Facilitators and Presenters

Orvill Adams adamso@who.ch has worked in the area of health systems development for over 20 years, both in the public and private sector. His post-graduate degrees are in Economics and International Affairs. He was Director of the Department of Medical Economics, Canadian Medical Association, from 1980-1990, and worked in the areas of policy formulation and policy analysis, forecasting of health economic conditions, analysis of constitutional matters pertaining to responsibility for health care, the study of health care expenditures and manpower policy, and the organization of the Canadian health care delivery system. From 1990-1994 he was Principal in his own company, Curry Adams & Associates Inc., committed to the development and practice of effective and efficient management in public and private health, education and social services. He joined WHO in 1995 in the Division of Human Resources for Health and worked in the area of human resources development and health sector reform. This included assisting countries in human resources management, skill mix, development of health performance indicators, and policy and management approaches to the improvement of human resources development. Since April 1999 he has been Director of the Department of Organization of Health Services Delivery.

Mustapha Azelmat mazelmat@sante.gov.ma has been the Chef de Service des Etudes et de l'Information Sanitaire in the Ministry of Health in Morocco since 1986. He has directed numerous research studies relating to epidemiology, demographics, and various health issues. He has also been directly involved in design and establishment of health information systems throughout Morocco and worked as a consultant to international organizations such as WHO.

Ties Boerma ties_boerma@unc.edu is currently based at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill serving as the Director of the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation project. He has degrees in both medicine and demography and 16 years of experience working in public health and research programs in developing countries, primarily in Africa. Dr. Boerma has taken part in short term and long term assignments in more than 20 countries, working for national governments, bilateral donors (e.g. USAID, Dutch development aid), and international organizations (e.g. UNICEF, WHO). He has extensive experience in research, as principal investigator or coordinator, from the design of longitudinal studies, cross-sectional surveys and evaluation research and has published more than 50 articles, chapters in books and books in the field of AIDS, maternal and child health, child survival, reproductive and sexual health, and health information.

Eduard Bos ebos@worldbank.org is Demographer/Senior Population Specialist at the World Bank's Health, Nutrition, and Population Anchor unit. Currently, his main responsibility is to manage the Bank's demographic work, including the production of estimates and projections used in lending operations and analytical work. He has contributed to the demographic literature in the areas of trends and determinants in fertility and mortality in the developing world, population forecasting methodology, and the impact of HIV/AIDS on population. In addition to the demographic work, his current activities involve the development of monitoring and evaluation performance indicators.

Bruce Campbell campbell@unfpa.org is currently Chief Technical Advisor for UNFPA/Eritrea. Prior to working in Eritrea, he was the Chief Technical Advisor for UNFPA/Nepal and the Chief Technical Advisor and Team Leader for UNFPA/Royal Tropical Institute/MOH in Accra, Ghana. He has also served as Medical Director and Primary Health Care Coordinator for Afghan refugees in Pakistan and performed numerous consultancies in this area of throughout the world. He has published extensively on health information system development and sustainability.

Chet Nath Chaulagai chaulagai@malawi.net is currently Technical Advisor for Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation / Health Management Information System with the Ministry of Health and Population in Malawi. His position is supported by the Netherlands Support Malawi Health, Population, and Nutrition Program. He has also served as Team Leader and Coordinator for the Rural Health Development Programme with the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation in Nepal.

Mary S. Church mchurch@roadrunner.com has designed, implemented, and evaluated management information systems for a broad range of governmental, non-governmental, research and private sector organizations throughout the world. Her assignments have included working with health professionals and managers to determine system requirements; design and implementation of data collection and report instrumentation and processes, training materials, and automation support; and systems evaluation.

Jean-Jacques de St. Antoine jdestantoine@worldbank.org is a Lead Operations Specialist in the Europe and Central Asia Human Development Department of the World Bank. He is the Program Team Leader for Russia in the health sector. He is Team Leader for Tuberculosis and AIDS Control Project and a Health Reform Implementation Project under preparation. During the 1990s, he was Principal Operations Officer in the health sector in the Latin American Region of the Bank and has been in charge of health sector health sector projects and policy dialogue in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua. Among other issues, he is interested in financial aspects, political economy of health reforms, and improving efficiency of health

Erin Eckert Erin_Eckert@jsi.com is currently Principal Investigator on the MEASURE Evaluation Project at JSI Research and Training Institute. Prior to joining JSI, she was Research Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health and Development at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine working in the area of research and technical support. She has served as a consultant in various countries in Africa.

Michael P. Edwards Michael_Edwards@jsi.com is currently a Biostatistician/Health and Geographic Information System Specialist with MEASURE Evaluation/John Snow, Inc. Prior to joining JSI, he was Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He has supported health information systems restructuring and development in Morocco, Niger, and other developing countries.

Paul Ehmer is the Deputy Director, Office of Health and Nutrition, PHN Center, Global Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development. He has been Deputy Director, HN, for the past 2 years after returning to USAID/Washington from almost 22 years in the field. Among his field assignments are Health Team Leader, Bolivia; Chief of the HPN Office, Togo; Health Officer, Morocco; Chief of the Health Office, Tanzania. He started his overseas experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana in the late 60s. Paul has an MPH degree in health education and epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bob Emery bemrey@usaid.gov is currently Chief of the Health Policy and Sector Reform Division in the USAID Office of Health and Nutrition. During his earlier assignments in the Office, he managed the two flagship contracts focusing on improving the sustainability of USAID PHN projects: Health Financing and Sustainability (HFS) and, more recently, Partnerships for Health Reform (PHR). For a time, he also managed the two USAID flagship projects in maternal health and child survival, Mothercare and Pritech, respectively. His field experience includes support to USAID PHN activities in all four of its operational regions, emphasizing health financing, management development, and information systems.

Michel Garenne garenne@ceped.ined.fris currently Director of Research of the Centre Français sur la Population et le Développement (CEPED). Prior to joining CEPED, he was Associate Professor of Demography at Harvard University School of Public Health and Senior Researcher at ORSTOM, Dakar. He has held various teaching and research positions focusing on health and mortality issues in Africa, South Asia and Central Asia. His work has emphasized emerging diseases and new health problems and their demographic impact, in particular AIDS in Africa.

Besrat Hagos besrath@eri.healthnet.org is currently Director of Research and Human Resources Development in the MOH in Eritrea where she has been instrumental in the development and ratification of HMIS Policy and upgrading of the State of Eritrea Management Information System for Health (SEMISH) and the Customized SEMISH software. She has also served as the Director of the National Drug Quality Control Laboratory in the Department of Pharmaceutical Services and a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice at the University of Nairobi.

Nasim Haque nasim_haque@hotmail.com is currently Assistant Professor in charge of the Department of Reproductive and Child Health and is Deputy Director of the Health Services Academy in Islamabad. Prior to joining the HSA, she was National Coordinator for the Health Management Information System restructuring program with USAID and Reproductive Health Specialist for GTZ.

Arthur Heywood arthur@hisp.org of the Equity Project is currently a senior lecturer at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town South Africa. He started, set up and developed the district health information system which has grown to become the standard HIS for South Africa. Currently he is the project leader for its rollout.

Charles Kachacka northern@cboh.org.zm is a data management specialist for the Ministry of Health in Zambia.

Robert T. Kambic bkambic@jhsph.edu is currently Manager and Program Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He has served as an Associate Scientist since 1984 and was Director of Computing for two NIH-funded Institutes (Population Center and Aging Center). Before joining JHU, Kambic was Program Developer and Consultant for the establishment of family planning programs in a number of states in the U.S.

Khol Khemrary hisdis@camnet.com.kh is the Deputy Chief of the Health Information Bureau at the Ministry of Health in Cambodia

Lali Khotenashvili khotenashvili@hotmail.com is currently Director of the Georgian State Research Institute of Dermatology and Venerology and Deputy Director of Georgian State Research Institute of Dermatology and Venerology. In addition, Dr. Khotenashvili was responsible for preparing the preparation of the Georgian National Reproductive Health Programme supported by WHO and UNFPA and has conducted various international consultancies.

Anne K. LaFond Anne_LaFond@jsi.com has been a technical advisor in MEASURE Evaluation/JSI project since 1998 where she has focused on developing approaches to applied monitoring and evaluation and researched the issue of capacity-building measurement. Prior to joining JSI, she was Principal Investigator for a five- country study on sustainability in the health sector in developing countries. She has held research and program positions with both Save the Children Fund and the Aga Khan Foundation, in addition to performing various consultancies in research and evaluation for USAID and UNCIEF.

Theo Lippeveld Theo_Lippeveld@jsi.com is Vice-President of the International Division at John Snow, Inc. He is a public health physician with more than twenty years of experience in health policy analysis, health planning, and health services management in developing countries. His specific area of strength and focus in the last fifteen years has been the design and implementation of national routine health information systems (e.g. Chad, Pakistan, and Morocco). Together with his colleagues and with the Unit of Country Information Systems of WHO/Geneva, he wrote and edited a book on lessons learned and best practices in routine HIS, based on various country experiences.

Anton Luchitsky anton@path-k.carrier.kiev.ua is currently a Program Officer in the Ukraine Health Management Information Systems Projects with PATH in Kiev. Prior to joining PATH, he served as a Medical Officer with the Kiev Delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, supporting their projects in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, and a physician focusing on Infection Control in the Kiev Central Hospital, Ukraine.

Julie McLaughlin jmclaughlin@worldbank.org is a Senior Health Specialist in the Africa Region of the World Bank. She started working with the Bank in 1993 in the Population, Health and Nutrition Department. Her work has focused on health systems development and sector reform. She has a particular interest in development assistance to the health sector. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked with NGOs/PVOs in Africa, Asia and the South Pacific on child survival and communicable disease projects for eight years. She conducted work for her MPH and DrPH in the Health Systems Division of the International Health Department at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Christon Moyo is the Deputy Director Health Management Information Unit for the Ministry of Health and Population in Malawi. He heads the Health Management Information Unit in the Ministry of Health and Population that is mandated to: collect, compile and analyse health statistics from data routinely generated by the health facilities; provide feedback to where the information is generated; and provide statistical reports to all stakeholders. But more importantly, the Unit promotes the use of information for management functions. He currently coordinates the development of an integrated and comprehensive Health Management Information System.

Eddie Mukooyo emukooyo@hotmail.com has three years experience as Medical Superintendent of a district hospital, five years as District Director of Health Services and is currently Assistant Commissioner of Health Services for Resource Center at the Ministry of Health.

Syed Mursalin n_hmis@yahoo.com is the National Coordinating Officer in charge of Routine Health Information for the National HMIS Cell at the Ministry of Health in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Arun Nanda arn@who.dk is currently Regional Advisor for Health Information at the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. He has also worked with WHO as a consultant, and in the Department of Health in the United Kingdom as Assistant Director of Operations (Planning), DSD Division and Regional Manager, Disablement Services Authority, NW Thames Region.

Peter Nsubuga pnsubuga@cdc.gov is a former EIS officer. He is a medical epidemiologist in the Division of International Health, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is a medical doctor with an MPH. He has spent the last three years evaluating and strengthening surveillance, epidemic preparedness, and response systems in Africa for the CDC. He has also worked on health information and management systems and perinatal surveillance in Africa.

Stanislaw Orzeszyna orzeszynas@who.ch is a public healthy physician currently working in the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva in the field of health information systems. Prior to this assignment he worked in several countries of Africa and Asia in health planning and management and medical statistics. His interests cover district health team problem solving, monitoring and evaluation methods of health systems, quality assessment of clinic procedures and information recording.

Amanda Rose arose@macroint.com is currently an Evaluation Specialist with the MEASURE Evaluation project at ORC Macro. Prior to joining Macro, she was a maternal and child health consultant for the Centre for Communications Programs, Baltimore; Adventist Development & Relief Agency, Conakry/Pita, Guinea; Catholic Relief Services, Nairobi, Kenya; Evidence Based Choices, Baltimore; Counterpart International., Washington DC. She also served as Senior Registrar Community Paediatrics, Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority.

Josibert Rubona jrubona@hotmail.com is the head of the Health Management Information Systems at the Tanzanian Ministry of Health. Mr Rubona is in charge of the national health management information system, which operates in all districts in Tanzania.

Karima Saleh ksaleh@worldbank.org is a health economist by training. She has over ten years of experience in health, and population sector development. She has advised governments, and consulted with NGOs, academic institutions, and international corporations. Her focus area is in policy research, health economics, demographic economics, applied econometrics, health care financing, hospital costing, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Other interests are monitoring and evaluation, management information systems (MIS), program planning and project management.

Peter Sandiford peter@sandifords.net is currently a Consultant and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Sector Development. He is conducting research and providing technical assistance to developing and transitional countries, principally in the area of health policy. He is currently seconded to the Central American Health Institute, working on a project measuring health system performance in 3 countries in Central America. His particular interest in the area of information systems is in the development of system of data exchange with the private sector, particularly for communicable disease surveillance. Since 1996, he has also served as a Honorary Fellow, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He has held various programmatic and research positions including Project Director for Appropriate Health Information Systems for Primary Health Care and Health Promotion project, an action-research project in Nicaragua with the Department of community Medicine, University College London.

Steve Sapirie ssapirie@msh.org is currently Director of the INFORM Program at Management Sciences for Health. Prior to joining MSH, he was Chief of the Strengthening Country Health Information Unit at the World Health Organization, Geneva. The unit was responsible for developing, applying and training in practical methods for strengthening national health information systems and procedures. He has also served as Senior Scientist, Family Health Division, WHO, Geneva

Marina Shakhnazarova mshakh@caucasus.net is currently Head of the Division of Data Analysis and Data Presentation in the Centre of Medical Statistics and Information in the Ministry of Health, Georgia. Since joining the MOH in 1975, she was been involved in numerous computer programming, data analysis and research projects and publications including serving as the Editor of the monthly Epidemiology Bulletin, MOH, Georgia and CDC / Tbilisi.

Alex H. Simwanza ALEXS@zihp.org.zm is currently the Health Management Information Systems Advisor for the Zambia Integrated Health Program (ZIHP). Prior to joining ZIHP, he was Medical Officer in several districts, Senior Medical Officer in charge of primary health care at provincial level, and manager for technical support and performance audit at the Central Board of Health.

Randy Wilson rwilson@msh.org is currently Deputy Chief Information Officer, Finance & Senior MIS Associate, INFORM Program, with Management Sciences for Health (MSH). Prior to this position, he was Logistics Advisor for the APPROPROP Project in Madagascar. He has provided technical support for HIS assessment and development throughout the developing world.

Yazoumé Yé ye@pra.bf is currently a Research Assistant / Database Manager at the Centre de Reserche en Santé de Nouna (CRSN) in the Ministry of Health. Previously, he served as Research Assistant and Data Base Manager at the Ministry of Health's Action Research Project for the Improvement of Health Care (Projet Recherche Action Pour l'Amélioration des Soins de Santé - PRAPASS), Burkina Faso.