Oumou Kalsom Diallo is a Senegalese civil servant who has been working for 23 years to develop the Public Health Information System. She holds a degree in computer engineering from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD). She also holds a degree in Management/Monitoring-Evaluation, Management and Methods of Project Monitoring-Evaluation and Monitoring-Evaluation of political health policies and initiatives from Illinois State University in the United States of America.
Oumou Kalsom has successfully completed the Professional Development Program at the University of California, UCLA Extension. She holds several certifications, including CESAC’s Certificate in Health Statistics Development and TOGAF in Enterprise Architecture, an approach to the digital transformation of programs and projects.
She is responsible for the unified, computerized health information system. She is the main administrator of the DHIS2 platform in Senegal, which is the national health data warehouse. As such, its role includes guaranteeing the use of this platform by all health structures to improve data management and better decision-making for the benefit of the population’s health.
Oumou Kalsom has headed the IT team that set up this system since 2012. She is a Founding Member of AWIDH, the African women’s movement for digitalization, set up in October 2022.
She is the author of several publications in the field of digital health presented at international conferences. The latest, presented at the Annual Experts Conference in OSLO, is entitled “Strengthening case-based surveillance Epidemic disease detection: digitization of IDSR with integration of surveillance and laboratory data using DHIS-Tracker”.