Scroll down to cast your vote in both categories and help choose this year’s winners!
Voting closes on 15 June!
We have selected finalists in two categories: Impact and Contribution. Scroll down to see each of the finalists below—some (not all) also have videos detailing their merit, which were optional in the nomination process.
Impact Award
Recognizes work with DHIS2 that has achieved significant results from any domain — including health, education, logistics, climate, agriculture, and beyond — showing clear evidence of positive change, whether through improved service delivery, expanded program reach, enhanced data quality, better decision-making, or tangible benefits for communities and populations served.
Finalists:
1. Médecins Sans Frontières, EyeSeeTea—Vaccination App
Since October 2020, the MSF Vaccination App has supported 55 vaccination campaigns across nine countries in humanitarian settings — Burkina Faso, CAR, Chad, DRC, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan — resulting in over 3 million doses administered across 20 antigens, including approximately 420,000 for infants under one year and 2.8 million for children under 14. The app automates complex DHIS2 metadata orchestration, allowing field teams to configure and launch campaigns without deep technical expertise. In contexts where speed is critical and specialist capacity is scarce, this tool has removed a key barrier between communities and life-saving care.
2. Sri Lanka Epidemiology Unit—EPINET for disease surveillance
EPINET integrates three complementary data streams — rapid hospital-based aggregate reporting, routine field investigation data, and ICD-coded hospital morbidity data via a custom interoperability platform — to give epidemiologists a multi-source picture of disease dynamics in near real time. The value of this triangulation is concrete: in leptospirosis surveillance, aggregate hospital reports identified 2,781 suspected cases, routine notifications recorded 1,989, field investigations confirmed 1,475, and the integrated hospital morbidity dataset captured 1,774 clinically diagnosed cases — differences that reveal underreporting, validate trends, and guide targeted interventions. During the 2025 national flood emergency, the system was rapidly deployed nationwide for real-time disease monitoring. EPINET also integrates immunization data for polio, measles, rubella, HPV, and other vaccine-preventable diseases, linking vaccination performance to disease occurrence to identify immunity gaps.
3. Rwanda Ministry of Health—Marburg Response
When Rwanda declared its first-ever Marburg Virus Disease outbreak on 27 September 2024 — a pathogen with a case fatality rate of up to 88% — the Ministry of Health customized an existing DHIS2 case management framework into a fully operational MVD surveillance system within days. Within three days of the declaration, 26 cases had been identified across 7 districts with hundreds of contacts requiring follow-up. Using DHIS2 Tracker, the system managed individual-level data across sample collection, lab processing, case management, contact tracing, and vaccination, integrating bed management, ambulance dispatch, call centers, and supply chain into a single data ecosystem. In just over three weeks, more than 4,700 people were tested, over 1,000 vaccine doses administered, and 43 of 62 confirmed cases recovered — including the first recorded recoveries from severe Marburg in history. Read more on dhis2.org
4. The Gambia Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education EMIS Unit, HISP West and Central Africa—EMIS Implementation
Since 2019, The Gambia’s Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has transformed from paper-based annual census forms into one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most advanced education data systems on DHIS2. By 2020, over 300,000 student records with unique IDs had been entered across a pilot of 200 schools, scaling nationally in 2021. The platform now supports teacher deployment, school feeding programmes, infrastructure planning, and an early warning system for dropout — with tools built entirely by MoBSE’s own team, including a school report card for low-literacy contexts, an SMS-based teacher attendance system, and a dedicated application for children with disabilities. The 2022 DHIS2 for Education Academy co-hosted in Banjul drew 113 participants from 18 countries, and a 2025 independent evaluation ranked the implementation between 80–88% across system readiness, human capacity, and learner-centred transformation. The model is now informing implementations in Togo, Eswatini, and Sierra Leone. Read more on education.dhis2.org
5. Democratic Republic of the Congo Ministry of Health, Africa CDC—Mpox Response
Following the August 2024 declaration of mpox as a continental public health emergency, the DRC Ministry of Health and Africa CDC deployed DHIS2 as the backbone of a national surveillance and vaccination response in the world’s most severely affected country, accounting for approximately 88% of continental cases. Partners configured a unified system linking case-based surveillance, lab testing, contact tracing, case management, and vaccination data through a unique patient identifier, with real-time dashboards enabling authorities to monitor transmission chains down to individual unvisited contacts. Offline functionality ensured coverage in remote areas. The unified database model developed during the response is now being scaled into shared continental surveillance infrastructure across Africa.
Contribution Award
Recognizes an individual or group that has made exceptional contributions to supporting, strengthening, and growing the DHIS2 platform and/or community. This can include contributing DHIS2 code, documentation, or training materials; sharing knowledge and resources; answering technical questions; providing support and building capacity; or other significant contributions of time and effort to DHIS2 as a global good.
Finalists:
1. PATH & BAO Systems
Native Supervision Feedback — DHIS2 Core v43 / Android 3.4
PATH and BAO Systems, in collaboration with the University of Oslo, designed and contributed a set of generic features now shipping natively in DHIS2 Core v43 and Android App v3.4. These include full Markdown rendering support in the Capture App and Android feedback module, priority ordering for Program Rule Actions, and Key/Value Pair actions with Legend Set integration for color-coded visual cues. The contribution spans the full DHIS2 stack — backend, rule engine, Android SDK, Capture App, Metadata Management App, and Mobile UI library. The work was driven by a real operational need: PATH’s malaria supervision programmes, covering over 200,000 assessments across approximately 17,000 health facilities in multiple countries, had long relied on a custom Android fork to deliver rich feedback. This nomination also highlights the contribution process itself — from generalized proposal through design alignment with UiO to multi-repository implementation — as a model for how community-driven development can work at its best.
2. Monica Amuha Grace
HISP Uganda
Monica Amuha Grace is an education specialist who has played a central role in implementing and adapting DHIS2 for the education sector in Uganda. Working closely with government counterparts and partners, she has ensured that the system moves beyond functionality to genuine use — supporting schools and districts in applying data for planning and decision-making. She has also contributed to research on DHIS2 use in education, examining how user capacity, participation, and system design shape data utilisation in practice. Bridging the gap between technical systems and the people who depend on them, Monica has become a foundational knowledge resource for the DHIS2 for Education team in Uganda, whose leads credit her as the person from whom they have learned the most about both the domain and the platform.
3. Mayamiko Mendamenda
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Mayamiko Mendamenda has focused his contributions to the DHIS2 community on a gap that affects many newcomers: the difficulty of translating technical documentation into real-world practice. To address this, he has developed a growing library of accessible, beginner-focused learning resources across both written and video formats. His Medium tutorial series — covering topics such as getting started with DHIS2, importing organisation units, and integrating DHIS2 data with Power BI — has accumulated over 2,000 views and 900 reads, with his Power BI integration guide alone exceeding 500 reads. Since launching his YouTube channel in February 2026, he has produced multiple DHIS2 video tutorials reaching over 300 views, with individual videos reaching up to 170 views. Beyond content creation, Mayamiko has presented twice at DHIS2 Community of Practice end-of-year events and has been featured in the DHIS2 Online Academy “Learner Voices” series, reflecting consistent engagement with the broader community.
4. Gift Nnhko
HISP Tanzania
Gift Nnhko is a senior full-stack developer and DHIS2 specialist at HISP Tanzania who has made sustained contributions to both the technical and community dimensions of the DHIS2 ecosystem. A winner of the 2022 DHIS2 Annual Conference Web App Competition, he specialises in building custom web, mobile, and IoT extensions using the DHIS2 App Platform, Android SDK, React, and Next.js. On the DHIS2 Community Forum, he is a recognised technical resource — regularly answering API questions, troubleshooting app builds, and supporting developers navigating system configurations. Beyond his individual contributions, Gift has taken on a leadership role through the Developer Champions programme, actively guiding and encouraging developers at HISP Tanzania and across the wider community to engage with and contribute to DHIS2 projects.
5. Jules Maurice Mulisa
HISP Rwanda
Jules Maurice Mulisa is Software Engineering Lead at HISP Rwanda, where since 2020 he has led the design and delivery of DHIS2-based systems supporting immunization, COVID-19 response, performance-based financing, vaccine logistics, and other national health programmes. He has been a key driver of innovation at HISP Rwanda, most notably in the development of the DHIS2 Microplan App, where his vision for integrating geospatial mapping — including the use of WorldPop population data — has transformed how health teams identify coverage gaps and plan targeted interventions. Beyond technical delivery, Maurice is recognised as a mentor and team builder who fosters engineering best practices, supports junior developers, and works consistently to strengthen local software development capacity within the DHIS2 ecosystem in Rwanda.
6. Andualem Bekele & Adan Nur,
WHO Ethiopia and Somalia
Andualem Bekele and Adan Nur championed the development of a cross-border DHIS2 nutrition tracker serving pastoralist communities on the Ethiopia-Somalia border — among the most underserved and hardest-to-reach populations in the region. Pastoralist communities in areas such as Dollo Ado face some of the highest rates of child wasting and micronutrient deficiency in Ethiopia, compounded by seasonal mobility, weak infrastructure, and fragmented health systems that straddle an open international border. Andualem and Adan worked across both governments and with HISP Ethiopia and Tanzania to advocate for and co-develop a DHIS2 Tracker-based nutrition solution designed to follow children and pregnant mothers across borders, enabling continuity of care regardless of where families move. The project, supported by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, aims to reach over 14,800 pregnant and lactating mothers and 30,000 children aged 0–5 in targeted sites across Ethiopia and Somalia.
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The winners will be announced live at the DHIS2 Annual Conference in Oslo!
Impact Award Finalists
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- Médecins Sans Frontières / EyeSeeTea — Vaccination App
- Sri Lanka Epidemiology Unit — EPINET
- Rwanda Ministry of Health—Marburg Response
- The Gambia Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education EMIS Unit, HISP West and Central Africa—EMIS Implementation
- Democratic Republic of the Congo Ministry of Health, Africa CDC—Mpox Response
Contribution Award Finalists
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- PATH & BAO Systems
- Monica Amuha Grace, HISP Uganda
- Mayamiko Mendamenda, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
- Gift Nnhko, HISP Tanzania
- Jules Maurice Mulisa, HISP Rwanda
- Andualem Bekele & Adan Nur, WHO Ethiopia and Somalia
