Russell Gann is presently serving as the CIO, Surveillance Coordinator, Informatics Lead, Preventive Medicine, Project/Program Manager and Supervisor/IMIT for the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs Division in Riyadh. He has had broad education, training, and over 30 years of experience in the United States and abroad in developing, managing, implementing, evaluating and improving informatics development assistance projects, and advising US Government, UN agencies, WHO agencies, NGOs and national public and private Health sector counterparts on various aspects of surveillance science and health services research, and on assessing and improving the policies and practice of public health, monitoring & evaluation, and logistics management. Russell Gann worked as Program.