The IntraHealth Informatics Team
IntraHealth’s Informatics team works hand-in-hand with local organizations to strengthen infrastructure and identify key needs. This approach is informed by the organization’s decades of experience in collaboratively developing adaptable tools for improving health care. The team focuses on creating programs that respond directly to the concrete challenges experienced by health care workers in the developing world.
Dykki Settle, HRIS Team Lead
IntraHealth’s Systems and Technology Director since 2001, Dykki Settle has led the production of websites, CD-ROM products, Open Source software and programmatic systems strengthening efforts around the world, performing analysis and implementation in low-resource and minimal infrastructure environments. While an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was the first webmaster and site architect for the SunSITE digital library project and founded the first web consulting and contracting company. After graduation, Mr. Settle developed the first comprehensive corporate and product sales website in the publishing industry for Ventana Communications. Next, Mr. Settle worked as a non-profit information systems consultant and served as senior management for pioneering electronic publishing and commerce companies such as catalogue.com and Network Arts.
Pamela A. McQuide, Workforce Planning and Policy Advisor, the Capacity Project
Dr. McQuide is a health services researcher with over ten years of international experience and expertise in human resources management. A registered nurse and PhD in social policy, Dr. McQuide facilitates health policy leadership groups to identify key issues and needs for developing countries. Previously, she served as the principal investigator/project director for the Kenya Nursing Workforce Project and as a senior research associate at Family Health International. She has also been a research fellow for Massachusetts General and Harvard Medical School, a prenatal care consultant to the European Union, a nurse manager at Colombia Hospital and a technical monitor for USAID, CARE International and the United Nations Population Fund.
Vanessa Spann, Health Informatics Consultant
An information systems generalist with over ten years of development and implementation experience, Vanessa Spann is focused on system deployment, including client-customized design, infrastructure strengthening and stakeholder development and training. Prior to joining IntraHealth, Ms. Spann co-founded MyDailyHealth, an interactive tool designed to provide targeted, daily content and track user progress toward health goals. During the evolution of MyDailyHealth, she worked on the development and integration of a variety of systems built using Open Source, Microsoft and Oracle and implemented customized employee health solutions for industry leaders, including Compaq Computers, Cigna and IBM. Prior to establishing MyDailyHealth, Ms. Spann spent several years working within the non-profit community, first at the Guggenheim Museum and later with Lightworks Technology Foundation.
Shannon Turlington, Senior Systems Development Manager
Shannon Turlington manages information systems and development projects at IntraHealth and leads the development of the iHRIS human resources information system software products used in governments and organizations of developing countries. She oversees the development of information systems, databases and applications and is involved in knowledge management, IT strategic planning and website and electronic media development. She has authored 18 nonfiction reference books and articles on the Internet, information technology, software, and college admissions and financing. A founding partner of DreamTech Enterprises, she has also served as the editor, publisher and content developer for IT publications and websites.
Luke Duncan, Senior Systems Developer
Luke Duncan is the lead technical developer for the Capacity Project’s iHRIS suite of software at IntraHealth. Mr. Duncan designed the precursor versions currently in use in Uganda and Rwanda that were the basis for iHRIS Qualify and Manage. Previously he worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill developing internal applications and reports for the helpdesk. Before that he developed e-commerce sites and online catalogs, as well as authored technical books on emerging Internet technologies.
David Mason, Health Informatics Advisor
David Mason joined the IntraHealth Informatics team to expand the scope of its Open Source initiatives. As a development director for Red Hat’s Linux Operating System, Mr. Mason managed hundreds of developers worldwide to create the market leader in Linux distributions. Additionally, Mr. Mason served as the Director of Red Hat Advanced Development Labs, overseeing top developers working on long-term user interface and technical projects, including the GNOME desktop, GTK+ Widget set, ATK accessibility library and the Pango Internationalization library. Mr. Mason has also worked with GIS engineering, 3D technologies and broadband networking. He co-founded the TechCorps Open Source campaign and election software initiative, and he has presented talks on Free and Open Source software and software development.
Angela Self, Human Resources Information Systems Advisor
Angela Self brings ten years of experience in the information technology support and project management fields and a desire to use technology to improve health care delivery in developing areas. Through the Capacity Project, Ms. Self is working with local stakeholders in Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Tanzania to strengthen their human resources information systems. In addition, she is working on a PEPFAR-funded HRIS inventory project, which seeks to catalog the systems, donors, organizations and stakeholders involved in human resources for health data in the PEPFAR focus countries.
Samwel Wakibi, Human Resources Information Systems Advisor
Based in Kenya, Samwel Wakibi assesses and develops efforts to strengthen human resources for health systems at the ministries of health of countries in the East, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) Health Community. He has over 18 years of experience in IT, social research, project and data management and project monitoring and evaluation in the public and private sectors at both local and international levels. He participated in the development of a budgetary database for the Kenyan government, an Oracle-based hire purchase database and a demographic surveillance system for U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Mr. Wakibi has served as a social researcher with CDC, and as a consultant for Emory University to develop health professions databases for the Nursing Council of Kenya and UNICEF (ESARO) in Swaziland and Ethiopia.
Carl Leitner, Open Source Developer
Carl Leitner is responsible for developing distributed software applications using Open Source technologies, primarily for the Capacity Project’s iHRIS Open Source development initiative and the PEPFAR-funded HRIS inventory project. Dr. Leitner earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Arizona, and he brings this expertise to bear in programming and system administration. He has worked as a research mathematician in Germany and Israel, and he was a system administrator and programmer for ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mark Hershberger, Open Source Developer
Mark Hershberger has been involved in a variety of Open Source projects for the past 10 years. In addition to developing his own weblogging system and later abandoning it for the Open Source LiveJournal platform, he has contributed to Debian, Emacs and a variety of smaller projects. During much of this time he worked as a system administrator and web programmer in the commercial world.
Danny de Vries, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Danny de Vries provides knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation support for HRIS programs in Namibia and Mali. Mr. de Vries is committed to supporting the development of Open Source, web-based mapping applications, GIS programming scripting languages such as Python and the social and temporal dimensions of monitoring technologies, including data-driven decision making and stakeholder building. He has served as a research associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and as a research assistant at the Carolina Population Center and the departments of geography and anthropology at UNC-CH.
Carol Bales, HRIS Associate
Carol Bales provides operational, technical, and knowledge management support to the Capacity Project’s HRIS team. She coordinates logistics and assists in researching, writing and editing technical documents, presentations and other materials. She organizes and maintains an HRIS knowledge sharing site, including a library of documents, an archive of presentations, a travel calendar and a list of deliverables.
