Prof. Dr. Alain Labrique

Dr Alain Labrique is the Director for the Department of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and AI in the Health Systems Division at the World Health Organization (HQ). He is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative and founding Editor-in-Chief for the Oxford Open Digital Health journal. An infectious disease and population epidemiologist, he served until September of 2022 as Professor and the inaugural Associate Chair for Research in Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr Labrique has led large-scale health systems research in over 30 countries and was recognized as one of the Top 11 mHealth Innovators in 2011. With over 300 publications in high-impact journals, book chapters, and reports on Digital Health and Emerging Infectious Diseases, his frameworks for Digital Health remain among the most cited. Dr Labrique has served as a Technical Advisor to global health agencies, philanthropies and Ministries of Health and chaired the WHO Digital Health Guidelines Development Group. Dr Labrique speaks fluent English, French, and Bengali.