With more than 20 years of experience driving advancement and innovation, Dr. Jamie Pina is a scientific and executive leader in biomedical and public health informatics. As Vice President of Data Strategy at RTI, he leads a team that positions data as a strategic institutional asset, guiding AI-driven innovation and advancing data governance frameworks that support quality, trust, and reusability in biomedical and public health research. Dr. Pina works to solve mission-driven challenges with cutting-edge public health and biomedical information systems and uses research to propel the use of emerging technologies in public health practice. His recent work energizes and enhances national data architectures for public health and biomedical research, exploring the use of health equity data models, and integrating generative AI into public health practice to improve efficiency.
He began his career in IT as a database administrator, network administrator, and software developer, and later earned a PhD in Biomedical Informatics. His research focused on electronic disease reporting and public health data systems. Since then, he has served as a Principal Investigator on major NIH initiatives and provided national thought leadership on data modernization, generative AI, and data equity.
At the heart of Dr Pina’s work is a commitment to designing data ecosystems that are intelligent, ethical, and usable systems that empower people and organizations to solve real-world problems at scale.