Linda Taylor
Technical Program Manager Analyst at Digital Square at PATH
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolLinda Taylor is a Technical Program Manager Analyst with over a decade of experience and a 25-year career converting complex health challenges into practical digital solutions, primarily across Africa. She specializes in open-source, interoperable health information systems and has led country-led implementations spanning immunization, MNCHN, HIV/TB surveillance, blood safety, and climate–health data efforts. At Digital Square/PATH she drives Digital Public Infrastructure for Climate & Health and led EIR development for Ministries of Health in Ghana, Malawi and Tanzania, combining technical oversight with strong stakeholder engagement. Previously she managed product delivery and multidisciplinary teams at Jembi, translating clinical and policy needs into agile software roadmaps, quality assurance and implementation guides. Known for bridging technology, users and decision-makers, she brings a rare blend of hands-on product management, community advocacy for global goods, and training experience grounded in public health impact.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Information Systems Project Management, Distinction, Diploma, Information Systems Project Management, Distinction at Faculty Training InstituteB.Comm, Information Technology,Business Administration, B.Comm, Information Technology,Business Administration at University of KwaZulu-NatalNational Certificate, Business Analysis, National Certificate, Business Analysis at MICT SETA
Github Skills (7)
health9
mediator9
openhie8
discourse8
cdc1
monitor1
collaboration1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
jembi/openhim-core-js
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
The Open Health Information Mediator core component. OpenHIM Support: Post your query on OpenHIE Discourse using the #openhim tag https://discourse.ohie.org/
Contributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
ohiequerydiscoursecore-componentopenhim
jembi/bsis
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
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:1 comment in 1 day
inventorymonitorpreventionhealthhealth-systems
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