Alain Labrique is the director of the Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative. An infectious disease epidemiologist with a background in molecular biology, Labrique is a faculty member at the global disease epidemiology and control program of the Department of International Health, with a joint appointment at the Department of Epidemiology. He also served as the resident project scientist and country representative of the Johns Hopkins University for the JiVitA project, which focuses on maternal and child health research in Bangladesh.