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Dustin
Gibson
, PhD, MS

Associate Research Professor
Dustin Gibson

Departmental Affiliations

Primary
Division
Health Systems

Center & Institute Affiliations

Dustin Gibson, PhD ’14, MS, develops and evaluates digital tools and technologies to address health system gaps in low- and middle-income countries

Contact Info

615 N. Wolfe Street, Room E8650
Baltimore
Maryland
21205
US        

Research Interests

digital health; mobile phone surveys, mHealth; surveillance; non communicable diseases; behavior change; demand generation; vaccines; capacity building; infectious diseases

Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2014
MS
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
2006
Overview

Broadly, my research interests center around the application and evaluation of digital health technologies to strengthen health systems and generate demand for health services in lower income countries, with a particular focus on immunization delivery and non communicable disease surveillance. Since 2015, a major focus has been advancing mobile phone survey methods for public health data collection in low- and middle-income countries

Honors & Awards

Finalist, Student Supervisor of the Year, Johns Hopkins University (2025)

Kenyan National mHealth and eHealth Research Working Group (2012-present)
mHealth Summitt Scholarship Award, Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative (2012 and 2013)
Finalist for iMedical Apps and Medicine 2.0 mHealth Research Award (2012)
Global Health Field Research Award, Johns Hopkins University (2012)
Lipitz Public Health Policy Award, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2012)
Clements-Mann Fellowship, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, (2011)

Select Publications

I have published with co-authors from the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (Bangladesh); Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia); Ifakara Health Instiute (Tanzania); Makerere School of Public Health (Uganda); Kenya Medical Research Institute; and the World Health Organization. Selected publications are listed below

  • Fernandez Nino J, Ahmed S, Al Kibria GM, Phadnis R, Davlin S, Lee J, Cowan M, Costa Beltran R, Zevallos Lopez, JC, Vasconez J, Masiye JK, El Berri H, Mounach S, Gomare M, Shah D, Khan G, Dave N, Wickaramasinghe C, Perera U, Lishimpi K, Mutale W, Siyumbwa N, Lea V, Riley L, Gibson DG. A multi-country comparison between mobile phone surveys and face-to-face household surveys to estimate prevalence of noncommunicable diseases behavioral risk factors in low and middle-income settings. BMJ Global Health. 2025 June; 10(6): e017785. PMID: 40562539

  • Gibson DG, Tamrat T, Mehl G. The State of Digital Interventions for Demand Generation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Considerations, Emerging Approaches, and Research Gaps. Global Health: Science and Practice. 2018, 6 (Supplement 1): S49-S60. PMID: 30305339

  • Gibson DG, Wosu AC, Pariyo GW, Ahmed S, Ali J, Labrique AB, et al. Effect of airtime incentives on response and cooperation rates in non- communicable disease interactive voice response surveys : randomised controlled trials in Bangladesh and Uganda. BMJ Global Health 2019;4:e001604. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001604.

  • Gibson DG, Pereira A, Farrenkopf BA, Labrique AB, Pariyo GW, Hyder AA. Mobile Phone Surveys for Collecting Population-Level Estimates in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Literature Review. J Med Internet Res 2017;19:e139. PMID: 28476725

  • Tweheyo R, Gibson DG, Kuo H, Ali J, Kaufman M, Ortiz AV, Rutebemberwa E. Exploring and validating reasons for non-response and dropping off an interactive voice response survey for NCD surveillance in Uganda: mixed methods study. Oxford Open Digital Health. 2025 Aug;3: oqaf017. PMID 40917701

Projects
Text4Father
Estimating Effective Vaccination Coverage with Immune Markers
mSIMU: The Mobile Solutions for Immunization Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
The Mobile and Scalable Innovations for Measles Immunization (M-SIMI) randomized controlled trial
Using incentive based approaches to increase uptake of new vaccines & improve
Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Surveys during COVID-19
Bloomberg Data for Health - Non-Communicable Diseases (D4H-NCD) Surveillance Project