Leadership

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Dr. LeFevre  is the Director of the Evidence for Digital Transformation (EDiT) consortium. She has nearly 30 years of experience conducting large scale evaluations of public health and development programs in over twenty countries globally. Her work explores the  cost, differential reach, and impact of digital health 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, digital health, 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 public health.

Dr. Ummer  is a public health researcher working at the intersection of digital health innovations and health systems research. He co-leads qualitative research activities including cognitive interviewing for the Evidence for Digital Transformation (EDiT) consortium. He brings over a decade of experience supporting evidence generation on the reach and impact of digital health solutions, including maternal messaging programs (Kilkari), mLearning programs (Mobile Academy), and the end-to-end digitization of comprehensive primary healthcare in India.  Prior to his work with EDiT and UCT,  Dr. Ummer has held positions working for  NHSRC (Govt. of India), BBC Media Action, OPM-India, and WHO-India.