Haruna Hussein obtained his PhD on e-Learning (design and development of technology-enhanced learning – TEL) at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. His research focuses on designing and evaluating the effect of innovative serious games and gamification for sexual health education in low-tech settings particularly sub-Saharan Africa. His dissertation distinguished and declared as the 2020 recipient of the ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award from The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). He has published research articles that evaluated the effects of digital technologies innovation in education to foster 21st Century Skills for the Digitally-Savvy Generation. Furthermore, he successfully completed a project for the creation of a hybrid health information science programme in Tanzania, which is supported by the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM) from February 2014 to-date. With regards to awards, he has received more than 21 awards including from Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Tom Hall Small Global Health Education Grants in 2017, Distinguished Leadership Award in 2014, and other scholarships, fellowships, academic achievements, and travel grants. His research interest includes game-based learning, gamification, technology-enhanced learning, participatory design research, design-based research, information technology in education, and health information literacy.

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