About Us | Digital Health Tools | SHIFT Partner Network

The eSHIFT Partner Network is a Swiss not-for-profit leader in digital health architecture and information systems implementation founded in 2012. We believe strongly that with international cooperation and public-private sector collaboration it is possible to create sustainable, efficient and practical digital tools which help populations in low and middle-income countries achieve better health outcomes. eSHIFT creates the bridge between strategy and implementation and helps bring digital health systems to scale.

Action

Our primary efforts are dedicated to on-the-ground activities in conflict zones and politically complex and/or resource constrained settings. These range from the use of mobile devices through to the design of national-scale health surveillance systems. This direct implementation experience informs the consulting and training activities eSHIFT provides to the wider global digital health community. Much of this work has been achieved through strong relationships with the DHIS2 and global health information communities.
Policy

eSHIFT actively participates in global digital health strategy and policy discussions. This ranges from landscape reviews of global health surveillance activities through to the drafting of digital health strategy for key global actors. Increasingly, eSHIFT advocates for specific informed actions that will lead to more sustainable outcomes for digital health systems in LMIC contexts.
Knowledge

We believe in sharing our expertise with members of the global health community to empower them to make better investment decisions related to digital health in LMIC contexts. eSHIFT sponsors a number of workshops and conferences in Geneva and globally for this purpose. eSHIFT also sees the value of building global public goods, including software components, guidelines, workbooks and other such artifacts. We are currently in the early stages of forming a digital health interoperability centre as a hub for training and research and the generation and/or maintenance of global public good outputs.

Meet the team

We are a global network of experts passionate about the intersection of technology and public health. Whether consulting, developing or implementing digital health systems we are committed to delivering high-quality, best-practice, cost-effective and sustainable solutions for global digital health needs.

Founder & President

Steven Uggowitzer

Steven Uggowitzer is an engineer specializing in information management and ICT for public health and international development. For the past eighteen years Steven has developed innovative approaches to adapt technology to the needs of governmental and international institutions. He has held senior technology positions in WHO, Health Metrics Network (HMN) and NGOs, supporting ICT work in data management for global pandemic response, including with GOARN, for the SARS and 2005 Tsunami responses. He brings extensive HIS, digital health and IT operational experience in LMIC contexts including leading the deployment of DHIS2 in Sierra Leone, Sudan and Eritrea, Indonesia, Myanmar. Steve is a member of the eSHIFT Board of Directors.

Founder & Vice President

David Hagan

David Hagan has over thirty years of Information Systems experience, twenty of them directly related to Health. He was Principal Advisor to WHO for Information and Knowledge Management and Principal Advisor for Health Intelligence to the NHS (with Northgate IS). For the last 12 years, he has delivered HIS Technical Assistance and Management Consulting engagements for WHO and other international partners. David has extensive field experience in Africa (Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Senegal, Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe), and is a qualified project manager (PRINCE2). David is a member of the eSHIFT Board of Directors.

Health Information Specialist

John Farrow

John Farrow is a public health and health information systems specialist with expertise in system design and project management. John has a BSc in Health Information Science from the University of Victoria and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has worked to support the implementation of information systems at the national and provincial levels in Canada. He also has experience in supporting implementation of national and local information systems in both Asia and Africa, and most recently has been working on public health surveillance projects with the eSHIFT Partner Network. John is a member of the eSHIFT Board of Directors.

Advisor

Dr. Sally Stansfield

Dr. Sally Stansfield is a physician epidemiologist who is a specialist in policy, information systems and metrics for evaluation of health systems, programs and institutions. Dr Stansfield has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the Middle East. She was the founding director of the Health Metrics Network (HMN) initiative, and previously worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) in Cambodia, the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is a member of the eSHIFT Partner Network Executive Board, and is recently retired as Director, Social Impact Consulting Practice, Deloitte Consulting. Sally is a member of the eSHIFT Board of Directors.

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