Mentors
Berhane, Aynie, Mr
https://rocketreach.co/aynie-berhane-email_330130399
Aynie Berhane, (M.Sc., M.ph.) is a senior monitoring and evaluation and public health expert with more than twenty years of experience in the higher education industry in Ethiopia. He is currently serving as an academic and research vice president at KEA-MED University College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Aynie is a senior healthcare researcher with special focus on the health and wellbeing of elderlies. He has a profound experience in doing and advising quantitative research areas. He is also highly engaged in strategic planning, project planning & implementation, resource mobilization, capacity building and monitoring and evaluation areas.
Aynie is an interRAI fellow since 2023 and Ethiopia country coordinator of the Pan African Utilization of Lay Assessment Systems (PAULAS) research project on aging. Aynie has a Master’s of science degree in Monitoring and Evaluation from Addis Ababa University and Master of public health in general public health from the same University, and a Bachelor of Education from Bahirdar University (Ethiopia).
Costa, Andrew, Associate Professor
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/people/acosta
Dr. Andrew Costa is an Associate Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Integrated Care for Seniors at McMaster University. He is the Research Director of the St. Joseph’s Health System Centre for Integrated Care, and the co-founder and Executive Director of OnSPARK (https://onspark.ca/), Canada’s largest long-term care data research platform supporting real-world experimental trials and AI-driven analytics. He is an interRAI Fellow where he serves as the VP Operations and member of the Board.
Gray, Len, Professor
https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/1121
Len Gray is a Professor in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland. He has extensive experience in health services management, clinical care and academic research.
Within interRAI, he leads development of hospital systems, is a Board member, and Director of Contracts.
His current research interests include clinical informatics, service design and quality systems.
Hirdes, John, Professor
https://uwaterloo.ca/public-health-sciences/profiles/john-hirdes
Dr. John Hirdes is the President of interRAI (www.interRAI.org) and University Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo. He is a Member of the Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Dr. Hirdes has 360+ publications in peer reviewed journals and academic book chapters. His primary areas of interest include assessment systems, mental health, aging, health services research, quality measurement, and quantitative research methods.
Kenny, Danelle, Dr
https://chsr.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/3369/danelle-kenny
Danelle holds a doctorate in applied behavioural economics and is currently employed as a regulatory strategy research and policy officer for the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission in Australia. She is also a major contributor to the cost benefit framework for interRAI implementation, underpinned by an interest in systems evaluation and health program design.
Luo, Hao, Dr
https://uwaterloo.ca/public-health-sciences/profiles/hao-luo
Hao Luo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo and a Docent in Statistics at Uppsala University. She is an interRAI fellow who leverages large-scale healthcare data to address critical clinical and policy questions related to aging and mental health. Her research aims to enhance our understanding of the complexity of aging and health through advanced analytics and data linkage across the continuum of care.
Mofina, Amanda, Dr
https://rehabscience.usask.ca/about/people/faculty-profiles/amanda-mofina.php
Dr. Mofina is an Assistant Professor in Rehabilitation Science and an Occupational Therapist. Her research leverages big data to improve rehabilitation, care quality, and health outcomes for individuals with complex chronic conditions across diverse health care settings.
Mor, Vincent, Professor
https://vivo.brown.edu/display/vmor
Dr. Vincent Mor is Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice and the Florence Pirce Grant University Professor in the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Mor was on the faculty of the Department of Community Health since 1981 until it became the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice. He was tenured in 1987 and promoted to Professor in 1990. Dr. Mor was one of the founders of the Department's graduate program in 1986 and directed the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research for 10 years. He served as Chair of the Department of Community Health from 1996 until 2010 when 4 new Departments were created which became the Brown University School of Public Health later that decade. For his contributions to the University over more than 40 years, the University faculty awarded him the Susan Colver Rosenberg Medal of Honor in 2021. Dr. Mor has been Principal Investigator of over 50 NIH funded grants focusing on the use of health services and the outcomes frail and chronically ill persons experience. He was recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy investigator award and a MERIT award from the National Institute on Aging.
Wabe, Nasir, Associate Professor
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/nasir-wabe/
Associate Professor Nasir Wabe leads the Aged Care Evaluation and Research stream at Macquarie University, Australia. His expertise spans pharmacy, epidemiology, health informatics, and AI/ML. He has secured over $15M in funding, including major national AI-in-aged-care initiatives, and published more than 90 papers in leading journals.
Wellens, Nathalie, Professor
https://www.ecolelasource.ch/annuaire/wellens-nathalie/
Prof. Dr. Nathalie I.H. Wellens is a Public Health scientist with expertise in interRAI implementation since 2005. She has supported and led nationwide rollouts in Belgium and Switzerland, strengthening standardized assessment, data quality, and actionable quality improvement. Her work bridges research, policy, and training for data-driven system-level impact.