Mark Conde has dedicated more than 40 years to information technology and the application of technology in science. In the last 20 years, he has focused on public health informatics solutions across federal, commercial and academic domains. He has worked with the Association of Public Health Laboratories as the Chair and a member of the informatics committee, focusing on technology solutions, standards and informatics training in the laboratory. In his time as the CIO of the Rollins School of Public Health, he drove the application of many innovative technologies for classrooms, research and operations. Mark serves as the Associate Director of Applied Public Health Informatics for the Rollins Executive MPH program and developed the architecture for the entire curricula.
Elizabeth Sprouse brings 20-plus years of communications and program development work to her focus in clinical and public health informatics. She is the founder of Double Lantern Informatics, a boutique healthcare informatics firm working in both public health and clinical spaces. A Rollins alum, Elizabeth also teaches informatics in the Rollins Executive MPH program and is currently President of the alumni board. “We’re at an exciting tipping point when it comes to informatics – a field that sits between ‘the business’ and technology,” reflects Elizabeth. “The world is now seeing the vast power that technology has to improve the health and well-being of individuals and populations as a whole. There’s a real opportunity to do good and myriad opportunities for entrepreneurs.”
During the Public Health Informatics 101 session, Mark Conde and Elizabeth Sprouse will jump into the concept of systems thinking in taking a broader approach against a problem – leading attendees through tools such as information flow modeling to taking a systems perspective to the information/data within an ecosystem. They will also use examples within public health and clinical informatics (e.g., electronic medical records) to discuss system interoperability and harnessing the capability of application programming interfaces (APIs) to make stronger systems and innovate new solutions (e.g., mobile apps).
