Leadership

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Dr. LeFevre  is the Director of the EDiT consortium. She has nearly 30 years of experience conducting large scale evaluations of health and development programs in over twenty countries globally. Her work explores the  cost, differential reach, and impact of digital innovations on development and health outcomes. Dr. LeFevre leads multidisciplinary research teams to working to generate robust, timely evidence to inform the design and impact of large scale digital solutions.

Dr. Scott is a social scientist whose research focuses on power, gender, accountability, and community health systems. She has examined these topics through a variety of studies, including an impact evaluation of the world’s largest maternal mHealth messaging program. Dr. Scott has also made contributions to methodological innovation on the use of cognitive interviewing to improve survey research in global health.

Dr. Ummer is a public health researcher with a special focus on health system research including community health workers, gender, and digital health. He brings over a decade of experience supporting evidence generation on the reach and impact of digital solutions, including maternal messaging programs in India (Kilkari), mLearning programs (Mobile Academy), and the end-to-end digitization of comprehensive primary healthcare in India.  Prior to his work with UCT, Dr. Ummer has held positions working for BBC Media Action, OPM-India, and WHO-India. He is also a doctoral candidate at the school of public health, University of Cape Town.