Global Health Informatics webinar: WHO update

28 March 2025

The GMDS project group “Global Health Informatics (GHI)” organized a webinar with an overview of the activities of the WHO Department of Digital Health & Innovation.

Dr. Alain Labrique from the World Health Organization (WHO) gave a follow up webinar to last year’s session. Dr. Labrique is the director of the Department of Digital Health & Innovation at WHO. This time, he and his team focused on the following topics:

  1. Introduction to the Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) and what it takes for GMDS to become a member
  2. WHO AI and Global Initiative on AI for Health priorities 
  3. Dialogues and information gathering about the German Digital Health Architecture for GDHCN