Members

Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos Chair

Bio

Dr. Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos is Chief Executive at the Global Health Digital Innovation Foundation, UK, and Health Executive in Residence at the UCL Global Business School for Health, bringing over three decades of leadership in health governance and digital innovation. With a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine since the 1990s, he has been a pioneer in applying AI to systems medicine, advising global organizations such as the World Bank, WHO, PAHO, the European Commission, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on strategic challenges at the intersection of health, technology, and governance.

Dr. Kalogeropoulos has advanced international health and development by fostering open innovation ecosystems and systems capital across East and Central Asia, Europe, and Central America. His policy contributions include pivotal roles in the Healthy China 2030 initiative—jointly led by the Government of China, the World Bank Group, and WHO—and in shaping the EU AI Act. As an active participant in the EU AI Office’s Plenary Forum, he contributes to the development of the first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, ensuring AI aligns with emerging regulatory frameworks. Committed to harnessing AI for social good, he is a member of the International Observatory on Information and Democracy, serving on the Stakeholders Advisory Group, where he works to shape a future in which AI contributes to societal value rather than exacerbating systemic discrimination.

As a member of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee and a founding member of the International Advisory Committee for the IEEE Global Standardized Registry for Medical Mobile Health Applications, where he co-chairs the Ethics Subcommittee, Dr. Kalogeropoulos has led efforts to establish global frameworks for trustworthy AI and healthcare applications. His leadership in the WHO-led Health Data Collaborative’s Working Group on Digital Health, Interoperability, and Climate Policy underscores his commitment to addressing global challenges through evidence-based policy initiatives.

Dr. Kalogeropoulos is the founder and Chair of the IEEE Standards Association Industry Connections program IC24-015 on AI for Improved Public Health and Climate-Resilient Health Systems. He also chairs the Ethics Subcommittee of the IEEE SA Global Registry for Mobile Health Applications and leads the P3493.1™ Working Group, developing a Standard Framework for Secure, Compliant, Coordinated, and Inclusive Healthcare Data Recycling, initially focused on cancer care. This initiative exemplifies his ability to bridge policy and innovation, ensuring ethical and sustainable approaches to the secondary use of healthcare data in clinical and research settings.

Building on extensive experience, including his tenure at IBM, Dr. Kalogeropoulos advises start-ups and organizations across Europe and the USA, offering strategic insights into digital transformation and policy alignment. A sought-after speaker, he actively supports global initiatives in innovation, equity, and sustainability, collaborating with private-sector accelerator programs and the WHO Strategic Partnership Initiative for Data and Digital Health.

Dr. Kalogeropoulos exemplifies a vision for equitable healthcare transformation, combining technological innovation with robust policy leadership to address complex global challenges and deliver sustainable, impactful solutions.

Paul Barach

Executive Committee

Bio

Paul is a pioneering clinician scientist, healthcare executive, innovative physician, health services and systems researcher, CEO of J Bara Consulting and a serial entrepreneur. He is passionate about making healthcare safer with a reputation for his work investigating and contributing to systems improvement and design innovation. He has particular expertise in improving the culture and structure of acute and surgical settings, leadership, medical device design, medical education and change in health sector organizations, quality and safety in healthcare, accreditation and surveying processes in the international context and the restructuring of the physical built environment of health services.

Paul is a practicing double board-certified physician-scientist in Anesthesiology and Critical care, from the Massachusetts General Hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. He is a Lecturer at Thomas Jefferson College of Population Health. He is Visiting Professor and teaches at several international Universities. He enjoys working with NGO’s including HCW-Hosted and World Health Innovation Society.

Paul has a proven track record of funding from the National Institutes of Health, HRSA, Agency for Healthcare, Research, & Quality, Department of Defense, European Union, and other competitive funding mechanisms.

As principle of J Bara Innovation, (https://jbarainnovation.com) he advises academic and large hospital systems in US and internationally on curriculum development, hospital and OR design, business operations, performance management, innovation, professional development, team building, and high performance organizations. He enjoys advising several start-up companies.

He publishes regularly (more than 200 refereed contributions, and 300 total publications, 5 books) about organizational, social, human factors, data analytics and team approaches to care. He has presented/chaired international and national conferences, workshops, symposia and meetings on more than 500 occasions, including over 80 keynote addresses. He is a featured speaker on a range of topics related to hospital design, telehealth, safety, quality, digital care, governance, accountability and performance of public services, Information Technology, Clinical Systems; Change Management and Leadership Development.

Maryam Lustberg

Executive Committee

Bio

Dr. Maryam Lustberg is a distinguished physician-scientist specializing in breast cancer care and research. As the Director of the Center for Breast Cancer at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center, and Chief of Breast Medical Oncology, she leads comprehensive breast cancer programs and oversees a diverse portfolio of clinical trials.

Dr. Lustberg’s research focuses on improving long-term outcomes for breast cancer patients, particularly in the areas of treatment-related side effects and survivorship. She is actively investigating novel blood-based biomarkers to identify recurrence and treatment toxicity earlier. Her work is supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute and she collaborates extensively with researchers worldwide.

Nationally recognized for her expertise, Dr. Lustberg serves on several committees for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and is the President-Elect of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC). She is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cancer Survivorship.

Dr. Lustberg completed her medical degree and residency at the University of Maryland, followed by fellowships in medical oncology and breast medical oncology at The Ohio State University. She also holds a Master’s in Public Health from The Ohio State University, focusing on clinical investigation and translational research in breast cancer.

Peter Drury

Executive Committee

Bio

Peter has more than 25 years of information-related experience, as consultant and employee, at all levels of the UK National Health Service and over 19 years’ experience of consulting on digital health issues in developing countries. He has worked in the private sector with Cisco Systems on digital health in Emerging Markets, and with major Development Partners such as WHO, ADB, UNICEF, GIZ and others on digital health issues in Africa, South-East Asia, and the Pacific. He has worked with the African Union on a Digital Health Strategy for Africa. He has conducted a study on One Health in Vietnam, and is supporting the Pacific Community proposals for digital One Health Community Workers for the Pacific. Peter has a PhD and MSc from the University of Surrey and BA from Cambridge University.

Maeghan Orton

Executive Committee

Bio

Maeghan Orton supports Child Health and Climate Product Strategy at Healthy Learners improving the health of children through school-based community health. Previously supported product strategy for Medtronic LABS on developing digital health products to support climate-adaptive health care. She leads the Climate + Policy working group for the Global Digital Health Network, to prepare national health systems to leverage data for climate + health impacts. Prior to these, she worked with Google Health AI and WHO’s digital health and innovation team. During her tenure as Africa regional director for Medic, she helped to design and deploy digital health programs to community health workers in 13 countries in Africa. She is pursuing a doctorate on climate change, AI, and global health with the University of Edinburgh.

Gabrielle Samuel

Executive Committee

Bio

Dr Gabrielle (Gabby) Samuel is Wellcome Research Fellow and Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Health at King’s College London in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and co-Director of SHADE – a research group and network at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies, and the Environment. Her main research interests relate to the social/ethical issues associated with digital health, big data, and AI.

She is trained in sociology and ethics (Medical sociology PhD and Bioethics MA) with a background in the life sciences (Molecular Genetics PhD). She draws mainly on qualitative research methods and has published extensively in the field of biobanking, genomics, digital health, forensic/health genetic technologies, research ethics, and research ethics committees, and social media and AI/big data research.

Gabby is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. She supervises both undergraduate and master’s dissertations and welcomes PhD students. She is also a member of the Digital Environmental Sustainability Ethics and Clinical Ethics and Law in Society research groups at Oxford University – and the King’s Climate Action Network.

Kristina Celentano

Executive Committee

Bio

Kristina (Krissy) Celentano, MPP, PMP, is Owner and Consultant at Koralaide Consulting LLC. Krissy is a results-driven digital health expert with over ten years of experience working on policy, governance, coordination, technical assistance, project management, and strategic planning in high, low and middle-income countries. Prior to starting Koralaide, Krissy served as Senior Health Information Systems Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) where she chaired the Agency Digital Health Work Group, oversaw a mobile health application and supported the development of an agency digital health strategy and vision. Prior to USAID, she served in several capacities at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. While at ONC, Krissy worked with on-the-ground implementers of health information exchange, electronic health records and innovative technologies to support health system strengthening, practice transformation, and systems modernization. Krissy is an Adjunct Instructor of Health Informatics at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and George Washington University. She is also a Global Digital Health Network Advisory Board emeritus.

Members

Name Affiliation
1. Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos Chair, Global Health Digital Innovation Foundation
2. Kristina Celentano Vice Chair, Koralaide consulting
3. Paul Barach School of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University
4. Maryam Lustberg Yale Medical School
5. Maeghan Orton University of Edinburgh
6. Peter Drury Drury Consulting
7. Gabby Samuel King’s College London
8. Peter Benjamin HealthEnabled
9. Raman Muthusamy School of Public Health Sciences and Technology, Malla Reddy Vishwavidyapeeth
10. Abhinavdutt (Abhinav) Singh iRhythm Technologies Inc
11. Imran Arain Syntasa
12. Antony Louis Piriyakumar Douglas Cambridge Institute of Technology
13. Shankar Sridharan NHS
14. Srikanth Mahankali Shree Advisory & Consulting
15. Josué Kossi SROUGBO Digital Medical Hub
16. Hesham Gaafar WHO
17. Heidi Good PATH
18. Bilal Mateen PATH
19. Dimitri Varsamis Global Health Digital Innovation Foundation
20. Srinivas Murri Meta
21. Santanu Sinha Broadcom Inc.
22. Steven Wanyee IntelliSOFT consulting limited
23. Terry Mochire IntelliSOFT consulting limited
24. Faith Mahinda FHI Clinical Inc.
25. Andrei Dusmikeev Breathe Safety Index
26. Sandeep Reddy Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Advancement of Translational AI in Medicine
27. James T Lin Isli Consulting
28. Lynn Brielmaier None
29. Adam Chee National University of Singapore
30. Ivo Petrov Shemha Health
31. Maryam Sherif None
32. Juan José Martí Noguera Digital Mental Health Consortium
33. Rudolf Wagner ADHOCON
34. Ramy Azzam Self-employed
35. Maria Liakata Queen Mary University of London,

36. James Teo NHS
37. Sonali Daniel SCOPE Impact
38. Paul Campbell HealthAI
39. Fatma AbdelSalam Serenity Strategic Partners
40. Jana Alagarajah NHS/Wellcome Trust
41. Oscar Franco Karolinska Institute
42. Ali Humayun Zafar Ministry of Public Health, Qatar
43. Vishwasrao Salunkhe Wolters Kluwer Health
44. Sulekha Chattopadhyay California Environmental Protection Agency
45. Martin Le Jeune Global Health Digital Innovation Foundation
46. Satwik Reddy Jambula Uber
47. Riccardo Vecellio Segate University of Groningen
48. Sana Zia Hassan Ernst and young LLP
49. Linbi Hong Columbia University
50. Tammy Mah-Fraser Alberta Innovates

51. Attrayee Chakraborty Analog Devices
52. Ben Fisher Mobcoder
53. Holly Coole MHRA
54. Porkumaran Karantharaj
Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology
55. Yuanshuai Luo China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd
56. Hassan Naqvi Aga Khan University Hospital
57. Soumya Thomas Anthem Inc.
58. Md. Aminul Islam Bangladesh University of Health Sciences (BUHS)
59. Gulmira Asmaganbetova None
60. Richard Holman Matanta Universitas Hasanuddin
61. Shazia Hassan Deloitte
62. Sreekanth Narayan LTIMIndtree Ltd
63. Siddharth Nandagopal None
64. Rebecca Mieloszyk Upwelling Technologies
65. Oleksii Tumanov Oracle