Bruce MacLeod
Professor Emeritus
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1989
- M.S. Computer Science, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1985
- M.S. Operations Research and Statistics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., 1981
Dr. MacLeod is a professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Computer Science. He has more than two decades of experience designing and developing software technologies to support health research in the developing world. His work focuses on making complex software systems accessible and usable for health researchers who are not computer scientists. He has served as a software architect for MoTeCH, a mobile phone–based information system used by rural health nurses in Ghana, which also supports text messaging and voice calls to notify pregnant women about health practices and clinical appointments.
Dr. MacLeod also designed and developed OpenHDS and the Household Registration System (HRS), software platforms that enable data entry, reporting, and analysis of longitudinal, community-based health data at research centers in developing countries. These systems are the software standard for the INDEPTH network of health research centers (www.indepth-network.org). His current work explores the use of mobile devices for data collection and information dissemination in global health contexts.
Personal website: https://www.cs.usm.maine.edu/~macleod/
Selected Publications
Bawah, Ayaga A., James F. Phillips, Martin Adjuik, Maya N. Vaughan-Smith, Bruce B. MacLeod, and Fred N. Binka. 2009. “Immunizations, poverty and child survival in Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana.” Scandinavian Journal of Public Health February 2010 vol. 38 no. 1 95-103.
Klungsoyr, Jorn, Thorkild Tylleskar, Bruce MacLeod, Paul Bagyenda, Weiqin Chen, Peter Wakholi. 2008. "OMEVAC - Open Mobile Electronic Vaccine Trials, an interdisciplinary project to improve quality of vaccine trials in low-resource settings.", Proceedings of 1st International Conference on M4D Mobile Communication Technology for Development, Karlstad University. Sweden.
Klungsoyr, Jorn, Peter Wakholi, Bruce MacLeod, Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Neal Lesh. 2008. "OpenROSA, JavaROSA, GloballyMobile - Collaborations around Open Standards for Mobile Applications.", Proceedings of 1st International Conference on M4D Mobile Communication Technology for Development. Karlstad University. Sweden.
Binka, Fred N., Ayaga A. Bawah, James F. Phillips, Abraham Hodgson, Martin Adjuik, Bruce MacLeod. 2007. “Rapid achievement of the child survival Millennium Development4Goal: Evidence from the Navrongo Experiment in northern Ghana.” Tropical Disease and International Health Volume 12, Issue 5 Page 578-593, May 2007.
Phillips JF, MacLeod BB, Kachur SP. Bugs in the Bed: Addressing the Contradictions of Embedded Science with Agile Implementation Research. Glob Health Sci Pract., 2021 Mar 31;9(1):55-77
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1989
- M.S. Computer Science, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1985
- M.S. Operations Research and Statistics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., 1981