Health Informatics Officer at Jhpiego - John Hopkins University

Overview

• Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is implementing digital health solutions to support public health programs. As part of ongoing system improvements and program expansion, Jhpiego seeks a to hire a competent individual to implement a series of technical developments, enhancements, refinements, and compliance updates for its mobile health applications.

Responsibilities

• Implement mobile app changes collated from visits from project supported states.
• Update and integrate Predictive Analysis into new and existing mobile applications.
• Improve the Mobile applications based on feedback loop during data synchronization operations.
• Implement historical risk score view on all developed mobile applications.
• Enhance the monthly in-app pulse surveys and feedback mechanisms to ensure adequate use of developed mobile applications.
• Implement modular architecture for existing mobile solutions to enable future expansion to other disease areas.
• Design and develop accessibility features in existing and future mobile applications.
• Implement in-app push notifications across mobile applications developed.
• Integrate existing mobile application with external APIs like the NAFDAC Greenbook, LOMIS.
• Implement and monitor the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature in developed mobile applications.
• Upgrade and develop robust user manuals for the existing and future mobile applications.
• Integrate existing and future mobile solutions into robust backends for unified data storage.
• Design and implement database storage mechanisms for robust data collection across all mobile solutions.

Deliverables:

• Implemented changes and bug fixes identified in all deployed mobile applications.
• Modularized codebase supporting plug-and-play modules for new disease areas (e.g., TB, MNCH) with architecture documentations.
• Functional accessibility settings (e.g., font scaling, screen reader support, colour contrast), user documentation.
• Integrated and tested predictive models on revised ML algorithms. Model documentation and code.
• UI component and backend logic for historical data collection, risk trends, verifications.
• Configured Cloud Messaging (or equivalent), notification service, and UI integration.
• Enhanced user notifications during sync (e.g., progress, success/failure messages, retry logic).
• Revised data collection, use, and privacy documentation based on approved standards from NDPR.
• Fully functional and tested Case Management component developed and delivered and exportable as a standalone module.
• Successful integration of  the external APIs, enabling seamless, real-time information lookup within developed mobile applications.
• Operational Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and package recognition features that are capable of accurately scanning and identifying images and texts.
• Mobile applications compliant with modern accessibility standards, featuring functionalities such as screen reader support, dynamic text sizing, and high-contrast modes.
• Comprehensive and user-friendly User Manuals documenting all features and workflows of developed mobile systems.
• A secure, scalable, and efficiently designed database schema and implementation for the Case Management Module, ensuring data integrity and optimal performance.
• Implementation of offline-first mobile, using capture-and-sync later as well as USSD.
• Deployment and maintenance of fully integrated mobile solutions across Project supported states.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Health Informatics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in digital health system development.
• Proven experience with:
  • Mobile app development (Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, Flutter or React Native)
  • Modular software architecture
  • Push notification frameworks (e.g., FCM)
  • Accessibility standards (WCAG)
  • Familiarity with IRB processes and data ethics in health systems.
  • Strong documentation and communication skills.
  • Application programming Interface (API) integrations.