Tracy Eastman

BMJ Publishing Group, Practical Approach to Care Kit

Tracy Eastman is currently Electronic Health Record Lead, Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness, Cape Town, South Africa. She is a medical doctor and health manager, trained at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.  She has worked in general and rural clinical practice and as a health manager in South Africa, as Health-IT systems implementer in SA and the UK, as Director of the BMJ Evidence Centre,  led the BMJ /UCT Knowledge Translation Unit global health partnership implementing “PACK” (Practical Approach to Care Kit), and has worked in or alongside the implementation of Health Information systems over the last 25 years. Professional interests: Primary care, Public health, Global health, Health service management, Health IT, Health Knowledge management to enable and strengthen health services for the poorest communities in LMICs.

Working group membership(s):
HIFA in Official Relations with WHO