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Active Collaborative : Digital Health

Purpose

The Digital Health Collaborative supports countries in strengthening efficient and affordable healthcare delivery by integrating digital technologies and data into their health systems. It serves as a platform for practitioners to share real-world experience and jointly advance solutions in areas such as interoperability, private sector engagement, digital health advocacy, and governance.

Expected Outcomes

The collaborative is producing a services of webinars and co-created knowledge products, including guides on digital health governance and private-sector solutions, an AI-enabled resource inventory, and a dialogue toolkit to support practitioners in making the case to invest in digital health, that will be adapted and implemented by collaborative member and other countries.

 

17 Participating Member Countries

🇧🇭 Bahrain, 🇧🇩 Bangladesh, 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 🇰🇭 Cambodia, 🇪🇹 Ethiopia, 🇬🇭 Ghana, 🇮🇳 India, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇰🇪 Kenya, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇳🇬 Nigeria, 🇵🇰 Pakistan, 🇵🇭 Philippines, 🇸🇳 Senegal, 🇸🇸 South Sudan, 🇹🇯 Tajikistan, 🇺🇦 Ukraine

Progress

  • The collaborative first met in  in Jakarta from November 8–10,2023 to formally launch, define a shared learning agenda, and kick off the co-production of knowledge products. Participants engaged in a site visit to Indonesia’s BPJS-Health headquarters, reviewed its advanced digital-health dashboards, and took part in sessions to prioritize key technical focus areas like interoperability, private-sector solutions, digital-health governance, and knowledge-product development.
  • The collaborative held the first Authors’ Workshop in Washington, D.C., from June 3–6, 2024, bringing together country representatives and regional digital health networks to start co-developing key knowledge products. Participants drafted outlines for interoperability and governance guides and gave feedback on an AI-enabled resource inventory.
  • The collaborative held its second collaborative-wide meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, from December 2–4, 2024, to finalize decisions related to knowledge products on digital health governance, interoperability, and an AI-enabled inventory of resources. Participants also drafted outlines for knowledge products on private sector solutions and making the case for investing in digital health.

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Technical Facilitators:

World Bank

Jumana Qamruddin , Global Program Lead, Health Service Delivery

Matthew Thomas Hulse , Senior Health Specialist

Zlatan Sabic, Senior Public Information Systems Specialist

Marelize Gorgens , Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Ali Habib , ET Senior Health Specialist

Malarvizhi Veerappan , Program Manager

Niki O’Brien, Data Governance/ Health Specialist

Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi, Senior Health Specialist

Mahesh Dinkar Nayak , Consultant

Mahlet Gizaw , JLN Health Specialist

Mirja Sjoblom , Senior Economist

Mark Hellowell , Consultant

Ajay Tandon , Lead Economist

Somil Nagpal , Lead Health Specialist

Smisha Agarwal , Director, Center for Global Digital Health Innovation

Binyam Tilahun , Professor Gondar University and Executive Director

Tesfahun Melese Yilma , Assistant Professor, Gondar University

Meredith Kimball , Deputy Director, Health Systems

Heather Viola , Program Officer, Health Systems

Molly Bode, Partner

Marilyn Kimeu , Associate Partner

Ana Maria Garcia Osorio , Engagement Manager

Technical facilitation is provided by the World Bank in partnership with the Gates Foundation and the Digital Health Exemplars Program, including the Center for Global Digital Health Innovation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, eHealth Lab Ethiopia, and the McKinsey Health Institute. Financial support from the Gates Foundation and the Government of Japan is gratefully acknowledged.

Tools and Resources

Forthcoming

  • Addressing Public Governance Challenges in Digital Health: Insights from Country Experiences
  • Private Sector Solutions How-To Guide
  • Making the Case for Investing in Digital Health Dialogue Toolkit
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