Daniel Futerman
Project Director, Consortium Lead, CODA at Vital Strategies
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolDaniel Futerman is a technology leader with 13+ years delivering large-scale digital health and AI/ML solutions across Africa, currently directing the CODA consortium to align AI, research and technical streams. He combines deep technical expertise in data science, interoperability and health systems architecture with strategic program leadership—having built teams that supported >1 million MAU and deployed AI models reaching over 100k users. Past roles include leading GenAI initiatives for maternal health at Reach Digital Health (improving care-seeking and escalations at scale) and architecting award-winning blood safety and national data platforms at Jembi. He publishes and shapes governance, evaluation and standards for responsible AI in low-resource contexts, and has operationalised POPIA-compliant data governance across programs. Based in Johannesburg, he blends academic training in computer science, interaction design and public health with practical experience managing multi-million-dollar grants and remote engineering teams. An understated strength is his ability to translate interoperability standards into deployable national architectures that materially improve maternal and child health outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MTech Interaction Design, MTech Interaction Design at Cape Peninsula University of TechnologyData Science, Data Science at University of Cape Town, South AfricaBSc Honours Computer Science, BSc Honours Computer Science at University of KwaZulu-NatalMasters Public Health, Masters Public Health at University of the Western Cape
Github Skills (23)
health10
monitor9
cdc9
collaboration8
angularjs5
multiselect4
planet4
distro4
angular3
in-progress3
openhie3
select23
index-html2
openmrs2
selectize2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jembi/bsis
May 2013 - Feb 2016
BSIS is a system to monitor blood inventory from collection to transfusion. Started as a collaboration between the Computing For Good (C4G) program at Georgia Tech and the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), the application is now maintained, developed and managed by Jembi Health Systems (JHS), in partnership with Safe Blood for Africa (SBFA) and the Centers for Diseases Control (CDC).
Contributions:17 releases, 673 commits, 127 PRs in 2 years 9 months
inventorymonitorpreventionhealthhealth-systems
jembi/bsis-frontend
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 5 pushes, 8 branches in 10 days
reactbloodfrontendsystem-informationsafety
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