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Date: June 16, 2026
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Start Time: 9:00 am
End Time: 10:00 am
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Location: Online
On Tuesday, June 16, ICAP presented this Grand Rounds Webinar on the latest advances in using mobile phones for surveys in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). As phone surveys have increased in LMIC over the last decade, there has been a need to understand how and when they can be used to create quality results. In this webinar, experts in digital health and innovative approaches to collecting and analyzing health and population data discuss the latest technologies and methodologies for applying mobile phone technology to bring increased depth and accuracy to surveys in these country contexts.
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Huguette Diakabana is a global health, responsible AI, and digital transformation researcher and practitioner on a mission to bridge the gap between people and quality healthcare through innovative technologies. With extensive experience deploying tech-based solutions across education, rural development, mining, and global health, she has led transformative programs in over 50 countries across Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. She is founder of the Luminous Agency Inc. Formerly co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Technical Advisory Group, Diakabana currently collaborates with organizations and governments to scale AI solutions that enhance health service quality. She is a senior fellow and global innovator at the Aspen Institute and lecturer at Harvard Medical School’s Division of Corporate Learning, and contributing lecturer at Harvard Business School Online. |
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Charles Lau, PhD, MS is Deputy Global Research director at Gallup. He is a survey methodologist with 15 years of experience designing, implementing, and analyzing data from global surveys. Lau is a member of the leadership team and questionnaire lead for the Gallup World Poll, an annual survey of 140 countries conducted since 2005. He has led numerous large-scale, multi-country, complex surveys for government, NGO, academic, and commercial clients. Lau serves on the Steering Committee and is the lead technical editor for the United Nations Handbook of Surveys on Households and Individuals. He has published over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles on survey methodology. |
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Abigail (Abba) Greenleaf, PhD, assistant professor at ICAP at Columbia University and the Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, is a public health demographer whose research focuses on collecting data in low- and middle-income countries where using cell phones to survey populations is an increasingly viable methodology. Dr. Greenleaf currently works with ICAP’s Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA) project. Carried out under the leadership of national ministries of health, PHIA data benchmark a country’s progress towards controlling the HIV epidemic. She co-teaches “Research Design and Data Collection” for public health graduate students and an undergraduate class, “Data Science and Health Equity in New York City.” |
