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, Smisha Agarwal is a population health scientist specializing in conducting MPH, MBA impact evaluations of maternal and child health service delivery programs, Associate including digital health interventions. Currently, she leads the Gates Population Council Foundation-supported Frontline Health project at the Population Washington DC, USA 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, Professor Pascale Allotey is the Director of the United Nations University MMedSci International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH). She has a Director, United Nations multidisciplinary background in clinical health sciences, anthropology, and University International epidemiology. Her community-based research has focused on equity and Institute for Global Health the health of populations marginalised gender, ethnicity, migration status, (UNU-IIGH) religion and poverty. The policy implications of this work have linked Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 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. 1 Name and Affiliation Biography Fazilah Shaik Allaudin, Dr Fazilah is presently the Senior Deputy Director of Planning Division, MD, MBA Ministry of Health Malaysia, a role she held since September 2017. Her Senior Deputy Director of responsibilities cover planning of Health Policies, Facility and eHealth. Prior Planning Division to this, she was the Director of Telehealth Division from October 2016. She Ministry of Health has been with the Ministry of Health for over 25 years. A significant Malaysia portion of her career has been in managing and coordinating new health Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 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, MIA Sean Blaschke currently serves as UNICEF’s Regional Technology for Regional Technology for Development Business Analyst, covering 21 countries in Eastern and Development Business Southern Africa, specialising in digital systems strengthening and Analyst developing organizational strategies for scaling up and institutionalizing Unicef Regional Office innovative and technology enabled programmes. Mr. Blaschke led UNICEF Eastern and Southern support to developing Uganda’s eHealth Strategy and Policy, and Africa establishing the national eHMIS, eIDSR, and eCRVS programmes. Mr. Nairobi, Kenya 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. 2 Name and Affiliation Biography Subhash Chandir, MBBS, Dr Subhash Chandir is an Epidemiologist and Lecturer on Global Health and MPH, PhD Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Director of Maternal & Child Director of Maternal & Health at Interactive Research & Development (IRD). He received his Child Health medical degree from Pakistan, and his Masters in Public Health and a Interactive Research & doctorate in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control from Johns Hopkins Development University. For over 14 years, Subhash has conducted or participated in Dubai, United Arab various studies and projects in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Emirates 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. 3 Name and Affiliation Biography Walter Curioso, PhD, MD, Dr. Curioso has more than 17 years of professional experience at the MPH public and private sector on electronic government. He has lead the Vice-minister planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects at Ministry of Development the national level related to the use and application of information and Social Inclusion and communication technologies in health, education and social Lima, Peru 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. 4 Name and Affiliation Biography Shrey Desai, MBBS, MD, Dr Desai is a researcher and internist at a non-profit organization in India, MPH SEWA Rural, since 2010. After graduating from medical school in India, Dr Head, Community Desai moved to the US and did MD-Internal Medicine. After practicing Outreach medicine for couple of years, he joined the Johns Hopkins School of Public Society for Education Health, Baltimore where he completed MPH. He returned to India in 2010 Welfare and Action and has been working at SEWA Rural since then along with his gynecologist (SEWA)-Rural wife