Especially when it comes to health.
I am an Associate Director of the MSHI program at Northeastern University’s Vancouver campus. I study and teach in context—evidence, data infrastructure, institutional capacity, and trust—in which health technology can create value equitably. Drawing on work in applied data analytics and health informatics in Rwanda and international clinical research partners, my scholarship separates the signal from the noise.
Five conditions shape whether health technology creates value—and for whom. Select a theme to see how the work maps onto each.
How knowledge is generated, evaluated, and made usable when treatment claims are contested and decisions cannot wait.
The TOGETHER Trial
See the evidence system →Independent software for academic work, social signal intelligence, and trust defense—available to buy, download, or explore.
Mac app for academic workflow
Keep every paper, submission, and revision in one local-first record—authors, versions, journal state—without cloud seats or spreadsheet chaos. Built for academics who were tired of losing track of which version went where.
Social signal intelligence for Mac
Watch topics across social platforms and the web, cluster what emerges into themes, and get digests. Internal Counterforce distribution—password-gated download and setup handbook.
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Detect, map, neutralize misinformation
End-to-end platform for governments and organizations to detect emerging narratives, map amplification networks, and act before harm spreads. First employee and ongoing advisor.
Visit Counterforce →From Northeastern’s MSHI program to Rwanda’s national data platform and the TOGETHER Trial—work that treats evidence, infrastructure, and capacity as the conditions for useful technology.
Preparing globally minded health-informatics leaders to build and govern technology with evidence, context, and care.
An adaptive platform that evaluated repurposed COVID-19 therapies across more than 12,000 patients in six countries.
Leading implementation of a national platform that gave ministry leadership real-time visibility across district health data.
Supporting African Ministries of Health to build clinical-research infrastructure and strengthen biomedical value chains.
Explore how publications connect—citation patterns and thematic clusters mapped with semantic embeddings, UMAP, and density-based clustering.
Start with my network, or generate a temporary view from a Google Scholar profile to see how the landscape of a research program hangs together.
Writing on technology, health, evidence, and trust lives on the blog—an editorial space with its own visual identity.
An algorithm trained far from the ward it enters does not automatically know the constraints of the system it lands in.
Read on the blog →Sixty-six years after computerized diagnosis entered the literature, hesitation may be the right response—if you ask the right questions.
Open →Deepfakes turn visual evidence into a contested public-health resource, not a self-evident fact.
Open →A short credibility block—not a CV dump. Each paper includes why it matters in plain language.
2022 · Evidence
The Lancet Global Health
Shows how adaptive platform trials can turn contested treatment claims into usable evidence at speed.
2022 · Evidence
New England Journal of Medicine
Tests a widely promoted claim under rigorous conditions—evidence as a public good, not a marketing asset.
2022 · Capacity
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Argues that durable trial and response capacity depends on partnership design, not only funding volume.
2015 · Infrastructure
The Lancet HIV
Uses national programme data to make the care cascade visible—and therefore governable—at scale.
2022 · Infrastructure
Clinical trial methods
Documents the operational conditions—sites, data, partnerships—that made rapid evidence generation possible.
I collaborate with researchers, students, ministries, and clinical-research partners working to strengthen health informatics, evidence generation, and research capacity—especially where infrastructure and trust are uneven.