Dr. Richard Gakuba is an international digital health/e-health consultant who has been awarded the Holly Ladd mHealth Pioneer Award for leadership in the use of mobile technologies to improve health outcomes by the mHealth Alliance in collaboration with FHI360 and the Rockefeller Foundation. He served as the national e-health coordinator for Rwanda’s Ministry of Health from 2005 to 2013, has a medical degree from the National University of Rwanda, and a master's degree in e-health from Brunel University in the United Kingdom.