Speakers

Oommen is a physician, public health researcher with a special interest in health informatics and implementation science. He completed his MD in Internal Medicine from CMC, Ludhiana and an Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He leads the Health Systems Design portfolio at India Country office of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation India country office and supports the primary healthcare work in the South East Asia region.

He is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Health Science Informatics, a conjoint lecturer at Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney and Professor at Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education and an associate editor of Oxford Open Digital Health.

He has served as the President of the Indian Association for Medical Informatics and Secretary of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics, member of the scientific advisory committee at Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics (FIND), Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health, WHO Digital Health Guidelines Development Group and ITU-WHO focus group on Artificial Intelligence for Health.