The deepest learning still happens by doing.
Health informatics sits at the centre of an AI-reshaped job market. Graduates have to be ready on day one.
AI is reshaping work across nearly every sector, and health is no exception. For that potential to become better outcomes for patients and populations, people entering the field need a practical skillset—adaptability, evidence literacy, and enough systems knowledge to contribute to institutions that are already in motion.
That is why the institution matters. Northeastern’s premise is that durable learning happens by doing. I bring trial operations, ministry data systems, and applied AI into the MSHI classroom so students learn to study and improve the systems that produce evidence, not only to operate the tools those systems happen to run.
Teaching is not a side activity. Curriculum, mentorship, and program strategy in Vancouver are how this research program reaches the next generation of health informatics leaders.
MSHI Vancouver
Callouts for courses I teach and lead in the Vancouver MS in Health Informatics program.
Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems
How technology, people, and health systems interrelate—and why that relationship, not the tool, decides whether informatics creates value.
The Canadian Healthcare System
The institutional context Canadian informatics graduates actually work in: governance, data flows, and the constraints that theory tends to skip.
Artificial Intelligence and Health Informatics
AI as a health-system problem: evidence, equity, and the conditions under which models should (and should not) enter clinical and public-health work.
I am a global health researcher, clinical trialist, and technologist whose career spans three continents. I serve as Associate Director of the Master of Science in Health Informatics program at Northeastern University’s Vancouver campus.
I spent five years in Rwanda working with the Ministry of Health, leading implementation of a national health informatics platform that aggregated district-level data so ministry leadership could see the system in real time. During that period I also contributed to the planning and execution of ICASA in Kigali in 2019.
Returning to Canada at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I joined the founding team of Purpose Life Sciences and the TOGETHER Adaptive Platform Trial. As global executive director I oversaw more than 12 intervention evaluations from the recruitment of more than 15,000 patients across 22 clinical sites over three years. I later helped launch Purpose Africa, supporting ministries of health to build clinical research infrastructure and strengthen biomedical value chains—work that continues today.
Alongside that global health work I have a deep interest in computer science, put to work as the first employee of Counterforce AI, where I developed social-listening tools to mitigate online disinformation during public health emergencies. I remain an advisor to the platform.
I earned a PhD in Population and Public Health from the University of British Columbia (2022) and an MPH with a global health concentration from Simon Fraser University (2009).
Also: Counterforce AI (advisor) · McMaster University, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact (2022–2025).
Good work requires the right conditions, too.
I collaborate with global researchers, students, ministries, and industry partners working to strengthen health informatics, evidence generation, and clinical and public health research capacity, particularly in contexts where resources, infrastructure and trust are unevenly distributed.