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Data for Health in Africa Meeting
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5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
23 - 29 August 2025
CEDI Centre, University of Ghana, Accra


  • Dr William Hersh - Participant

    COBIP: Computational Omics and Biomedical Informatics Program (MPI)

    William Hersh, MD is a Professor in the Division of Informatics, Clinical Epidemiology, and Translational Data Science (DICE) in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. Dr. Hersh is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and research. In education, Dr. Hersh served as Director of OHSU's Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program from 1996-2023 and remains an active faculty member. He is PI of OHSU's NIH National Library of Medicine T15 Training Grant, which is the largest and second-longest training grant at OHSU. Dr. Hersh also spearheaded OHSU's efforts in distance learning in biomedical informatics. He has taught in person and online widely around the world. Dr. Hersh has led a number of innovations in biomedical informatics education. He conceptualized and implemented the first offering of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10x10 ("ten by ten") program, which provides the equivalent of an introductory graduate-level course and has been completed by over 3400 health care professionals and others.