I will be teaching Health + Innovation

Head of Product, MindLogger.org - A b2b2c data collection platform for children's mental health.

I was hired at the beginning of the pandemic to develop and manage digital health products across Amgen’s cardiovascular and metabolic asset pipeline. Given this unique role, I was able to work with teams in early development, development, commercial, medical affairs, patient support programs and more. The role has now changed to be more focused on cross-therapeutic solutions but the mission is the same: build 0 to 1 products that help patients, providers and our business win. Over the last 2+ years:- I helped manage a decentralized clinical trials using wearables to understand the impact of wearables on heart failure patients. - Launched an app called MyHeartPath in Canada and then in 3 other countries (i.e. Switzerland, Spain and Mexico)- Launched a mobile video game for cardiologists - Designed a digital health strategy for a heart failure asset (now discontinued) - Designed a strategy and roadmap for a digital therapeutic for heart failure - Launched an Alexa skill for Repatha Today, I lead our digital care pathway product area and working across medical, legal, regulatory and compliance. We are currently undergoing user research and determining problem-solution fit to be able to design/build an MVP to test our hypothesis that automating care pathways in fact does reduce friction for patients and providers. On top of my product management role, I’ve advised various teams across Amgen on how to standardize, automate and digitize certain processes (i.e. data ingestion and patient recruitment) that would help scale our clinical trial efforts. I’ve even lead our division’s overall vision and strategy so that each functional unit aligns towards a north-star metric that serves Amgen’s broader mission of serving patients. No matter the challenge, I like to simplify the problem and help work with cross functional teams to build impactful products for users.

Setting the mission and strategy of the organization, hiring amazing talent, making sure employees and the public understand our mission, product definition and development and making sure we're profitable and growing!

Overlap is a remote patient monitoring platform born out of the open data standard, Open mHealth. I co-founded the company with the architect from Open mHealth and hired and managed a team of software engineers and designers to build an end-to-end remote patient monitoring system. I not only lead sales, operations and business development but also product management. We built a clinician facing frontend that was embeddable in an EHR and a patient facing mobile application. We've had over 20,000 patients and hundreds of providers use our platform to manage mental health, diabetes, hypertension and more. Founding and building Overlap was rewarding. We got to embed our software in places like Kaiser Permanente, the Department of Veteran Affairs, UCSF and more. We built the business to over $2M in revenue over a few year period without venture funding.

I love industrial design as well as building businesses. My dear friend and award winning industrial designer, Faris Elmasu, prototyped a beautiful bicycle basket and was sitting on hundreds of email addresses wanting it. I thought I could help. And that I did. We developed a Kickstarter campaign and actually got $10k committed. Our goal amount was too high and the project didn't execute. That didn't stop me. I built a pre-order campaign on Shopify and did it again and got $10k in pre-orders at $100 per bike basket to be able to build and ship our first batch of products from China. We went on to generate almost $100k in revenue as a pure side project. I learned how to work with design manufacturers overseas, ship a product, store the product, build out an e-commerce store and logistics systems, marketing and even had B2B customers around the world like Linus, Tokyo Bikes and Public.

Organized three major evening film events in Washington, DC, New York City, and San Francisco to help spread innovations in public health.

Brought 10,500 unique visits to Healthunbound.org (Dec - July 2011). 60% of these visits were new visitors.Developed a 3-year online-offline digital strategy which has now grown the user base to over 12,000 unique usersDeveloped a scalable business model with financial analysis that focused on thought leadership, advertising and community engagement. See portfolio for more details, davidhaddadportfolio.tumblr.com

Developed competitive positioning and brand strategy for their Cucina & Amore product line. This was used to influence new package design. I also helped advise them on a new governance structure to allay confusion between the wholesaler (International Delicacies) and their popular product Cucina & Amore. Provided guidance on website design.

Wrote 80-page guide with case studies on how to enhance financial services for Think.Tech.Act—a capacity building project that helps civil society organizations match technology solutions with organizational needs. Developed interview guideline and performed four interviews for a narrative case study based on Gobee’s work with Population Council and reproductive health vouchers. Performed rapid ethnographic interviews with those who participated in Microsoft’s Elevate America voucher program. The purpose was to find success stories as well as glean important information about the challenges for those who used vouchers to improve computer literacy.

Wrote policy briefs for South Asia region’s social protection program on how shared decision-making in Pakistani households effect poverty reduction. Advisor to the Africa Health unit’s eHealth program. The program’s goal was to mainstream technology into the Bank’s health system strengthening efforts, build capacity and be a knowledge center for eHealth. By collaborating with development partners, governments and private sector technology shops, I integrated key stakeholder information to reflect the dynamics of eHealth. Developed eHealth strategy for the Africa eHealth unit in addition supervised two papers Led Resource Requirement Tool (RRT) analysis and implementation in Ghana and Sierra Leone. RRT enables countries to estimate and project the resources required for HRH employment and pre-service training, analyze the plan’s affordability, simulate “what-if” policy scenarios and facilitate the monitoring of the country’s proposed scale-up plan. Working closely with the Ministry of Health, Education and Finance, a report was submitted demonstrating the HRH situation in Ghana with policy recommendations. Lead author and co-author to five chapters in the Ghana MOH/World Bank Country Status Report on Human Resources for Health.

Designed an HRH tool that costs retention improvement interventions in the health labor market. The design format used Wufoo form generator and Omnigraffle. Designed an HRH activity-based costing model to be used to cost prioritized HRH activities for the Lesotho Ministry of Health’s HRH strategy. I designed the costing model using Microsoft Excel 2007 with visual basic macros enabled

Worked to modify and include adaptations to the Resource Requirement Tool (RRT) while in-country in Lima, Peru. The Peru MOH wanted to pilot RRT in the Ayacucho region to better understand the profile and costs attached to health workers in an effort to reach their national health insurance goals.

Researched and designing a case study report from experience using RRT in Ghana. The report was used to help train Francophone African countries to use RRT as a guide to cost national HRH plans and strategies.

Conducted research on pediatric TB by focusing on contact nodes. Created a database for SS+ cases of children from the Americas, with primary metric being prevalence rates. Co-authored an issue brief on pediatric TB which was distributed to each of the ministries of health in the Americas.