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Masoud Mahundi
Biography
Dr Masoud Mahundi joined the University of Dar es Salam in 2007 as a tutorial assistant, having completed his Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Computer Science at the same University in 2005. He further pursued Masters in Health Informatics, a program that was managed by the University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with the University of Oslo Norway, which he completed in 2010. He later enrolled in a PhD program under the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) fellowship, investigating the management of innovations on health information infrastructures in developing countries. He completed the program in 2021.
From 2005 to 2008, Dr Mahundi has been working with the Ministry of Health Zanzibar as a research assistant under the Health Information Systems Program (HISP) coordinated by the University of Oslo. This assignment in Zanzibar aimed at developing a routine health information system. In 2008, he joined the team in the mainland responsible for the revival of the health information system in Tanzania. Since then, he has been working with the healthcare stakeholders in furthering health information management in Tanzania.
In these assignments, Dr. Mahundi has consulted for
- The World Health Organisation (WHO),
- Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA),
- Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation
- RTI
- The Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH)
- PATH
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr Mahundi has also worked with the National Examination Council of Tanzania (NECTA) as IT Specialist for about two years between 2013 and 2014.
Research Interest
Design and Implementation of Digital Health Infrastructures
Digital Platforms Interoperability
Alignment of Digital Technologies and Strategic Objectives
Contacts
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Projects
Dec 2022 - March 2023: A Research Project on Assessing the effect of COVID-19 on Health Services Provision in Tanzania Mainland. Under the University of Dar es Salaam, working with the WHO and the Ministry of Health Tanzania Mainland
Amount: 125,760,320
Dec 2022 - March 2023: A Research Project on Assessing the effect of COVID-19 on Health Services Provision in Zanzibar. Under the University of Dar es Salaam, working with the WHO and the Ministry of Health Zanzibar
Amount: 71,416,800.00
Jan 2025 - Aug 2025: MSD Integration and Portal Development. Under the University of Dar es Salaam, working with the Medical Stores Department
Amount: 467,937,337.50
Publications
Mahundi, M., Kimaro, H., & Nielsen, P. (2024). Involving Heterogeneous User Groups in Developing Innovations on Digital Platforms in Healthcare.18th IFIP Working Group 9.4 Conference on the Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development.
M. H. Mahundi, “Approaches to managing innovations on information infrastructures : A case of selected e-health innovations in Tanzania,” University of Dar es Salaam, 2021.
N. Collinson, M. Mahundi, and P. Nielsen, “Different Approaches to Complementing Software Platforms: A Case Study of Digital Innovation Across 10 Developing Countries,” in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2020, vol. 2, pp. 14–25, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1_2.
M. H. Mahundi, P. Nielsen, and H. Kimaro, “The social and technical conditions enabling innovations in information infrastructures: A case study from public health in Tanzania,” African J. Sci. Technol. Innov. Dev., vol. 11, no.7, pp. 795–805, 2019, doi: 10.1080/20421338.2019.1594557.
M. H. Mahundi, H. B. Chaula, and F. Igira, “Appreciating local variations in standardising health care data collection processes and tools: A case of health management information system in Tanzania,” Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries., vol. 84, no. 4, 2018, doi: 10.1002/isd2.12031.
M. Mahundi, J. Kaasbøll, and H. Twaakyondo, “Health information systems integration in Tanzania: Tapping the contextual advantages,” 2011.
Amouzou, A., Maïga, A., Faye, C. M., Chakwera, S., Melesse, D. Y., Mutua, M. K., Mahundi M., ... & Boerma, T. (2022). Health service utilisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020: a multicountry empirical assessment with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health services. BMJ global health, 7(5), e008069.
Shabani, J., Masanja, H., Kagoye, S., Minja, J., Bajaria, S., Mlacha, Y., Mahundi M., ... & Hanson, C. (2023). Quality of reporting and trends of emergency obstetric and neonatal care indicators: an analysis from Tanzania district health information system data between 2016 and 2020. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 23(1), 716.