Our Team

Dr. Caroline Perrin is the Executive Director of the Geneva Digital Health Hub, where she steers the Hub’s strategy, partnerships and global portfolio of digital‑ and AI‑powered initiatives. She brings more than a decade of experience designing, implementing and evaluating digital health solutions that strengthen health systems in high‑ and low‑resource settings. Caroline has led multi‑stakeholder programmes spanning government, academic, private and nonprofit sectors, including the rollout of telemedicine and data‑collection platforms to 200 + frontline clinics.

A PMP‑certified project manager, Caroline earned a PhD in Biomedical Sciences and a Master’s in Information Systems & Service Science from the University of Geneva, as well as a Bachelor’s in Business Administration (Information Management) from Odisee in Brussels. Her work focuses on evidence‑based innovation, collaborative governance and the responsible use of digital solutions for global health.

Originally from Madagascar, Dr. 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.

Dr. 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.

Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler is the Chair of the gdhub Governing Board, and Managing Director of the gdhub.

A trained internal medicine physician, Antoine Geissbuhler specialized in medical informatics at Vanderbilt University. Since 1999, he has directed the chair in medical informatics at the University of Geneva’s Faculty of Medicine, the UNESCO chair in digital medical education, and the e-health and telemedicine service of the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), a recognized WHO partner. As president of the Health On the Net foundation, he works to promote the quality of medical information on the Internet. Past president of the International Medical Informatics Association, he is interested in the potential of digital tools for the overall development of health systems. Professor and former Vice Dean of the University of Geneva’s Faculty of Medicine in charge of humanitarian and international medicine, he is the senior physician of the e-health and telemedicine service of the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and in charge of the HUG’s center for innovation.

 His research focuses on creation of new IT tools targeting improvement in the quality and efficiency of processes of care. His research is applied at the local level in the Geneva healthcare system, at the national level for the implementation of the Swiss e-health strategy, and at the international level with projects such as RAFT, a major telemedicine network that connects hundreds of healthcare professionals in 20 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Antoine Geissbuhler became Vice-Rector of the University of Geneva in 2019 and is in charge of the University’s digital strategy as well as innovation.

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.

Dr Pramendra Prasad Gupta is an Additional Professor in the Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS). Additionally, he serves as a Medical Coordinator in the eHealth and Telemedicine Program of BPKIHS. He has a keen interest in digital health and chronic diseases. 

Dr. 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.

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.