Dr Beth Dunbar

Beth Dunbar is Deputy Director of the Digital Initiatives Group at the University of Washington, a health informatics center that builds open-source digital health systems in partnership with governments around the world. She leads both human centered design research and technical project management across the group's portfolio.

Beth currently leads the human centered design research for the RHD SHIELD led by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Washington, Uganda Heart Institute, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Menzies School of Health Research, and Maluk Timor. Earlier in her career, she worked on public health informatics for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and spent six years directing monitoring, evaluation, and informatics teams for Partners In Health in Liberia and Malawi.

She holds a doctorate and a master's in Human Centered Design and Engineering from the University of Washington, and a master's in public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.