Dr. Caroline Perrin is the Executive Director of the GDHUB.

Prior to joining the GDHUB she gained over 10 years of experience in managing digital health projects and multi-stakeholder partnerships with a focus on the design, development, deployment, and evaluation of innovative health informatics solutions to strengthen health systems.

She is a PMP-certified project manager and holds a Bachelor in business administration (information management) from Odisee in Brussels, a Master in Management of Information Systems and Service Sciences, and a PhD in global health from the University of Geneva.

Originally from Madagascar, Mirana Randriambelonoro holds a Master degree in Communication Systems from EPFL and a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Geneva. She is part of the HI5Lab group (Health Informatics for Innovation, Integration, Implementation and Impact) at the University of Geneva. Her domain of expertise focuses on technology for behavior change, recommender systems, digital health, and digital transformation. Starting with novel smartphone-enabled social interfaces, she then successfully explored other domains, including patient simulators, augmented-reality rehabilitation devices, as well as voice-enabled interfaces. She also developed a 3D gamified medical record to educate and engage liver transplant children, as well as a multiplatform tele expertise software to de-isolate remote medical centers.  She actively contributed to the creation of the gdhub and is now leading the technological operations of the hub.

Sophie Delaigue is a dermatologist and infectiologist with clinical experience in tropical environments. Comfortable working in a multicultural and international environment, Sophie has developed expertise in telemedicine, both research and operational. As part of the MSF’s telemedicine programme since its creation in 2016, she has coordinated clinical cases, built the pool of external specialists, and advised on programme management and tool development. Sophie has a Master’s degree in Public Health and Development from the University of Aix Marseille and has worked as a Neglected Tropical Diseases Focal Point for PAHO/WHO in Haiti and as an Infectious Diseases Advisor for the World Bank during the COVID pandemic. Sophie is currently working with the gdhub to support the creation of evidence knowledge to guide the implementation of digital health, and to manage communities of practice.

Dr. Awa Babington-Ashaye specializes in virology and molecular biochemistry and earned her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva. With extensive experience in both public health and the private health sector, she has contributed to the development of therapeutic solutions for various conditions, including COPD or asthma as example. Dr. Babington-Ashaye has led numerous public health initiatives aimed at the prevention and diagnosis of infectious diseases including Malaria, Zika or most recently COVID-19 particularly in various regions worldwide.

She is passionate about creating sustainable impact on populations through the implementation of novel digital health solutions. Dr. Babington-Ashaye has an expertise in the design, implementation, and evaluation of AI-driven tools, including chatbots aimed at enhancing the quality of life for patients especially in low-resource settings.

Dr. Christophe Gaudet- Blavignac is the Knowledge Engineering Lead of the GDHUB.

He is trained as physician and computer scientist, and completed a PhD in Global Health about medical semantics and interoperability at the University of Geneva.

He is physician in charge of medical semantics in the Division of Medical Information Sciences (SIMED) in the Geneva University Hospital. He is also part of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) council as the academic representative of institutional members.

He is interested in interoperability, semantics, data in healthcare, natural language processing and standardization aiming at better use and reuse of clinical data.

Professor Bagayoko is an expert in medical informatics and eHealth. He currently serves as Head of the Innovation and Digital Health Center at the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako in Mali. He brings over 25 years of experience in managing and implementing major eHealth projects, notably through expert missions carried out across multiple African countries and Europe, as well as through his role as General Coordinator of the Network in Francophone Africa for Telemedicine (RAFT).

Prof. Bagayoko serves as Vice-President of the Francophone Interest Group within the International Medical Informatics Association, is a member of the board of the Pan African Health Informatics Association (HELINA), is a full member of the Malian Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.

Professor Bagayoko has authored numerous scientific publications and has been the recipient of numerous scientific and honorary distinctions, including the Swiss government postdoctoral Excellence Fellowship, the Mali National Medal of Merit, and the “RFI Challenge App Afrique” award.

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Alexis Baudin is a postdoctoral researcher in computer science,
specializing in graph theory with applications in medical informatics.
His current work focuses on developing advanced graph algorithms to
address challenges in large-scale, real-world networks. He also explores
temporal graphs, integrating both structural and temporal information to
provide deeper insights into dynamic datasets.

He earned his PhD from the Complex Networks team at LIP6, Sorbonne
Université, CNRS in 2023. Prior to his PhD, he completed a master’s
degree in computer science research and software technology at ENS
Paris-Saclay and Sorbonne Université in Paris.

David Vicente has a background in computer science and holds a master’s degree in data science from the Haute école de gestion in Geneva. He is part of the DS4DH (Data Science for Digital health) group as a developer and data scientist. Within the group, he supervises the technical aspects while leading certain research projects.

He joined the gdhub thanks to a collaboration between the DS4DH group and gdhub, and is now involved in building the science map.

Marija Milutinovic is a PhD student in the Data Science for Digital Health group at the University of Geneva, Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics.

 She completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering, with a specialization in Signal and Image Processing.

During her studies, Marija gained valuable experience through several internships at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (2017), the EPFL Excellence in Engineering Program (2019), and the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme (2020). She worked on diverse projects ranging from the assessment of bias such as disparate impact and mistreatment in social decision-making systems to deep generative models for neuroscience.

 Marija is currently collaborating with the gdhub on a platform for Digital Health Question Answering.

A medical doctor by training, Dr Mahmoud CISSE has specialised in medical informatics and biostatistics, enabling him to combine clinical expertise with a mastery of digital technologies applied to healthcare. He holds a Master’s Degree in Expertise and Engineering of Health Information Systems and a Master’s Degree in Quantitative and Econometric Methods for Health Research, reinforcing his ability to analyse complex data and develop innovative solutions to improve healthcare.
Currently a project manager at CERTES (Centre d’Expertise et de Recherche en Télémédecine et E-Santé), he plays a key role in setting up, monitoring and evaluating telemedicine projects, in particular their health economic impact. His work involves measuring the economic and clinical impact of these initiatives, while ensuring that they meet the needs of patients and healthcare providers.
He has also been involved in the establishment of a digital health outpost in Mali.
His current work aims to harness the potential of AI to facilitate access to healthcare for the general public, and also to optimise the activities of healthcare professionals.

Professor Olivia Keiser is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva and the Director of the GRAPH Network  Prof. Keiser is also the Head of the Infectious Diseases and Mathematical Modelling Division where her group takes an interdisciplinary research approach by combining mathematical modelling (including cost-effectiveness analyses), analyses of cohort data, data- and text mining, systematic reviews, and qualitative research techniques. Predominant areas of focus include HIV, tuberculosis, and COVID-19. The group has been expanding their work to other infectious diseases and investigating the interaction between communicable and non-communicable diseases. International collaboration are at the center of the group’s activities with the overall goal of building capacity in low and middle income countries. 

Douglas Teodoro studied Computer Engineering at the Federal University of Itajubá in Brazil. Between 2006 and 2008, he worked at CERN, Switzerland as a data manager in the experiment that discovered the Higgs boson. In 2012, he earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Geneva. His research focused on methods of artificial intelligence for managing and analyzing distributed biomedical data to support real-time monitoring of antimicrobial resistance. Between 2013 and 2016, he completed a post-doctoral stay at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, followed by industrial research experience in health data science at Philips Research. In 2016, he joined the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and, in 2019, was appointed assistant professor at the HES-SO Geneva, where he continued his research in data science applied to the biomedical field. In 2021, he was appointed assistant professor for the data science and artificial intelligence chair in the Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva.