Session
This session will discuss roles that digital public policy can have in preserving and improving the global public health in emergency situations. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the deployment of digital technologies can make our societies more resilient to these global health threats. However, if technologies are accompanied by ineffective digital policies, then these can have detrimental effects on societies. Discussants will exchange views on the role the Internet and digital technologies can have for improving health; the future of telemedicine and local and global multistakeholder responses to the deployment of digital public policy for public health systems.
Moderator: Mr. Patrick Leusch, Head European Affairs at Deutsche Welle
Panellists:
- Mr. Bernardo Mariano, Director, Digital Health & Innovation and Chief Information Officer, World Health Organization
- Dr. Anurag Agrawal, CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Director; Member of the WHO Digital Health Advisory Group, India
- Ms. Kira Radinsky, Diagnostic Robotics, Chairwoman & CTO
- Ms. Precious Matsoso Malebona, University of the Witwatersrand, Director of the Health Regulatory Science Platform, South Africa
- Ms. Anuradha Gupta, Deputy CEO, Gavi