Digital Global Health: Empowering Resilient Communities through Digital Transformation

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According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) half the world's population remain without decent health. Despite the promise of digital to accelerate health service delivery across the globe, many people still lack access to essential health services as it is neither available nor affordable. Digital Global Health presents an opportunity for digital transformation where innovative need-solution pairing and entrepreneurial discovery processes make health services accessible, available and affordable and sustainable.

Everywhere, and particularly in the Norwegian context, its “Digital Transformation and Development Policy”, access, skills, regulations and inclusion, are the drivers for development. While digital transformation has reached the industrial sector, the potential in applying digital health for empowering good health and well-being for all (SDG 3) has not reached its potential. Digital inclusion is one of the key drivers for community change, and was accelerated through the COVID-19 pandemic. 
 
This event launching the Digital Global Health Crosscutting Theme will address key issues including information access on the internet, trusted digital health information, and other means to foster empowering resilient communities. Join this live webinar as the theme's leader, Professor Josef Noll and invited speakers discuss and reflect on these contemporary topics:

• Access to information on the Internet as a human right
• Digital healthcare services in the underserved communities
• Digital health promotion for community involvement
• Trusted health information or “let the market fix”  (Lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic, Infodemics)
• Creation of resilient communities

More about the Digital Crosscutting Theme

Program

Time	Title	Speaker
13.00	Welcome	Jeanette H. Magnus | Director, Centre for Global Health, UiO
13.02	Introduction	Moderator - Josef Noll | Professor, Department of Technology Systems (ITS), UiO & Secretary General, Basic Internet Foundation
13.05	Role of Norway in promoting digital public goods	Kristin Sverdrup | Project Director, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
13.15	Digital inclusion and transformation for achieving the SDGs	Paul Richard Fife | Director, Department of Human Development, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
13.25	Sustainability and Digital Transformation as a business opportunity	Kim Gabrielli | Director, United Nations Global Compact
13.35	Discussion	Arunima Sehgal Mukherjee | Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Information Systems, Department of Informatics (IFI), UiO   Christine Holst | Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Global Health, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute for Health and Society (HELSAM), UiO    Tom Neumark | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Health and Society (HELSAM) and Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), UiO
14.00	Digital health promotion and community involvement	Rüdiger Krech | Director, Health Promotion, World Health Organization (WHO)
14.10	Panel discussion continues with specific questions to Rüdiger
14.25	Closing remarks	Josef Noll

Webinar Format

This webinar format will include individual presentations from each of the speakers followed by a panel debate and a live Q&A session with the audience. All participants must register in order to receive the webinar link. Please note that this webinar will be recorded.

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