Mahesh Appannan - Director, Digital Health Division at Ministry Of Health, Malaysia (KKM)

Mahesh Appannan

Director, Digital Health Division at Ministry Of Health, Malaysia (KKM)

Selangor, Malaysia

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Mahesh Appannan is Director of the Digital Health Division at Malaysia’s Ministry of Health, bringing a public health leadership trajectory from clinical roles to senior epidemiology and digital public health posts. With a Doctorate and MPH from the University of Malaya and executive training at Harvard Medical School, he blends clinical insight with health systems leadership and emergency management experience from a CDC fellowship. He currently leads efforts in infectious disease surveillance and predictive modeling, contributing data-science work to the widely used MoH-Malaysia/covid19-public repository analyzing vaccination effects on deaths and CFR. Mahesh is known for translating time-series epidemiological data into actionable policy insights and operational dashboards across national programs. Based in Selangor, he pairs hands-on data analysis skills with strategic stewardship of digital health initiatives during large-scale immunization and epidemic responses.

4 years of coding experience

1 year of employment as a software developer

Pre-School, Pre-School at Esther Kindergarden

Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia, Secondary Education, Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia, Secondary Education at Sekolah Tinggi Port Dickson

South Australian Matriculation, Pre-University, South Australian Matriculation, Pre-University at Taylor's College

Leadership in Medicine, Health/Health Care Administration/Management, Leadership in Medicine, Health/Health Care Administration/Management at Harvard Medical School

Fellowship in Public Health Emergency Management, Public Health, Fellowship in Public Health Emergency Management, Public Health at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah, Primary Education, Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah, Primary Education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Port Dickson

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.), Medicine, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.), Medicine at Melaka Manipal Medical College

Doctorate in Public Health, Public Health, Doctorate in Public Health, Public Health at University of Malaya

Github Skills (12)

vi10

data-analysis10

data-visualizations10

pandas10

data-visualization10

data-visualisation10

python10

co10

covid-testing10

matplotlib10

time-series9

seaborn9

Programming languages (3)

TypeScriptJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

MoH-Malaysia/covid19-public

Jul 2021 - Jan 2023

Official data on the COVID-19 epidemic in Malaysia. Powered by CPRC, CPRC Hospital System, MKAK, and MySejahtera.

Role in this project:

Data Scientist

Contributions:2438 commits, 90 PRs, 2434 pushes in 1 year 6 months

Contributions summary:Mahesh's contributions primarily revolve around data analysis and processing related to the COVID-19 epidemic in Malaysia. Their initial commit involves setting up the data analysis environment and importing necessary libraries. Subsequent commits focus on analyzing death data, including creating charts related to case trends and deaths per capita by vaccination status, as well as the creation of a notebook related to CFR by vaccination status, thereby contributing to the project's goal of tracking the coronavirus and healthcare data. This work demonstrates the user's ability to work with time series data and analyze the effects of vaccination.

hospitalepidemicsports-datahealthcare

MoH-Malaysia/data-pekab40-public

Oct 2022 - Mar 2023

Contributions:152 commits, 800 pushes in 5 months

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