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Dr Marc Mitchell

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Dr. Marc Mitchell, Founder and President of D-International, is a pediatrician and management specialist who has worked in over 35 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on the design and delivery of health care services. He is a Lecturer on Global Health at Harvard University School of Public Health where his areas of expertise include child health, health management, health systems design, program development and evaluation. He has done training and consulting for a wide variety of organizations including the US Government (USAID, CDC and NIH), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, The African Development Bank, the National Health Service in the UK, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the United Nations (UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO), and private foundations and organizations.

Dr. Mitchell began his international career as a pediatrician at a hospital in rural Tanzania, where he saw first hand children dying from measles, diarrheal disease, and malaria due to poor management of public health programs. Since then, he has worked at every level of the health infrastructure in varied roles including Assistant Secretary of Health in Papua New Guinea, Family Planning Advisor to the National Family Planning Program of Indonesia (BKKBN), Team Leader in the development of country strategies in Pakistan, Niger, Haiti, Senegal, and The Philippines, and Technical Director of a large international Reproductive Health consulting project at Management Sciences for Health in Boston.

Dr. Mitchell's research interests focus on the use of electronic protocols to increase access to high quality health care for the world's poor. In 2004 this led to the founding of D-tree whose mission is to develop and support electronic clinical protocols that enable health care workers worldwide to deliver high quality care. Through this work he has become a specialist in the use of mobile technology to improve health care delivery worldwide. Dr. Mitchell holds degrees from Harvard University (BA, 1970), Boston University (MD, 1974), and MIT's Sloan School of Management (MS, 1985).