SOWKAD
Mamadou Diao Diallo, full-length portrait

Founder

Mamadou Diao Diallo

Digital health & interoperability engineer · Founder of Sowkad

For more than ten years he has designed and deployed health information systems for ministries of health across Africa. He led Guinea's first national DHIS2 rollout, has connected patient records, laboratories and surveillance platforms in several countries, and now applies machine learning to epidemic early warning.

He founded Sowkad to put this experience to work for health system digitisation programmes, from Guinea.

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Experience

From Conakry to a dozen countries.

  1. 2026
    Consultant — FHI 360, STRIDES project Morocco · digital epidemiological surveillance
  2. 2026
    Senior Interoperability Engineer — Madiro Burundi, Madagascar · OpenFn, DHIS2
  3. 2026
    Associate Researcher in AI for Public Health — ANSS Guinea · epidemic alert prediction
  4. 2025 — present
    One Health Surveillance Consultant — PReSeS-AOC project Guinea · World Bank funding · EBS/CEBS in DHIS2
  5. 2021 — 2025
    Digital Health Systems Specialist — JSI Remote · malaria, TB, family planning
  6. 2018 — 2021
    Global Health Consultant Guinea, Burundi, Niger · JSI, GIZ, ICF, CRS, Digital Square
  7. 2016 — 2018
    Health Information Systems Engineer — JSI Guinea · national DHIS2 rollout
  8. 2014 — 2016
    IT & Systems Specialist — Advalis Conakry · ODK data collection, GIS, infrastructure

Education

  • Master's in Artificial Intelligence for Public Health Aix-Marseille University · 2025–2026
  • Master 1 in Health Information Systems Engineering Aix-Marseille University · 2017–2018
  • Computer Engineering and Networks Université Nongo Conakry · 2011–2015

Certifications

  • DHIS2 Server Administration — University of Oslo
  • FHIR Fundamentals — HL7 International
  • FHIR Intermediate — HL7 International
  • Machine Learning on AWS — Amazon Web Services
  • Java Programming and Software Engineering — Duke University
  • Test Driven Development — IBM

Languages

French (native) · English (fluent)

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