John Farrow is a public health and health information systems specialist with expertise in system design and project management. John has a BSc in Health Information Science from the University of Victoria and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has worked to support the implementation of information systems at the national and provincial levels in Canada, and most recently has been working internationally on public health surveillance projects with the eSHIFT Partner Network. He is the founding director of InformHealth, a health systems consultancy working to strengthen information systems and provide epidemiologic and health economics analytic support.