I received this email from WHO Digital Health:
The World Health Organization would like to invite you to participate in a virtual public consultation on the Draft Global Strategy on Digital Health, which will take place over the course of a month, from 29 March to 30 April 2019.
Use of digital technologies to improve public health as well as individual health and well-being is growing rapidly. This field, also referred to as digital health, has been recognized as instrumental in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and achieving universal health coverage (UHC).
WHO Member States reiterated the importance and role of digital health in the recent resolution WHA71.7 which highlights “recent progress in the development and implementation of digital health strategies, policies, legislation and programmes by Member States, WHO and partner organizations”.
At the same time, the resolution requests the development of a Global Strategy on Digital Health, in close consultation with Member States and with inputs from relevant stakeholders.
The field of digital health involves a wide range of stakeholders from policy-makers to technology developers, healthy individuals and patients. The target audience for this consultation is all stakeholders active in the digital health arena, who are welcome to submit their comments. These could include policy-makers and officials from governments and nongovernmental organizations, UN agencies, donors, health care professionals and their organizations, health managers, academic and research institutions, individuals, patients and their associations, youth groups, ICT professionals and their associations and private companies. All are invited to read the draft Strategy and encouraged to contribute comments.
The draft Strategy and the online consultation are available at https://extranet.who.int/digitalhealthstrategy-consultation.
If you do not yourself work in the area of digital health or the digital arena more widely, please could you kindly forward this message to your colleague(s) more concerned with this area.
