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Peter Drury is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in strategy, program management, and management consulting, with a strong background in health systems and ICT. He has worked with various organizations, including the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, and the GSMA, and has developed policies and strategies to support the use of ICT in delivering improved health systems, particularly in Africa and SE Asia.

Experience

    • Director
      • Oct 2012 - Present

      Specialist in the development of policies and strategy to support the use of ICT in delivering improved health systems, particularly in Africa and SE Asia. Currently supporting digital health programmes in Viet Nam and Romania. Recently supported the GSMA on "Digital Health: A health system ...

    • Director, Health and Development, IBSG, Emerging Markets
      • Sep 2008 - Oct 2012

      Led the Cisco IBSG engagement with the e-Skills Institute of the Department of Communications, South Africa- shared international best practice by arranging their eSkills visits to Mexico, Kenya and Rwanda- developed a forward look for the programme to deliver 10m eSkilled South Africans by blending a range of delivery channels. Provided strategic advice to the Kenya ICT Board, and led the IBSG engagement with their Digital Village Programme.

    • Director, Health, Cisco IBSG Emerging Markets
      • Sep 2006 - Sep 2008

      - Provided consultancy support on skills training centres for health and community development in Pakistan- Best practice sharing with the Ministry of Health and the City of Monterrey in Mexico; King Abdullah Hospital, Saudi Arabia; Ministry of Health, Venezuela; Russian Railways.

  • PD Consulting
    • York, United Kingdom
    • Consultant
      • 2004 - 2006
      • York, United Kingdom

      - Developed the “eHealth Connections in Kenya” programme, working with the Ministry of Health, AfriAfya, Amref. - Assisted the Ministry of Health with ICT aspects of the Second National Health Sector Strategic Plan of Kenya.

  • UK Department of Health
    • Leeds, United Kingdom
    • Head of the Information Policy Unit (IPU)
      • 1999 - 2004
      • Leeds, United Kingdom

      - Initiated and developed the IPU (46 staff), commissioning work from the NHS Information Authority (750 staff, £126m budget). - Supported development of the National Programme for IT and helped secure its initial budget of £2.3bn over 3 years. - Oversaw IPU’s delivery of a wide range of policy ...

    • Consultant to the NHS Information Management Group
      • 1992 - 1998
      • London, United Kingdom

      - Programme managed the development of the “Information for Health” strategy for the NHS in 1997/8, and the “Getting Better with Information” strategy in 1992. - Established the Clinical Systems Group with the Chief Medical Officer.

    • Consultant to the UK Dept of Health Information and Indicators Branch
      • 1989 - 1991
      • London, United Kingdom

      - Co-ordinated the working groups considering the health IM&T implications of the NHS “Working for Patients” Reforms- Produced a comprehensive report for national consultation: “Framework for Information Systems: The Next Steps”.

    • Lecturer in Health Information/District Information Manager, Ealing Health Au...
      • 1983 - 1989
      • London, United Kingdom

      - Lectured at LSHTM on health information for the Masters course in Public Health- Introduced the information systems to support the National Management Budgeting Pilot (Ealing was one of 4). - Developed a District Information Systems Strategy, a pilot information centre for NW Thames Region, and...

    • Health Service Planner
      • 1979 - 1983
      • London, United Kingdom

      - Led on health planning for acute and community services, working with the London Borough of Lambeth. - Helped the development of an innovative “distributed” approach to IT within the hospital.

  • The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust
    • Ipswich, United Kingdom
    • National Administrative Trainee
      • 1975 - 1979
      • Ipswich, United Kingdom

      - Grass-roots experience of all major hospital, community and health authority departments.

    • Demonstrator, Dept of Geography
      • 1971 - 1975
      • Ghana

      - Locational analysis and health- The geography of health

Education

  • 1985 - 1990
    University of Surrey
  • 1979 - 1981
    University of Surrey
  • 1968 - 1971
    University of Cambridge

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