Dykki Settle, Health Informatics

“My mission is to support every country and person who wishes to fully participate in the information economy, balancing power inequities wherever possible, starting with the very basic right of every person to health and well-being.” 

Dykki Settle leads IntraHealth and CapacityPlus efforts in health worker informatics, bringing a health worker-centered approach to the availability and use of high quality information for better health.

Settle’s areas of leadership include the development and implementation of Open Source human resources for health  information solutions; helping countries build absorptive capacity for new health technologies; and supporting regional and country health organizations to realize the power of Open Source for global health.

Settle began his career as the first webmaster for the SunSITE project—now www.ibiblio.org, one of the earliest, largest and longest-running online libraries of open resources.

Recent Publications

Is Open Source Good for Global Health? – Global Health Magazine (Spring - May 2009)

Monitoring and Evaluation of Human Resources for Health – (contributing author) WHO/World Bank/USAID (2009)

Information Technology and Health Systems Strengthening – Global Health Magazine (Jan 2010)

Expertise

  • Open Source for global health
  • Building capacity for eHealth, mHealth, and health informatics around the world
  • Health workforce surveillance—using better information and technology to understand and address country health workforce challenges
  • Health systems strengthening

Countries

Bangladesh, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, India, Lesotho, Rwanda, Pakistan, Senegal, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda

Education

BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill