Championing Open-Source in International Public Health: WHO and GitHub

Recorded: Wednesday July 20, 2022

Webinar Speakers: Ayman Badr, Programme Manager at WHO; Dušan Milovanović, Health Intelligence Architect at WHO; and Mala Kumar, Github’s Director of Tech for Social Good

Join experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and GitHub for a special webinar on open-source public health efforts in WHO, the UN’s international public health agency. WHO is the first UN agency to launch an open-source program office (OSPO).

We invite you to hear from Ayman Badr, Programme Manager at WHO; Dušan Milovanović, Health Intelligence Architect at WHO; and Mala Kumar, Github’s Director of Tech for Social Good.

Learn about:
– The background and motivation for WHO’s open-source program office (OSPO)
– Steps taken to construct WHO’s OSPO
– How the OSPO plays a role inside of the WHO
– The goals of the WHO OSPO for the coming years

We also will have a live Q&A session held at the end of the webinar. Any attendee can participate!

Please find the slides for our GitHub and TODO presenters here: GitHub, TODO.
Please also find the GitHub OSPO-focused blog post here.