World Health Organization
Rwanda
Jabir Bala Isyaku
B.Pharm., M.H.E., FPCPharm, Katsina State Emergency Medical Services & Ambulance System
Nigeria
Ridima Kamal
Co-founder, Public Health Professionals Coalition for Global Impact
India
Joseph Severe
Executive Director, UNASCAD
Haiti