Strategy and Governance

The current global digital health landscape reveals that successful digital health initiatives should be led through strong governance structures. The strategy, which will work across multiple health priorities, should seek an approach that is underpinned by standards and an architecture that enables such integration.

The strategy and governance team is tasked to support countries to facilitate and accelerate the strategy implementation, develop and implement a comprehensive and effective governance mechanism as well as a action plan, and architecture blueprint using multi-stakeholder and a whole system approach to ensure safety and positive health outcomes in the delivery of digital health systems solutions and devices. The unit also facilitates the development of evidence-based technical documents on different topics related to the emerging use of digital technologies, such as cost-effectiveness, sustainability and affordability, ethical use, privacy, security, and safety.

The key initiatives of the Strategy and Governance Unit  (STG) include:

• Outline the implementation roadmap at the national level with countries to co-create initiatives under the current digital strategy framework of action, and drive the Member states implementation of the Global Strategy on Digital Health

• Develop, pilot, and implement dynamic digital health maturity model to help countries define the status of the digital health strategy implementation; provide access to shared knowledge tools and resources; to guide countries determine which actions to take and invest under the agreed action plan of the global digital health strategy.

• Provide technical support to guide countries tailor, develop, and establish agile digital health governance at the national and sub-national level

• Enable the appropriate use of digital health frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence for health in countries and regions through the development of normative policy, governance models, guidance, and regulations.