JLN Digital Health Collaborative Knowledge Product Showcase Series

The Joint Learning Network (JLN) Digital Health Collaborative Knowledge Product Showcase Series spotlights practical, country-driven lessons from the JLN’s Digital Health Collaborative. The session presents products that help countries navigate the steep learning curve of digital health and AI by co-producing and sharing guidance on issues prioritized by country policymakers. The upcoming session highlights insights emerging from the collaborative community, including lessons to strengthen governance by blending evidence, tools, and real-world practice through country co-created KPs: Addressing Public Governance Challenges in Digital Health and the Digital Health Companion (DHC), an AI-enabled, retrieval-augmented chatbot with a curated knowledge base developed with country policymakers. The session has three objectives. First, it offers solution-oriented lessons from diverse country experiences on designing and sequencing governance reforms spanning regulatory frameworks, institutional models, sustainable resourcing, and coordination mechanisms suited to centralized and decentralized contexts. Second, it demonstrates how the DHC supports learning through a curated knowledge base that answers context-specific questions. Third, it distills actionable strategies from country experiences that participants can adapt to their own contexts.

Join us to learn how countries are advancing digital health governance and capacity, and to explore practical tools you can apply in your work.

Learning objectives

1. Provide solution-oriented lessons from diverse country experiences on designing and sequencing governance reforms spanning regulatory frameworks, institutional models, sustainable resourcing, and coordination mechanisms suited to centralized and decentralized contexts (based on the product “Addressing Public Governance Challenges in Digital Health”).
2. Demonstrate the Digital Health Companion (DHC) and how it supports learning through a curated knowledge base that answers context-specific questions.
3. Distill actionable strategies from country experiences that can enable participants to think through the approach and how to action it in their own contexts.

Audience

The audience for the session is both internal and external. Internally, it targets colleagues across the World Bank, e.g., health, digital development, governance, and operations teams, who support country counterparts on digital health strategy, regulatory reforms, institutional design, and implementation, as well as staff involved in the development, procurement, and rollout of digital solutions in the health sector. Externally, it engages country policymakers and implementers driving digital health transformation, including representatives from ministries of health, finance, ICT, and planning; national digital health units; regulators; and subnational leaders, alongside partners such as development agencies, industry, civil society, and academia.

Speakers

Chair:

Matthew Thomas Hulse, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank

Presenter:

Niki O’Brien, Data Governance / Health Specialist, World Bank

Discussants:

(Country Panel)

Siti Nurbaya Shahrir, Public Health Physician, Ministry of Health Malaysia

Hammond N. Sarkwah, Deputy Director ICT, Ghana Health Service

Zdravko Grubac, Coordinator for Digitalization in Health Sector, Republika Srpska Ministry of Health and Social Welfare

John Ulysses M. Galo, Information Officer IV, Knowledge. Management and Information Technology Service, Philippine Department of Health

(Reflections from regional networks)

Steven Wanyee, President, HELINA

Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran, Executive Director, AeHIN

Joseline Carias Galeano, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), RECAINSA

Moderators:

Malarvizhi Veerappan, Program Manager, World Bank

Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi, Senior Data Governance Specialist, World Bank

Closing remarks:

Matthew Thomas Hulse, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank

How to join:

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