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Supporting Parties
Bethany Hedt
 Bethany is a graduate of the Biostatistics Program at Harvard School of Public Health with a variety of international experience. After completing her undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bethany served two years as a math and science teacher with the Peace Corps in Namibia. She extended her time for a year in Namibia as an HIV Coordinator for the Ministry of Education (Ondangwa-West Region). During her time working towards her PhD, she spent one year as an ASPH/CDC Global Health Fellow in Malawi as a HIV Strategic Information technical assistant. Her thesis, Novel Methods for Efficient Surveillance and Monitoring, introduces less intensive and less expensive methodologies to collect and analyze data to support data-driven program management. She is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard School of Public Health.
Brian DeRenzi
Brian is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Washington, where his research focuses on designing and deploying appropriate and sustainable technologies for healthcare in low-income countries. With a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a M.S. in computer science from the University of Washington for his work with human-computer interaction, Brian has experience with mobile and embedded devices at hardware, software and usability levels. He has worked on the development and testing of electronic IMCI protocols with D-Tree in Tanzania (see article) and is currently on a Fulbright Scholarship to develop mobile protocols for use by community health workers in Tanzania.
Hamish Fraser
 Hamish is an expert in the development and application of medical informatics and telemedicine in resource-poor settings. Originally trained in cardiology, with specialized training in medical informatics, Dr. Fraser serves as Director of Informatics and Telemedicine for Partners In Health, a healthcare NGO active in several developing countries. He is responsible for the design and oversight of the web-based medical record system that supports the management and monitoring of over 4,400 patients on treatment for MDR-TB in Peru and HIV in Haiti. This information system manages clinical data and digital images of X-rays, has the capability to identify patterns in bacteriology results, helps to optimize medication regimens and also predicts future medication requirements. This system is also operational in the Philippines to support the care of MDR-TB in Manila. More recently he has led the development of a web-based medical record system to support the care of 6,000 HIV patients in Haiti, 1,900 of whom are on ARV therapy. The HIV-EMR operates in seven remote clinics accessed by satellite internet and can also be used offline for short periods. This system is now being replicated by his team in Rwanda. Dr. Fraser is also the educational director of a master’s degree program in medical informatics in Durban, South Africa, the first such program in Africa.
Hilary Cranmer
 Hillarie is Associate Director, Harvard International Emergency Medicine Fellowship, and Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard University School of Medicine and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has served as a health worker at Embangweni Hospital in Malawi and as a field officer with Physicians for Human Rights in post-war Kosovo where she taught ultrasonography and trauma management. Initially trained in biomedical engineering, she is a graduate of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and obtained her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health.
Jan Van Esch
 Jan is an anthropologist and public health specialist with 12 years experience in Russia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Tanzania in the areas of HIV/AIDS, child health and health systems management. Jan has a Master of Science in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health and a Dutch Master’s Degree in Anthropology. Prior to joining D-tree, Jan worked for PharmAccess in Nigeria and Tanzania, where his work focused on public-private partnerships, primarily in the area of health insurance, and also for Doctors without Borders in Russia.
Thomas Routen
 Tom Routen has a mix of academic and professional software experience.After studying philosophy, he worked as a researcher in Logic Programming at Imperial College, London and later spent several years teaching AI, computer science, and psychology at De Montfort University in Leicester. He founded his own software company in Basel in Switzerland in 2000 which has executed projects for swiss pharmaceutical and banking corporates.
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