About us

Our story

Founded in 2017, TecSalud is a women-owned small business with a strong focus on designing practical and sustainable digital equity and social impact growth strategies for partners of all shapes and sizes. Our work extends to various sectors, which include health, social impact, government, and community advocacy across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Our core belief is that technology for social good should not be complicated, costly or overwhelming. Our efforts are towards creating a holistic approach to bridge the digital divide in marginalized communities and leverage digital tools to gather and share evidence of positive contribution.

We also offer multi-channel BizDev and strategic planning advisory services to organizations seeking global expertise in how to be thoughtful and intentional about growing. Our team of consultants have decades of experience in foundation, federal, state, and international development channels.

We look forward to implementing innovative solutions alongside our partners in order to create a better, more just world for everyone.

Our Vision

We exist to bridge divides and unlock opportunities by not only creating innovative digital strategies, but working with our partners to recognize that ‘going digital’ isn’t always the solution. We have a steadfast commitment to social impact, and recognize the risks of creating disparity when introducting technology. We strive to mitigate this risk through defining users as everyone who may touch what we create, and involving them in our processes. Engaging focus groups, rigorous user testing, trial and error, continuous feedback loops and local expert involvement are some of our methods.

Our Mission

At Tecsalud, we are on a mission to create digital strategies for equitable access to information and leverage the power of human centered design to ensure everyone has the capacity to fully participate in the digital world. We advise clients on equitable and inclusive digital transformation prectice that are rooted in community, collaboration, and innovation so that together we are building a more just future.

Meet the Team

Christina has been apart of digital health, tech for good, and social impact growth initiatives of all shapes and sizes, both within the US domestic market and across Latin America and the Caribbean. She has developed national and regional-scale technology adoption and improvement strategies for clients like the Inter-American Development Bank, Sesame Workshop, and the Ministries of Health in Belize and Honduras.

She’s built technology services and health program business development strategies for partners such as the Inter-American Development Bank, World Vision, Harvard School of Public Health, Patient Navigators International, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Rainforest Alliance, Fundación SHE Barcelona, Mount Sinai Hospital, International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and CommunityConnect Labs. She is apart of several digital equity and social innovation in health initiatives across the region.

Prior to TecSalud, Christina was the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at Dimagi, Inc. where she led Latin America, Caribbean, and United States new market strategy, and global business development. Before Dimagi, she worked as a digital health consultant with Synthesis Health Systems and and as an International Health consultant for Children’s Hospital Boston. She holds an MPH from Northeastern University, a BS in Psychology from Rollins College and is an Albert Schweitzer Fellow. She lives between Bogotá, Colombia and Easthampton, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.

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Christina Jeffrey, MPH

Principal

Johana is TecSalud’s Director of Projects, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E). One of her core philosophical pillars is harnessing the power of technology for social good. As a result, Johana has helped to design strategies that use technology to assess program effectiveness and scale palpable solutions, provide rich data, and lead progress and a rigorous interpretation of reality.

Johana has leading social projects, using statistical methods to provide analytical solutions in digital tools and monitoring strategies for Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de los Andes and government agencies politically responsible for education.

She has supported the construction of reports based on the processing and the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data; developed scales for the measurement and valuation of projects; monitored the data obtained during the piloting implementation exercises, identifying alerts and proposing adjustment strategies; and generated indicators, success metrics and global learning indexes. Johana holds a Master’s degree in Statistical Methods and Applications from Rome and Bachelor in Psychology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where she specialized in Statistics. She speaks English, Spanish, and Italian.

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Johana Quiroz Montoya

Director of Projects, Monitoring & Evaluation

Angela Franco is our System Design Expert and Systems Engineer who also has deep experience in healthcare data mining and business intelligence.

Prior to joining TecSalud, Angela worked on various data science teams at the World Bank, Processum Consultoría Institucional, and the National University of Colombia.

She has designed, developed, and overseen healthcare data collection strategies for governments, clinical databases, data structures, data dictionaries, data warehouses, and complex algorithms. She is well-versed in using Kimball and KDD methodologies and Pentaho Data Integration, Rapidminer, Postgresql and Oracle.

Angela holds a Master’s of Science in System Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor’s of Science in Systems Engineering, both from the National University of Colombia. She is passionate about how technology and data science can solve complex healthcare challenges. She speaks English and Spanish.

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Angela Franco

Data Analytics and Engineering

Shannon is a Registered Nurse, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, and Ordained Minister, bringing 21+ years of combined experience as a loyal and dedicated human services and medical professional and non-profit leader. Shannon has extensive experience in succession planning, leadership, non-profit development, and transitional housing initiatives.

She assisted in the establishment of Christina’s House, an educational and transitional home for women and their children experiencing homelessness from 2010-2017, and served as its Executive Director from 2017-2022. Shannon’s background also includes building and supervising strong and loyal teams, board development, strategic and succession planning, fundraising, grant writing, brand development and awareness, volunteer recruitment and management, engaging donors in meaningful long-term relationships, and rallying people and communities around a mission dedicated to meeting the needs of those they serve. Additional certifications include Trauma Responsive Community Leader, Associate Practitioner for AgileBrain℠, and Healing Racism’s Institute 2-Day Seminar (Fall 2023).

Shannon Mumblo

Strategic Consultant, Change Management, US Nonprofit Program Design

Hao has a 17-year track record of success at top firms like McKinsey, Red Hat/IBM and Abt associates. Her unique expertise lies in simplifying complex challenges and fostering alignment among experts, independent teams, and customers. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing (UNCG) and a BA in Literature (Wellesley College).

Hao Nguyen

Strategic consultant, public health bizdev & ai for impact

A designer by trade, Jose is committed to understanding people’s needs and to developing creative solutions that generate exciting experiences both on and off screen. He specializes in using his industrial design background to bring physical space into the equation when running technical capacity building workshops. He is currently working in marketing for a national public health nonprofit and lends his expertise to us when he can!

Prior to TecSalud, Jose spent over seven years in a variety of leadership roles for Nike’s Colombia office – including project management, design, marketing, training, client relations, product launch strategies, and overseeing large, interdisciplinary teams of people. He played a lead role in designing and rolling out customized, interactive technology solutions for Nike, to improve retail experiences and expand the online community through Nike’s mobile applications. Jose holds a Bachelors of Arts in Design from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, where he specialized in Communication and Product Design. He speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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Jose David Cure

Strategic Consultant, Marketing, UX Design & Capacity Building

Manuel is a Marketing professional with a demonstrated track record working in the Technology and Education industries. Highly skilled in product and field marketing, B2B, marketing automation, SEO, digital and web marketing. Manuel is an experienced EdTech industry speaker. He has worked as Editor in EdTech publications with global scope. It has allowed him to know closely how education is, and how it changes in every part of the world. He speaks English and Spanish.

Manuel Rivera León

Manager, Marketing & Communications

Shilpa started out as a client and has turned into one of TecSalud’s most important strategic partners. She has years of experience in business development, grant making, and program leadership. She has deep sector expertise in healthcare, migration, reproductive and human rights.

Shilpa has worked in leadership roles at WINGS in Guatemala, pai.org and several other organizations. She is currently working as a strategic consultant for a number of international and US-based organizations to assist with program design, research, and funding.

Shilpa Kothari

Strategic Consultant, Global Grants & Funding

Pamela has more than 20 years of experience in global business development for both healthcare startups as well as nonprofit teaching hospitals. As the Director of International Services at top ranked hospitals Boston Children’s, Tufts and Children’s Mercy, she helped to lead the development of medical travel industry as well as its complimentary programs (telemedicine’s remote second opinions, educational exchanges and advisory services).

In her role as Vice President at Best Doctors, she established the country’s first PPO of top US hospitals with international patient programs. In 2010, her work with the U.S. Department of Commerce was integral to the formal establishment of the United States Cooperative of International Patient Programs (USCIPP), the leading membership association for US hospitals involved in international healthcare.

Ms. Frank serves as a senior advisor to a number of nonprofit organizations in the United States, Latin America, and the Middle East/North Africa She has conducted business in over 30 countries and lived in Spain, Turkey, and Mexico. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese, holds a Master of Business Administration from Thunderbird School of Global Management as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

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Pamela Frank

BUSINESS ADVISOR, GLOBAL MARKETS

Gillian Co-Founded TecSalud and was an integral part of its first years. Gillian currently serves as the Managing Director of SaaS. Gillian has built her career working in project, marketing, and operations roles at various social impact technology organizations, including Dimagi, Vecna Cares, Telerivet, Partners in Health, One Laptop Per Child, and UNDP. Prior to joining Dimagi, She has managed over 30 digital health projects that utilize frontline technology to augment health programs in low-resource settings. Gillian holds a Masters in Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine and a B.A. in International Relations and Community Health from Tufts University.