WORK PACKAGE 5 LEAD:
Andrew Boulle and Meg Osler
Andrew Boulle is a public health physician working for the provincial health services in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
He is also a Professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He has worked on various aspects of health information systems, data integration and observational epidemiology for the past thirty years.
He provides technical leadership for health data integration for the Western Cape Health Information Exchange and Provincial Health Data Centre, teach public health to medical students and registrars, and lead a research group which focuses on HIV and TB cohort epidemiology, as well as context-appropriate information systems development.
Within the BRIDGE NETWORK, He co-lead for the University of Cape Town component.
He is based in Cape Town, South Africa
Meg Osler Holds a PhD in Public Health and has over 22 years’ experience leading monitoring and evaluation systems, with 19 years focused on the development and implementation of digital health information systems. She currently works for both the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Western Cape government department of Health in South Africa.
Over the last two decades, she has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, contributing to expert panels on HIV, TB and mother and child health monitoring guidelines as well as guidelines for the transition of health facilities from paper-based to digital systems. Regional work in Southern Africa included leading the development of HIV and TB software scaled up in lower-income country settings as a bridge to online systems.
In her current role with the Western Cape Provincial Health Data Centre, she oversees clinical reporting requirements for the HIV and TB programmes and works closely with the health services to promote the accurate and impactful use of data to improve services delivery and patient care. She collaborates extensively with the provincial compliance and auditing teams, data scientists, and the primary health care services to strengthen data tools, data use and health outcomes. Her professional interests include the development of context-appropriate health information systems, with a particular focus on infectious disease epidemiology and population health surveillance.
Within the BRIDGE NETWORK, she is co-lead for the University of Cape Town component, working alongside other African country leads to support the holistic development of future public health leaders, particularly in data science, health informatics and infectious disease.
She is based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
