Health Information Systems SpecialistUnited Nations Children's Fund
Alex Muhereza, throughout the last 7 years has been working on the convergence of ICT and humanitarian development in Uganda. He witnessed the explosion of mobile innovations in Uganda in the late 2011 during his work with UNICEF, WHO and Ministry of Health Uganda. While serving as a Health Information Systems Specialist, he has managed multi-stakeholder engagements in eHealth and Health Information Systems including: - mTrac, Mother reminder, CHMS, FamilyConnect and DHIS2. Currently, he is supporting Government of Uganda & development partners on adoption of digital services for improved Health Service Delivery. This involves managing relationships and technical integration between 1)Government of Uganda including Ministries, Departments & Agencies, 2)Development & Implementing partners, 3) Private Sector partners e.g. Mobile Network Operators, Aggregators and Software Development Vendors to institutionalize USSD, SMS, Voice and Web applications. In addition he's actively participating to the development of sector strategies and policies that will guide on Digital Health tools implementation and sustainability in Uganda as well as contributing to development of standards for replication in other related development contexts.
Eastern and Southern Africa