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Help Craft WHO Digital Health Strategy
We have a WHO Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2027. [ https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/a64d584f-015b-471f-9d86-... ] We need a successor strategy for 2028–2033.
Please join the World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office in discussions to inform how 1.9 billion people across South-East Asia access digital health systems, AI tools, and cross-border health data for the next decade.
The consultation is open now. RSVP to participate on Wednesday, March 18. [ https://who.zoom.us/meeting/register/_OH_A1B_RgyKB0KorASItg#/registration ]
What We'll Discuss on March 18
WHO-SEARO is leading multi-stakeholder webinars to feed structured regional input directly into the global strategy drafting process. Outputs can become formal Member State submissions to WHO Headquarters.
The webinars will cover what determines whether digital health works in practice. Topics include:
• Interoperability
• AI governance
• Health data sovereignty
• Sustainable financing
• Equity in access
These decisions determine whether a community health worker has a functional tool or a broken one.
Join Us to Effect Change
RSVP now to join us to discuss these questions:
• What should the new Global Digital Health Strategy look like?
• How should it build on the earlier strategy?
• What concerns of LMICs must the document reflect?
This webinar series is in partnership with WHO-SEARO and Intelehealth, along with KCDH-Ashoka University, KCDH IIT Bombay, NAAMII Nepal, ICMR NIHDHDS and Thoughtworks.
You can also send in your inputs [ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLjxOMedEHZQTlqOE93eVjiTG18rsP... ] for this multi-stakeholder conversation in writing.
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HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org