Mustafa Khan came to Carnegie Mellon from Chicago, Illinois. He is pursuing a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and he has an interest in technology policy. His professional experience includes stints in the banking, health care, and telecommunications industries. He worked in Corporate Finance for Citibank in New York.  Prior to coming to Pittsburgh he was based in the Chicago area, working in Business Planning for WorldCom's local fiber optic network.  Mr. Khan earned his bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.

"Virtual Community in Health Care:  Prospects in Peru" is a capstone project undertaken by a team of Masters of Public Policy and Management students at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School.  TechBridgeWorld is launching a new public health initiative, learning what technologies could best assist with global public health challenges and exploring the creation of a virtual community for health care practitioners.  To assist with the initial stages of this new project, TechBridgeWorld has benefited from the policy expertise of this team of Master of Science in Public Policy and Management (MSPPM) students at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School.  This group project was conducted as a collaboration between TechBridgeWorld and the Heinz School in fulfillment of the MSPPM Systems Synthesis Project requirement. 

A virtual community would provide unique opportunities to share best practices among peers in the public health field.  This group project aims to design a template to determine the feasibility of a virtual community for health care practitioners in developing communities.  The planned feasibility template will be composed of two parts:  the social network among potential participants and the IT-readiness of the community. 

As a case study, the students are exploring the feasibility of a virtual community composed of health professionals in Peru.  Their study focuses on reproductive health professionals including doctors, nurses and midwives as potential participants in this virtual community.  This project is being conducted with the assistance of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Peru's Department of Health.