Chris Bailey
Christopher Bailey has worked at the World Health Organization for the last eight years, helping establish eHealth and Informatics at the WHO and pioneering the open standards and architectural approach to national eHealth strategies in resource poor settings. Through this work, Bailey sponsored the initial pilots of OpenMRS outside of Kenya and was a key developer of the collaborative peer learning approach that has been a hallmark of the OpenMRS community. Prior to his work at WHO, Bailey was in charge of the research division at the Rockefeller Foundation and introduced the discipline of Knowledge Management to the Foundation.
Mitchell Baker
As the leader of the Mozilla Project, Mitchell Baker is responsible for organizing and motivating a massive, worldwide collective of employees and volunteers who are breathing new life into the Internet with the Mozilla Firefox Web browser and other Mozilla products. Mitchell was born and raised in Berkeley, California, receiving her BA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley and her JD from the Boalt Hall School of Law. Mitchell has been the general manager of the Mozilla project since 1999. She served as CEO of Mozilla until January 2008, when the organization's rapid growth encouraged her to split her responsibilities and add a CEO. Mitchell remains deeply engaged in developing product offerings that promote the mission of empowering individuals. She also guides the overall scope and direction of Mozilla's mission.
As Executive Chairwoman of Mozilla, Mitchell continues her commitment to an open, innovative Web and the infinite possibilities it presents. TIME Magazine profiled Mitchell under “Scientists and Thinkers” in its 2005 TIME 100. She has also appeared on “The Charlie Rose Show” and “CNN Global Office” to discuss open source software and the Firefox phenomenon. In 2009, Mitchell was honored as winner of the Anita Borg Institute's 2009 Women of Vision Award. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership and was honored as the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2010 Growth, Innovation and Leadership Award. She is also a part of the Henry Ford Museum's Innovator Program.
Joaquin Blaya
Joaquin received his M.S at MIT working in the field of rehabilitation and robotics. Afterwards, realizing that he wanted to work in Latin America and in low resource settings, he began to work with Partners In Health (PIH) and received his Ph.D. from Harvard-MIT implementing information systems in the National Tuberculosis (TB) 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, preventing 57% of errors, and increased efficiency by 72%. He led a second team in implementing a web-based system in over 250 health centers and showing it decreased errors by 87%, delays by 40%, and the patients stopped transmitting drug-resistant TB 20% earlier. He is currently a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, a moderator of the Global Health Delivery Project Health IT community of practice (http://www.ghdonline.org), and co-founder and CEO of eHS (http://www.ehs.cl/en), a Chilean mHealth company.
Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan is an epidemiologist based in Karachi, Pakistan. He trained in medicine at the Aga Khan University and has a doctorate in international health from the Johns Hopkins University. Aamir is an Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center.
Aamir is the founder and Executive Director of Interactive Research and Development (IRD) since 2004, a social enterprise committed to improving global health and development through the use of appropriate technologies.
In Karachi, Aamir directs the Indus Hospital’s Research Center, TB Control Program and Expanded Program on Immunization.
Aamir helped draft Pakistan’s successful USD 173 million Global Fund Round 9 application for scaling up MDR-TB control in Pakistan. He is currently Chair of the Stop TB Partnership MDR-TB Working Group, and is a member of the regional Green Light Committee for Europe (GLC/Europe) and the European Forum for TB Innovation. He represents the MDR-TB Working Group on the global Green Light Committee (gGLC), the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis (STAG-TB), and the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board.
Aamir is an inaugural member of the Board of Directors of OpenMRS based in the United States and of the Steering Committee of openXdata based in Norway. He is a member of the OMEVAC (open source mobile data collection for vaccine trials) and mVAC ( mobile innovations in recording child vaccination and health data in immunization registers) consortiums based at the University of Bergen. He directs an electronic vaccine registry in Karachi that received catalytic funding from the UN Secretary General’s Every Woman Every Child Initiative to improve women’s and children’s health using mobile technology.
Aamir is co-Founder of the Innovations in International Health (IIH) program based at the D-Lab at MIT.
In addition to his work in Pakistan, Aamir has led large-scale surveys and established research studies in Tajikistan, the United States, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico and Brazil over the past 15 years. He is currently engaged in research and technical assistance in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Tajikistan.
Aamir is a certified Advanced Deep Water Diver, and enjoys photography, bird watching and astronomy.
Bill Tierney
William M. Tierney, M.D., is the President and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Interim Director for the Regenstrief Center of Biomedical Informatics, and a Chancellor's Professor and Sam Regenstrief Professor for Health Services Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine where he also serves as Associate Dean for Clinical Effectiveness Research.
His research focuses on implementing electronic health record systems (EHRs) in both hospital and outpatient venues in Indiana and in Kenya, where his team of developers implemented sub-Saharan Africa's first ambulatory EHR. This system has grown to support a network of more than 60 primary care clinics with records from more than 5 million visits and 700,000 patients, and has been expanded by Regenstrief and other developers to become OpenMRS, the most widely implemented open-source EHR in the developing world. Dir. Tierney helped implement one of the first computer-based provider order-entry systems in the U.S. in Wishard Health Services and has used it and other computer-based tools to enhance the quality and efficiency of health care. Dr. Tierney is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a Master of the American College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.