World Health Summit 2022: How to Achieve a Global Health Data Space

Join our session at the 2022 World Health Summit

Breaking the data silos is essential to reshape the future of healthcare and crisis preparedness. With the growing opportunities of digital health and artificial intelligence (AI), we are, more than ever before, in the pole position for a Global Health Data Space that could help to treat and govern data for health as a global public good. However, across and within countries there is a stark divide in the capacity to effectively work with data. The 2021 I-DAIR Global Research Map reveals, the divide between data use leaders based in a small number of countries and the rest of the world is growing. Additionally, biases in data relating to gender, race, and age limit the universal benefit and the trust in data use.

Only when used equitably and ethically, the work with data can offer an unprecedented possibility to improve global health and well-being and achieve UHC 2030. Impact at the global level will thereby only be possible with shapers and decision-makers from different disciplines including from countries of relatively lower income and/or with smaller populations. With this session, we wish to spark stakeholder engagement for a transparent data system that protects citizens’ data and facilitates their use for healthcare and research.

Follow this link to watch the session live on 18 October from 09:00 a.m. (CEST).

Chairs:

• Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter
  Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) | Professor for Brain Simulation | Germany

Speakers:

• Dr. Marlies Dorlöchter
  DLR Project Management Agency | International Health Research | Head of Division | Germany

• Dr. Ruxandra Draghia Akli
  Johnson & Johnson | Global Head of Global Public Health R&D | United States of America

• Dr. Steve MacFeely
  World Health Organization (WHO) | Data Analytics | Director

• Dr. Mehdi Snène
  International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) | CEO ad interim | Switzerland

• Paweł Świeboda
  Human Brain Project | Director-General | Belgium