Alain Labrique — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Director, Dept of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence at the World Health Organization (WHO)
Formerly a Professor in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Founding director of the JHU Global mHealth Initiative
Led studies on the impact of Digital Health on improving maternal, neonatal, and infant outcomes in LMICs
Trained as a molecular biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and studied infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Biography

Alain Labrique is the Director of the Department of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence within the Health Systems and Data Division of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. In this role, he oversees work across data, standards (including ICD and FIC), analytics, health information systems architecture, digital public infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and frontier technologies.