New Delhi: Taking advantage of the Indian presidency of the G20 and the prolific actions and commitments of previous presidencies, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia they are organizing two days world conference in digital health – ‘Taking Universal Health Coverage to the last citizen’ from March 20 to 21, 2023 in New Delhi.
Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, and Union Chemicals and Fertilizers, will chair the global conference. Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary, Lav Agrawal, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO SEARO, Prof. Alain Labrique, Director, Digital Health and Innovation, WHO/HQ and Manoj Jhalani, Director Healthcare system Department, WHO, SEARO will also be present at the meeting.
The conclave will bring together world leaders and development partners for health, health policy makers, digital health innovators and influencers, academics and other stakeholders. The goal of the global conference on digital health is to shift the focus from strategy to achieving global consensus on an action plan that produces impactful results on the ground in member countries, through a set of digital health initiatives that target to accelerate our progress. to UHC.
The conference will address issues in accelerating the implementation of connected digital health initiatives and interventions as a cornerstone of building PHC-oriented and resilient health systems. It will also focus on unlocking the potential of delivering and sharing digital health solutions in an ethical, secure, trustworthy, equitable, and sustainable manner. The conference will also focus on finding ways to invest, develop and share digital technologies following the principles of transparency, accessibility, scalability, replicability, interoperability, privacy, security and confidentiality. This will help establish the strategic and technological enablers needed to implement digital health at the population scale.
