Neal Lesh received a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington in 1998. As a Senior Scientist at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) in Cambridge, MA, he worked in a variety areas related to human-computer interaction. In 2004, Neal got a Master in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Since then, he has been working and living mostly abroad. He worked on large-scale AIDS treatment programs, rural hospitals, and research projects. He has been active in the OpenMRS and OpenROSA open source communities, as well as collaboration among groups working on mobile health applications in Tanzania. His primary focus now is on the CommCare project to equip community health workers with phone-based applications to help them plan their day, manage household visits, and report their data.