Got Digital?

ALECK DHLIWAYO

Information Systems Manager, PSI Zimbabwe

Aleck Dhliwayo is PSI Zimbabwe’s Information Systems Manager based in Harare.

Aleck has considerable experience in innovative Information systems in the Public Health arena. Aleck has a special interest in delivering cutting-edge, appropriate Digital health technologies and strategies for real time decision making and increased health impact in low resource environments.

RAYMOND YEKEYE

Director of Operations, National AIDS Council (NAC), Zimbabwe

Raymond Yekeye is the Director of Operations at the National AIDS Council (NAC) of Zimbabwe and is the principal in charge of all NAC programming. He has been involved with the Makoni Project since its inception and is the focal point at the National AIDS Council.

Besides being the point person on the project, his work also includes partnership management enabling linkages of the project with other HIV-related programmes in Makoni.

Raymond has previously worked with the Ministry of Health and Child Care which has assisted in ensuring embedding the program within the structures of the Ministry at the health facility level.

ENGLISH SALL

Maverick Collective Member

English Sall holds a PhD in industrial and organizational psychology and is a board member of the Sall Family Foundation and several global health and development organizations.

English is also the co-founder of Embark, a gender justice initiative serving grassroots feminist movements, and is currently serving as a post-doctoral fellow at the Carolina Health Informatics Program at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health.

TERRY MATHENGE

Program Manager, PSI Global Services Hub

Terry is a  project management professional with over 10 years of experience. Driven by the desire to improve lives, she is passionate about delivering interactive, consumer-centric Global Health solutions that leverage mobile technology to provide users with access to information and quality health services contributing to Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Within PSI, Terry leads the design and implementation of consumer and workforce digital solutions in 15 countries in Africa and Asia as well as eLearning.

SUSAN LETTING

Program Manager, PSI Global Services Hub

Susan is a passionate and skilled IT professional with over 12 years hands-on experience in system design, implementation and support. She has a rich skillset mix in identifying business needs/problems and recommending and designing cutting edge digital initiatives and solutions. She also enjoys engaging users and is an evangelist of user-centered design approach in systems implementation to maximize benefits both to the user and the organization. She is currently the Digital Product Manager at the Digital Health & Monitoring department at PSI with a focus on implementing and improving workforce solutions to support quality and efficient delivery of healthcare. When not working, she loves spending time with family and running!

CHRIS PURDY

Deputy Director, Global Health, PSI

Chris Purdy is PSI’s Deputy Director of Digital Health and Monitoring and directs the technical execution and implementation of PSI’s global consumer-powered digital health strategy.  He leads PSI’s digital response to COVID-19, including the technical development of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger-based conversational AI tools for personalized health information provision for consumers, and mLearning courses for frontline health workers. Chris has spent the last ten years implementing health management information systems, consumer health platforms, and mobile applications for health workers in LMICs. He holds a Masters of Science in Health Systems from Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

MALCOLM QUIGLEY

Maverick Advisor & Lead, Strategic Partnerships, PSI

Malcolm began his career at the European Commission President’s office in Brussels, Belgium and subsequently moved on to the private sector where he worked on communications strategies for a large multi-national telecommunications company operating in Europe, the Middle-East and Africa.

Following the completion of his MBA, he volunteered with VSO in Bosnia and Herzegovina where he worked with a local refugee return organisation on their sustainability strategy. In 2004, he returned to Ireland where he established VSO in the country and facilitated over 400 highly skilled Irish expert volunteers to work with local partners in Africa and Asia on capacity building programs. Malcolm also served as VSO’s Country Director in Mozambique, overseeing a large women’s economic development programme and a girl’s school programme.  Malcolm’s work also extends to Southern and Eastern Africa, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and the Maldives.

At PSI, Malcolm leads Strategic Partnerships and works to develop shared value relationships with corporate and foundation partners. He is also a Maverick Advisor and in this edition of ISSUE, Malcolm is standing in for an anonymous Maverick Member.

MERCY SIMIYU

Kenya Country Director, VIAMO

Mercy Simiyu is a public health specialist with an avid interest in tech innovation for impact. Previously working with Komen Foundation, a breast cancer organization in the US, she helped ensure access to care for minority women and patients in the Los Angeles area. Mercy has also worked for AED-USAID in Liberia and as a Public Health Director for Lalmba in rural Ethiopia. She was also based in Kenya and supported community health workers across Africa as the Partnerships and Communications Manager at Medic Mobile (Medic), a global health tech company. Now with Viamo, Mercy has led the Uganda office and has been involved with Viamo-PSI collaborations in the country. She is currently transitioning to Viamo’s Country Director in Kenya.

With a passion for applying Human-Centered Design to tech approaches for positive impact within communities across Africa, her guiding ethos has been that innovation does not have to be app-based to change lives – she designs public health project workflows at Viamo with her grandmother in mind.

HELEN OLSEN

Senior Manager, Program Monitoring & Evaluation, MEDIC

A feminist researcher at heart, Helen is a trained social scientist working at the intersection of global health research and program management at Medic as a Senior Manager, Monitoring & Evaluation. In this role, Helen leads M&E efforts across programmatic strategies and works closely with colleagues on the Research and Product teams as she leads Medic’s Responsible Data portfolio. Prior to joining the Medic team, Helen worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as an Associate Program Officer in the Global Health division and at the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation as a Project Officer on the Global Burden of Disease Study.

Helen is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and has a Master’s in Geography from Rutgers University and a Bachelor’s in Geography & Public Health from the University of Washington. She has conducted ethnographic and mixed-methods field research on women’s access to quality care in Sierra Leone, India, Tanzania, and in the USA.

CHRISTINE ODUOR

Senior Program Manager, Digital Health & Monitoring, PSI

As the Senior Program Manager for Digital Health and Monitoring at PSI, Christine Oduor oversees implementation of digital health initiatives in over 10 countries in Latin America and Africa. She is ardent about elevating consumer voice – working closely with other insights team across the organization to provide consumer digital insight leadership to inform design and implementation of solutions to increase access and personalized delivery of health information, products and services.

Christine has over 11 years experience in project management and social and market research. She has a background in population studies and a bachelor’s in education from University of Nairobi.

MARTIN DALE

Director, Digital Health & Monitoring, PSI

As Director for Digital Health and Monitoring, Martin is responsible for executing the institutional Digital Strategy focused on increasing access and personalized delivery of health information, products and services using digital solutions. In addition, he is responsible for powering data-driven performance improvement using routinely available data. He previously served as PSI’s Deputy Director within the Evidence Department, and has held other roles in the organisation including at the field level working as PSI South Sudan as a Monitoring and Evaluation specialist.

Martin joined PSI from the British Civil Service, where he worked as a government Senior Policy Analyst for a number of years. He earned a bachelor’s in Development Economics and a Masters in Demography, both from institutions in the United Kingdom.