Susannah Robinson, Consultant at the World Health Organization (WHO)

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Susannah Robinson specialises in digital health policy. She is a consultant at the World Health Organization with a focus on how mobile health services for chronic diseases can be used in national health systems. She also works on digital strategy with the UK health agency Public Health England.

Prior to joining WHO Susannah worked with the UK Cabinet Office and has experience in global health research, technology and investment philanthropy.

She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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‘What Goes Up, Must Come Down’: The Open Data Loop

‘Open data’ has become a buzzword in the development community. The excitement rests largely on an assumption that our ability to collect increasingly large amounts of data will automatically improve the quality of aid programs. But as the well-worn quote from Einstein goes: Information is not knowledge. To use data to strengthen development efforts, we need to ensure that data are actively and visibly incorporated into development practice and policies, thereby closing the feedback loop between development data and development action.

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Susannah Robinson

Consultant at the World Health Organization (WHO)

Biography

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‘What Goes Up, Must Come Down’: The Open Data Loop

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