DHIS2 architecture & national rollouts
Tracker and aggregate configuration, facility registries, dashboards, native apps and server administration.
DHIS2 · Tracker · Maps/GIS · DataStore · Linux
Digital health consulting · Conakry, Guinea
Health information systems that truly support decisions.
Founded by Mamadou Diao Diallo, Sowkad helps ministries of health, donors and NGOs design, connect and roll out their national systems: DHIS2, OpenFn, FHIR, One Health surveillance and AI for public health.
- years of field experience
- 10+
- countries supported
- 13
- health professionals trained
- 300+
- facilities on DHIS2 in Guinea
- 500+
The founder has worked with
- PReSeS-AOC project · World Bank funding
- FHI 360
- Save the Children
- JSI
- Madiro
- GIZ
- ICF
- ANSS Guinea
Expertise
From requirements to national rollout.
We cover the full cycle: requirements gathering, functional specifications, development, acceptance testing, training and handover to national teams.
Health system interoperability
Automated exchanges between patient records, laboratories, logistics and surveillance, with automated tests and continuous integration.
OpenFn · HL7 FHIR · OpenHIE · HAPI FHIR · REST
One Health surveillance & early warning
Event-based and community-based surveillance (EBS/CEBS), signal triage and risk-based escalation, aligned with Africa CDC and WHO guidance.
EBS · CEBS · DHIS2 Tracker · One Health
AI for public health
Epidemic alert prediction models that combine climate and demographic data, with explanations district health officers can use.
Python · LightGBM · SHAP · Power BI
Application assessment & validation
Functional audits, gap analysis, requirement prioritisation, user acceptance testing and roadmaps.
Assessment · Requirements · UAT
Training & web platforms
User training, SOPs and guides, knowledge portals and maintenance of institutional websites.
Training · SOPs · Drupal · Pantheon
In the field
Working alongside the teams who use the data.
Track record
Recent assignments
- Ongoing FHI 360 — STRIDES project Morocco · Ministry of Health and Social Protection
Assessment, validation and scale-up of a national epidemiological surveillance application; digitisation of the risk assessment tool and capacity building.
- Since 2025 PReSeS-AOC project Guinea · World Bank funding
National rollout of event-based (EBS) and community-based (CEBS) surveillance: design of the One Health EBS Tracker in DHIS2, covering human, animal and environmental health and security events.
- Ongoing Child Health Task Force Global network · Secretariat hosted by Save the Children
Maintenance and technical support for childhealthtaskforce.org (Drupal, Pantheon), and training the team to publish content.
- 2026 Madiro Madagascar · Burundi
OpenFn workflows between DHIS2, CommCare and KoboCollect for immunisation and MPOX; interoperability between HIV patient records, the laboratory system and DHIS2 through to formal sign-off.
- 2026 ANSS Guinea Guinea · Applied research
Epidemic alert prediction system (AUC 0.902) covering 19 priority diseases and 38 districts, with a dashboard and a native DHIS2 app.
- 2016 — 2025 JSI Research & Training Institute Guinea · Multi-country
National DHIS2 rollout in Guinea; malaria RDQA tool adopted in 5 countries and ranked among the top 3 apps at the 2022 DHIS2 Annual Conference.
Countries of operation
- Guinea
- Senegal
- Morocco
- Burundi
- Madagascar
- Niger
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Burkina Faso
- Sierra Leone
- Mali
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Mozambique
The founder
Mamadou Diao Diallo
A digital health and interoperability engineer, he led Guinea's first national DHIS2 rollout and has supported ministry of health programmes across West, Central and East Africa for more than ten years. He holds a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence for Public Health (Aix-Marseille University).
- DHIS2 Server Administration, University of Oslo
- FHIR Fundamentals & Intermediate, HL7
- Master's in AI for Public Health, AMU
Team
A team that grows with its assignments.
Mamadou Diao Diallo
Founder · Technical Director
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