The global digital health space is moving at a rapid pace, making exponential gains within the last few years. It’s hard to imagine that after only 10 years of development, DHIS 2 is being implemented in 87 countries and Indian states, with 53 operating at national scale. This kinetic global expansion of DHIS 2 has led to exciting collaborations and partnerships that are working to improve LMIC health systems.
And yet we know that there is still work to be done to improve these systems.
In our 4th DHIS 2 Symposium, we’ll look closely at how international partnerships between NGOs and governments are supporting national systems strengthening through technical support that ultimately improves the use of DHIS 2 and how this work is bringing us closer to harmonized data.
But beyond national systems, there is still exciting innovation happening all around us. We’ll spend time looking at Android mobile applications and hear from the UiO about efforts to overhaul and re-develop the applications. Biometrics are making concrete gains in development work and we’ll hear how they can be incorporated into DHIS 2.
Other topics to be explored include:
What work is being done around using DHIS 2 for the Sustainable Development Goals and how can we move that work forward?
How is data used in concrete ways to drive decision-making, course-correction and drive impact of your programs?
How is integration with other systems like LMIS and EMRs improving national systems?
Mr. TRAORE Moussa is currently a Senior M&E Director working for Management Science for Health (MSH) in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is a result oriented development professional with over 10 years' experience in Program Planning & Development, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation of development program /projects in different fields: WASH, Education, Health & Nutrition and Food security. He has led and contributed to the development, rollout, and management of several M&E and Information management systems for specifics projects and organizations at national, regional and global level. He has experience working in different contexts in West, East and Central Africa and South Asia with different International NGOs and different International donors, including USAID, UKAID/DFID, UNOPS, EU, GIZ with a solid educational foundation in Development and a passion for Development work. Moussa holds a master degree in database and Knowledge management and has several certificates and in the areas of project and program management and Monitoring & Evaluation.
