Oommen is a physician, public health researcher with a special interest in health informatics and applied design thinking for health systems. He completed his MD in Internal Medicine from CMC, Ludhiana and an Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He leads the Health Systems Design portfolio at BMGF, India Country office and supports the Southeast Asia regional engagement on Primary Health Care. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Health Science Informatics, a conjoint lecturer at Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney and Professor at Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education and an associate editor of Oxford Open Digital Health. Oommen has extensive experience in designing, implementing and evaluating innovative solutions to strengthen health service delivery. He has served with WHO in Immunization Strengthening and Vaccine Delivery, Research and Development at country office India and South East Asia Regional office. As Director, Clinical Decision Support at Wolters Kluwer he led the strategic initiatives for scaling evidence based decision support in clinical care delivery in emerging markets. At George Institute for global health India, he led research initiatives evaluating the role of digital health interventions in improving clinical outcomes in chronic conditions and established the India health innovations accelerator in partnership with University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has served as the President of the Indian Association for Medical Informatics and Secretary of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics. He has been a member of the scientific advisory committee at Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics (FIND), Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health, WHO Digital Health Guidelines Development Group and ITU-WHO focus group on Artificial Intelligence for Health.