Jonas Bambi

Jonas Bambi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, Faculty of Health. His career spans two decades in healthcare Information Management and Information Technology (IMIT), where he has held progressive roles as a clinical application analyst, senior systems analyst, team lead, clinical applications manager, clinical systems integration architect, project manager, and co-director of Applied Health Data Analytics. This breadth of experience has shaped his ability to bridge technical expertise with clinical, organizational, and policy perspectives, influencing leaders and supporting health system transformation.

Jonas’s research program sits at the intersection of health informatics, advanced analytics, and health systems improvement. He focuses on using machine learning to analyze complex health data, uncover patterns of healthcare service utilization across the continuum of care for individuals with complex conditions, and generate insights that inform both clinical decision-making and system-level planning. His doctoral work was a longitudinal study that developed novel methodologies for analyzing healthcare encounter data, contributing to the broader vision of a true learning health system.

Another key dimension of his current work explores how technology can support safe aging at home. Grounded in the Ubuntu philosophy — “I am because we are” — Jonas emphasizes the importance of trust, interdependence, and community-centered care. He seeks to design systems that are not only technologically robust but also compassionate, culturally responsive, and rooted in collective well-being. This approach includes integrating the lived experiences and stories of elders and caregivers to guide the development of tools and services that are both usable and meaningful.

Jonas is also advancing projects that aim to build target information architectures enabling machine learning to learn effectively from healthcare data, while translating advanced methods into accessible tools that clinicians and health leaders can use without deep technical training. His work often involves creating living labs, to test and refine innovations in real-world contexts.

Collaboration is central to Jonas’s approach. He works across academia, health authorities, community organizations, and industry to ensure that data-driven insights are actionable and relevant. He has contributed to multi-institutional initiatives such as the Applied Health Data Analytics (AHDA) program, partnering Island Health with UVic, UBC, SFU, Dalhousie University, and the University of Toronto to develop user-friendly analytics solutions. His research emphasizes knowledge translation, ensuring that innovations move beyond theory into practice, improving outcomes for individuals and communities.

With academic training in computer science (MSc), technology management (MBA), and health informatics (PhD), Jonas brings a multidisciplinary perspective to his teaching, research, and community engagement. His overarching goal is to harness health informatics, data science, and digital health innovations to optimize healthcare delivery, enable safe and dignified aging in place, and strengthen resilient, equitable public health systems inspired by principles of shared humanity and collective care.

For publications, see: ‪Jonas Bambi - ‪Google Scholar.