Jamie Pina

Dr. Jamie Pina is RTI’s vice president of data strategy. As the first person to hold this role, Pina applies his extensive experience in biomedical and public health informatics to an enterprise-wide effort to transform data governance, infrastructure, and analytics. He leads RTI’s inaugural Office of Data Strategy; 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.

Before being named to his new role in 2025, he served as the Senior Director leading RTI’s Center for Data Modernization Solutions, and as Scientific Director of Public Health Technology. He served as Principal Investigator for the NIH-funded BioData Catalyst, a cloud-based platform designed to facilitate data sharing, access, and analysis across various biomedical research projects, and Principal Investigator for Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) initiative, which aims to explore, prevent, and treat long COVID through comprehensive research and data analysis. These and other projects share a theme of expanding the use of health data models and integrating generative artificial intelligence (AI) into public health practice to improve efficiency.

Throughout his career, Dr. Pina has been a proponent of emerging technologies in public health practice, and a leader of organizational initiatives that make this possible. He previously founded and led the Population and Public Health Informatics Program, RTI’s first formal program dedicated to public health informatics. Dr. Pina spent three years as the Vice President of Public Health Data Modernization & Informatics at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), championing the need for public health data modernization across a national audience while directing research and technical projects for government and commercial partners.

His research has also explored the use of text messaging to improve adolescent health, the development of public health quality improvement taxonomies, and the implementation of health IT systems. Dr. Pina’s doctoral research focused on the use of electronic notifiable conditions reporting systems in public health practice.

Dr. Pina is actively engaged in public health informatics and data modernization, providing strategic guidance to public health practitioners on the responsible and effective use of artificial intelligence. In 2022, he was appointed to ONC’s 2022 Public Health Data Systems Task Force, establishing national data modernization guidelines for public health practice, which are now integrated into ONC’s Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-2) rule. Recent publications include a paper in Public Health Reports on digital tools adopted by public health agencies for COVID-19 case investigation and contract tracing and an article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice discussing the congressional investments in public health data modernization. Dr. Pina was named a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association in recognition of his lifetime achievements in biomedical and public health informatics. He is an Adjunct Professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and a Board Member on the Health Informatics Advisory Board at George Mason University.