Mark Herringer
Director at The Global Healthsites Mapping Project
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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SeniorMark Herringer is a director and data steward with 11 years of experience building open-data collaboratives that power global health responses, most notably as co-founder of the Global Healthsites Mapping Project which maintains a widely used, openly licensed global baseline of health facility locations. He leads cross-functional teams to design human-centered digital products and APIs that prioritize data accuracy, security, and accessibility, translating messy local data into validated open datasets shared via OpenStreetMap. Mark combines hands-on agile delivery and UX practice from a long digital product career with field experience responding to COVID-19, Ebola and Zika in West Africa, giving him a rare mix of technical, operational and humanitarian expertise. Based in Amsterdam, he is passionate about using open data as a public good to reveal vulnerabilities in health systems and drive community-level impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
sanitation10
openstreetmap10
facilities10
health10
django10
python9
commons9
open-data9
javascript6
poc4
editor4
alerts2
security1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
healthsites/emergency-health-data
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
ISIDOrg/MRIIDS
Jun 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:7 branches, 4 issues in 2 years 2 months
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