Our human resource capacity has grown substantially in quality and quantity over the past 21 years. Currently, the UDSM DHIS2 lab comprises a large team of over thirty (30) academic (~50%) and full-time technical staff (~50%) who have accumulated extensive local and international experience and broad knowledge of software development, Data Analytics, and information systems design & implementation in Africa and beyond using DHIS2/OpenMRS platforms and other related digital technologies. Our dynamic academic & technical team includes skilled and experienced staff of different levels of expertise and education with Ph.D., Master’s, and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Health Informatics, Data Science, Business IT, and Health Information Systems. We currently have more than twelve (12) full-time tech developers, five (5) full-time System Analysts, and 13 academic staff with specialties in modern requirement gathering and analysis, advanced software engineering and development, software and testing, quality assurance, Data analytics, and visualization, AI/ML, training and capacity building, project management, and M&E. Some of the Academic staff ( 6) are undertaking their PhD studies within the ongoing projects as action researchers.
