Dr Louise Schaper is an innovator and a change agent who doesn’t sit still and whose passion and enthusiasm for digital health and health informatics is contributing to shaping the future of Australian healthcare. Her appointment as CEO came on the back of 10+ years of experience in, and applied passion for, health informatics. With a background as an occupational therapist and a PhD on technology acceptance amongst healthcare professionals, Louise is a world leader in allied health informatics and is intimately connected to Australia’s substantial health reform efforts, where digital health is a key enabler to achieving high quality, safe, sustainable and patient-centred care. In addition to her leadership of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Louise was on the Advisory Board for Stanford Medicine X 2013  conference, was part of the Australian Digital Health Agency’s Clinical Leads team and previously chaired the E-Health International Advisory Group of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists.

Dr Louise Schaper is an innovator and a change agent who doesn’t sit still and whose passion and enthusiasm for digital health and health informatics is contributing to shaping the future of Australian healthcare. Her appointment as CEO came on the back of 10+ years of experience in, and applied passion for, health informatics. With a background as an occupational therapist and a PhD on technology acceptance amongst healthcare professionals, Louise is a world leader in allied health informatics and is intimately connected to Australia’s substantial health reform efforts, where digital health is a key enabler to achieving high quality, safe, sustainable and patient-centred care. In addition to her leadership of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Louise was on the Advisory Board for Stanford Medicine X 2013  conference, was part of the Australian Digital Health Agency’s Clinical Leads team and previously chaired the E-Health International Advisory Group of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists.

Having worked in the health service for 30 year in various positions most recently as the CIO for NHS Wales I joined FEDIP to focus on building the profession that supports and develops informatics / Digital people with expertise in the health and social care sector. FEDIP’s vision is to achieve professionalisation through professional regulation and the unification of the various Health and Care Informatics communities of interest through partnership and collaboration. The federation brings individuals and organisations together to establish professional standards in health informatics and maintain a public register of experienced practitioners – offering greater confidence to employers, clients, colleagues, government and the wider society. Its aim is to ensure that people working in digital health maintain the highest standards for the safety and protection of the public as well as for assurance of their own professional development.

A registered nurse, Professor in Applied Practice with a MSc in Change & Innovation. Dean of the Institute of Management and Health at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Fellow of the BCS, board member of Federation of Informatics Professionals as well as holding Leading Practitioner status.

Dr Alain Labrique is the Director for the Department of Digital Health and Innovation at the World Health Organization. He is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative and 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. Alain has led research in maternal, neonatal, and infant health in resource limited settings and was recognized as one of the Top 11 mHealth Innovators in 2011. He served as a lead author on the 2012 Bellagio Declaration on mHealth Evidence. In 2018, he was awarded the Excellence in International Public Health Practice Award and a Distinguished Alumnus award from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr Osama Elhassan carries more 25 years of experience in digital transformation and advanced computing. He co-founded ZIMAM in 2016 to promote digital health across GCC countries, through continuous education and competency-based career-paths development. He is also an elected board of member of several local, regional and international Scientific and non-for-profit organizations such as Emirates Health Informatics Society, the Middle East and North Africa Health Informatics Society and the Roaster of Healthcare IT Experts at World Health Organization.

Greg Moran is the Director Strategy and Workforce Advancement for the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH). In this role he leads the AIDH workforce and industry certification programs, as well as delivering on the national digital health workforce program in partnership with the Australian Digital Health Agency. The national program is working with the health sector key stakeholders to build foundational digital health workforce frameworks, professional and specialty resources and tools. Greg is a Certified Health Informatician of Australasia (CHIA).