Alain Labrique

Alan Labrique

Role:  Senior TPC & Track chair for “mhealth for global health in low and middle income settings”
Affiliation: Global mHealth Initiative, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Dr. Alain Labrique is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, a multi-disciplinary consortium registering over 82 faculty projects and 150 students engaged in mHealth innovation and research across Johns Hopkins University. An infectious disease epidemiologist by training, with a background in molecular biology and over a decade of field experience running large population-based research studies, Dr. Labrique serves on the faculty in the Global Disease Epidemiology and Control Program of the Department of International Health. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Community-Public Health in the School of Nursing of Johns Hopkins University. He is lead investigator in several research projects measuring the impact of mobile information and communications technologies on improving maternal, neonatal and infant outcomes in resource-limited settings, primarily in South Asia.

Dr. Labrique is also actively engaged in designing and exploring appropriate diagnostic and public health technologies, and is the inventor of a number of devices (3 patents pending), including the Portable Field Dark Adaptometer – a novel device currently being validated as a non-invasive method for vitamin A assessment.