Jonathan Payne
Affiliated Scientist
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Payne is an affiliated scientist and global health informatics entrepreneur with 13 years of experience designing and deploying digital health systems in low- and middle-income countries. He founded the Open Concept Lab to lower barriers to terminology interoperability and has led national eHealth strategy and large-scale data-use initiatives for governments and multilateral partners including Nigeria, Ethiopia, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His work spans hands-on mobile clinical tools for community health workers to architecture and standards adoption (HL7 FHIR, ISO TC215) and practical economic/impact modeling for telecom engagement. Jonathan combines academic teaching at Boston University with consulting through Global Connect Development Group, blending implementation experience with policy and standards advocacy. A self-described “open-source terminology geek,” he prioritizes cloud-native, community-supported tooling that enables sustainable data use in resource-constrained health systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
International Public Health/International Health, International Public Health/International Health at Boston University School of Public HealthBachelors of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering & Mathematics, Bachelors of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering & Mathematics at Vanderbilt UniversityMS, Global Health and Population, MS, Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Github Skills (15)
ocl10
api10
python-development10
terminology10
python10
django10
vectorization8
openmrs7
semantic-search7
data-mapping7
metadata6
java4
ai4
nodejs3
servicenow1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenConceptLab/ocl-docs
Jan 2021 - Apr 2026
Consolidated documentation for OCL available at https://docs.openconceptlab.org/
Contributions:1 review, 95 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
ocl
pepfar-datim/DATIM-OCL-Scripts
Aug 2017 - Aug 2024
Integration scripts for the PEPFAR DATIM Data Alignment Activity
Contributions:13 PRs, 195 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 1 month
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