The World Health Organization (WHO) announced a plan to establish a global multi-disciplinary technical group to advise the organization on digital health issues. The initiative will support the WHO’s newly established Digital Health Department, which aims to harness the power of digital health technologies and steer developments through the General Program of Work (GPW13) triple billion goals and Sustainable Development Goal 3, which is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all.
To support this work, WHO said it will put together a roster of experts in various areas related to digital health, such as strategic approaches, areas for intervention and governance structures for regulations and adoption of digital health solutions and products. Some of those experts will be selected to be part of a technical advisory group, and others may be called on the be part of specific subgroups.
Members of the technical advisory group will have an understanding and experience working in digital health, national or large scale digital health programs and policy, artificial intelligence and health, virtual and augmented reality in healthcare, biomedical innovation, robotic surgery, wearable technologies and health and wellness, traceability (e.g., block chain) and health, ethics, governance and security in healthcare ecosystem with focus on digital health, health economics with focus on digital health and health law with focus on digital health technologies. I
Deadline to submit an application is June 2. WHO said it will publish the membership of the advisory group once it receives responses and assess conflicts of interest.
