Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH)

• Achieving one of the three priority areas agreed upon during India’s G20 presidency in 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) virtually.

ABOUT GIDH

• The Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) is a WHO Managed Network aiming to amplify and align resources toward country-led digital health transformation through strengthened collaboration and knowledge exchange.
• It acts as a vehicle to facilitate the implementation of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025.
• The Initiative aims to achieve the following objectives through collaborative efforts:
  • Assess and prioritize country needs for sustainable digital health transformation.
  • Increase the alignment of country-level digital health resources and unfunded priorities.
  • Support the accelerated achievement of the strategic objectives of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025.
  • Build capacity and converge efforts to encourage local development, maintenance, and adaptation of digital health technologies to continuously changing needs.
• It will be a network of networks with four main components —
  • country needs tracker,
  • country resource portal (a map of resources available in a country),
  • transformation toolbox that will share quality-assured digital tools, and
  • knowledge exchange.
• Membership- Membership is open to all institutions engaged in digital health.