Harriet V. Washington

Harriet Washington’s career spans over 25 years with the U.S. Government and international organizations. She has lived and worked in Africa, having worked for the Peace Corps, in the Office of the Directors, which included working in the office of overseas recruitment (Talent Search) and the Office of Congressional Affairs, and the Agency for International Development. Thirteen of these years were spent living and working in West and Central Africa; Accra Ghana; Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire and Yaounde, Cameroon. Ms. Washington is experienced in personnel management and training, budget management, international and domestic conference planning and project/program coordination.


Since 1996, Ms. Washington has worked in project planning and coordination in the field of health information technology (HIT). She has planned a five-country video teleconference on healthcare initiatives. She worked on a special consultancy with the Martin Luther King Foundation on voter registration in South Africa to elect President Nelson Mandela. In 1999 Ms. Washington joined the staff of the Howard University Telehealth Sciences and Advanced Technology Center (HUTSATC), where she worked on healthcare, telemedicine, video teleconference and technology projects. Harriet also has served on assessment-team site visits and traveled to Nigeria for Howard University projects in Nigeria. By training staff and streamlining office procedures, she has made office operations more efficient.


Currently Ms. Washington is involved in several health information technology initiatives and is working both at the Howard University College of Medicine on an NIH-funded grant and with VRMx, and Zane Networks in Silver Spring, MD.