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Alain Labrique

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Alain Labrique
 
Born
Dhaka, Bangladesh
CitizenshipBelgian
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BS)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MS) Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (MHS)

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (PhD)
OccupationInfectious disease epidemiologist
Children2

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General overview

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Alain Bernard Labrique, PhD, MHS, MS, is a  public health researcher, and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[1] and the current director of the World Health Organization's Department of Digital Health and Innovation.[2] As a figure at the forefront of the developing mobile health (mHealth) field, Labrique was named one of the Top 11 Innovators in mHealth by the Rockefeller Foundation and mHealth Alliance in 2011.[3] He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Open Digital Health,[4] and served as WHO's co-chair for their Digital Health Guidelines Development Group.[5] He held a prominent role in Johns Hopkins' JiVitA Population Research Site in Bangladesh from 2001 to 2013, a project which furthered his interest in researching maternal, neonatal, and infant health in resource-limited settings.[6] Until September 2022, Labrique held the post of Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2011, he founded the Center for Global Digital Health Innovation (formerly the Global mHealth Initiative).[7] Labrique's published work on using mHealth strategies for strengthening health care systems remains among some of the most cited resources in peer-reviewed literature.[8]

Early life and education

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Alain Labrique was born on in Dhaka, Bangladesh.[9] At the time, his father, Benoit Labrique, was serving as the Belgian Embassy as the Chargé d'Affairs / 1st Secretary to Bangladesh.[10] Labrique's mother Lorna Patricia D'reego is an Indian national. Labrique's mother suffered near-fatal complications during his birth, an event that would later influence his career working on improving maternal and neonatal health globally. He has one sister, Françiose[9].

Labrique graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996 with his Bachelor's of Science in Biology, continuing on to earn his Master's of Science in Molecular Biology the following year, as a member of the Bloom Lab[9].

Labrique received his Master's of Health Sciences degree in Epidemiology in 1999 from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he would then go on to earn his PhD in Epidemiology/Infectious Diseases in 2007[1].

Early career

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While completing his PhD at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Labrique served as a research associate and, eventually, project scientist for the JiVitA project. Begun in 1998 in Gaibandha, Bangladesh,  researchers sought to reduce the number of maternal deaths in the community by providing pregnant women with weekly supplements of Vitamin A or beta carotene for the duration of their pregnancy, as well as the period immediately postpartum[6]. In his role as research associate, Labrique oversaw field operations of the JiVitA Population Research Site, published research findings, and established relationships with South Asian and Bangladesh government and non-government agencies. His involvement with JiVitA would continue through 2007, when he was appointed assistant professor in the Department of International Health and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. He continued to provide support to the project's field operations until 2013.

In 2011, the Rockefeller Foundation and the mHealth Alliance named Labrique one of the Top 11 Innovators in Mobile Health for his work developing the mCARE program in Bangladesh.[11] A collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, mPower Health, and the JiVitA Maternal Child Health and Nutrition Research Project, the mCARE program sought to close the socioeconomic gap in mobile phone use to access skilled maternal health care in rural Gaibandha, Bangladesh. mCARE, built on the WHO-supported OpenSRP[12] platform, streamlines FHWs' daily schedules and patient interactions, ensuring comprehensive ANC and PNC services while capturing service records for performance tracking. Labrique stated, "We are hoping that we can use ubiquitous, local mobile technologies to connect people to appropriate care, compress the time between crises and care, and create new opportunities for targeted intervention to further reduce the number of unnecessary neonatal deaths we see each year."[11]

From 2011 until May 2022, Labrique was the director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative. Now the Center for Global Digital Health Innovation, the Initiative functions as an interdisciplinary collaborative effort to "develop responsive innovations and provide rigorous evidence-based support for mobile ICTs to improve global health with a focus on resource-limited settings where the global burden of disease and mortality are highest."[7]

World Health Organization

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After a long association with the World Health Organization, including chairing the mHealth Technical Evidence Review Group on Evidence, Impact and Scale in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in 2012-2013[8], Labrique was appointed as the co-chair of the Digital Health Guideline Development Group in January 2018.[13] Having identified mobile phones as valuable tools for obtaining access to health care in areas of the world lacking in infrastructure, the group sought to develop a guideline for the use of digital devices that incorporated careful examination of the evidence surrounding the leveraging of such tools in regions facing challenges in health care delivery. In 2019, the World Health Organization released its first-ever Digital Health Guideline, with accompanying information on the evidence backing each recommendation, as well as the level of risk associated with it.[14]

 

This was followed by Labrique's appointment in September 2019 to WHO's Digital Health Roster of Experts, a collection of specialists in various areas relating to digital health that consulted with WHO's newly created Digital Health Department. Labrique continued serving both on the Digital Health Guidelines Development Group and on the Digital Health Roster of Experts until being appointed Director of WHO's Department of Digital Health and Innovation in September 2022. Under Labrique's guidance, the Department is committed to expanding the use of digital technologies in low-to-middle income countries[15] including launching important new initiatives such as a the Global Initiative on Digital Health[16]

Personal life

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Labrique is married to Kimberly Labrique, a retired high school biology teacher. Together, they have two children.

Selected Works & Publications

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  1. Labrique, Alain B., Lavanya Vasudevan, Erica Kochi, Robert Fabricant, and Garrett Mehl. "mHealth innovations as health system strengthening tools: 12 common applications and a visual framework." Global health: science and practice 1, no. 2 (2013): 160-171.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25276529/
  2. Agarwal, Smisha, Amnesty E. LeFevre, Jaime Lee, Kelly L'engle, Garrett Mehl, Chaitali Sinha, and Alain Labrique. "Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist." bmj 352 (2016). https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1174
  3. Booth, Adam, Angus Bruno Reed, Sonia Ponzo, Arrash Yassaee, Mert Aral, David Plans, Alain Labrique, and Diwakar Mohan. "Population risk factors for severe disease and mortality in COVID-19: A global systematic review and meta-analysis." PloS one 16, no. 3 (2021): e0247461. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33661992/
  4. Agarwal, Smisha, Henry B. Perry, Lesley‐Anne Long, and Alain B. Labrique. "Evidence on feasibility and effective use of mHealth strategies by frontline health workers in developing countries: systematic review." Tropical medicine & international health 20, no. 8 (2015): 1003-1014. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25881735/
  5. Mathews, Simon C., Michael J. McShea, Casey L. Hanley, Alan Ravitz, Alain B. Labrique, and Adam B. Cohen. "Digital health: a path to validation." NPJ digital medicine 2, no. 1 (2019): 38. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-019-0111-3
  6. Limaye, Rupali Jayant, Molly Sauer, Joseph Ali, Justin Bernstein, Brian Wahl, Anne Barnhill, and Alain Labrique. "Building trust while influencing online COVID-19 content in the social media world." The Lancet digital health 2, no. 6 (2020): e277-e278. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30084-4/fulltext
  7. Grantz, K.H., Meredith, H.R., Cummings, D.A., Metcalf, C.J.E., Grenfell, B.T., Giles, J.R., Mehta, S., Solomon, S., Labrique, A., Kishore, N. and Buckee, C.O., 2020. The use of mobile phone data to inform analysis of COVID-19 pandemic epidemiology. Nature communications, 11(1), p.4961. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18190-5
  8. Labrique, Alain B., Christina Wadhwani, Koku Awoonor Williams, Peter Lamptey, Cees Hesp, Rowena Luk, and Ann Aerts. "Best practices in scaling digital health in low and middle income countries." Globalization and health 14 (2018): 1-8. https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-018-0424-z
  9. Klemm, R.D., Labrique, A.B., Christian, P., Rashid, M., Shamim, A.A., Katz, J., Sommer, A. and West Jr, K.P., 2008. Newborn vitamin A supplementation reduced infant mortality in rural Bangladesh. Pediatrics, 122(1), pp.e242-e250. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18595969/
  10. Rah, Jee H., Parul Christian, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Ummeh T. Arju, Alain B. Labrique, and Mahbubur Rashid. "Pregnancy and lactation hinder growth and nutritional status of adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh." The Journal of nutrition 138, no. 8 (2008): 1505-1511. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18641198/
  11. Mahmood, Sultan, Khaled Hasan, Michelle Colder Carras, and Alain Labrique. "Global preparedness against COVID-19: we must leverage the power of digital health." JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 6, no. 2 (2020): e18980. https://publichealth.jmir.org/2020/2/e18980/
  12. Christian, Parul, Saijuddin Shaikh, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Sucheta Mehra, Lee Wu, Maithilee Mitra, Hasmot Ali et al. "Effect of fortified complementary food supplementation on child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster-randomized trial." International journal of epidemiology 44, no. 6 (2015): 1862-1876. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26275453/
  13. West, Keith P., Parul Christian, Alain B. Labrique, Mahbubur Rashid, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Rolf DW Klemm, Allan B. Massie et al. "Effects of vitamin A or beta carotene supplementation on pregnancy-related mortality and infant mortality in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomized trial." Jama 305, no. 19 (2011): 1986-1995. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1161866
  14. West, Keith P., Abu Ahmed Shamim, Sucheta Mehra, Alain B. Labrique, Hasmot Ali, Saijuddin Shaikh, Rolf DW Klemm et al. "Effect of maternal multiple micronutrient vs iron–folic acid supplementation on infant mortality and adverse birth outcomes in rural Bangladesh: the JiVitA-3 randomized trial." Jama 312, no. 24 (2014): 2649-2658. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25536256/
  15. Mehl, Garrett, and Alain Labrique. "Prioritizing integrated mHealth strategies for universal health coverage." Science 345, no. 6202 (2014): 1284-1287. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1258926
  16. Colder Carras, Michelle, Antonius J. Van Rooij, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Joseph Kvedar, Mark D. Griffiths, Yorghos Carabas, and Alain Labrique. "Commercial video games as therapy: A new research agenda to unlock the potential of a global pastime." Frontiers in psychiatry 8 (2018): 300. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29403398/
  17. Uddin, Md Jasim, Md Shamsuzzaman, Lily Horng, Alain Labrique, Lavanya Vasudevan, Kelsey Zeller, Mridul Chowdhury, Charles P. Larson, David Bishai, and Nurul Alam. "Use of mobile phones for improving vaccination coverage among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets of Bangladesh." Vaccine 34, no. 2 (2016): 276-283. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26647290/
  18. Higgs, Elizabeth S., Allison B. Goldberg, Alain B. Labrique, Stephanie H. Cook, Carina Schmid, Charlotte F. Cole, and Rafael A. Obregón. "Understanding the role of mHealth and other media interventions for behavior change to enhance child survival and development in low-and middle-income countries: an evidence review." Journal of health communication 19, no. sup1 (2014): 164-189. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25207452/
  19. Agarwal, Smisha, and Alain Labrique. "Newborn health on the line: the potential mHealth applications." Jama 312, no. 3 (2014): 229-230. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24953141/
  20. Agarwal, Smisha, Amnesty E. LeFevre, Jaime Lee, Kelly L'engle, Garrett Mehl, Chaitali Sinha, and Alain Labrique. "Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist." bmj 352 (2016). https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1174

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Alain Labrique | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health". publichealth.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  2. ^ "Alain Labrique - Ehealthresearch.no (NO)". ehealthresearch.no. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
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  4. ^ "Editorial Board". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  5. ^ "International Health Faculty Key Contributors to First WHO Guideline on Digital Interventions for Health Systems Strengthening | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health". publichealth.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
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  8. ^ a b "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  9. ^ a b c "Alain B. Labrique". labs.bio.unc.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  10. ^ service public federal affaires etrangeres, commerce exterieur et cooperation au developpement. "Ordres nationaux Ordre de Léopold Par arrêté royal du 13 février 2005 ont été nommés : Chevalier Le père Michel Windey, jésuite, Fondateur et Directeur de « Village Reconstruction Organisation » en Inde. M. Pierre Pringiers, Chef d'e Par arrêté royal du 17 septembre 2005 a été nommé: Chevalier M. Benoît Labrique, ancien (...)". etaamb.openjustice.be (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  11. ^ a b "Bloomberg Faculty Honored for mHealth Innovation | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health". publichealth.jhu.edu. 2011-12-04. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  12. ^ "OpenSRP – Open-source smart register platform (SRP)". Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  13. ^ "Alain Labrique, Author at The Global Governance Project". The Global Governance Project. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  14. ^ "Recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening". www.who.int. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  15. ^ "Digital Health and Innovation". www.who.int. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  16. ^ "Global Initiative on Digital Health". www.who.int. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
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