GPHW2024: Digital Health Citizenship: Advancing digital health and civic literacy through intergenerational dialogues

Theme: Enhancing and Democratizing Governance in Global Health

Date and Time: 9th April 2024 | 14:00-15:15 CET

Event Description: In the era of digital transformation, ensuring the health and well-being of young people requires strategic action. The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing up in a digital world has outlined essential recommendations that stakeholders must heed to support the thriving health and well-being of the younger generation. To move the Commission’s recommendations into tangible action, the Digital Transformations for Health Lab (DTH-Lab) was established in 2023. The global consortium with hubs in Africa, Asia, and Europe is a multidisciplinary platform aiming to strengthen digital and data governance to improve young people’s health and well-being.

Enfranchising young people to co-design and critically engage with digital-first health systems is a core project of the DTH-Lab as part of efforts to increase public participation and digital health citizenship. By partnering with youth and youth organizations at the global, regional, and country levels, the DTH-Lab is launching an assessment of young people’s perception of digital health citizenship to support the co-creation of desired health outcomes, promote youth leadership and support a generation of informed and enfranchised digital health citizens.

Digital health citizenship emerges from the intersection of digital transformations, health, and citizenship. Recognizing that individuals have rights, responsibilities, and agency in the digital health landscape, digital health citizenship promotes active participation, informed decision-making, and ethical use of digital health technologies and platforms. To advance digital health citizenship, particularly among the youth population, improved capacity must be enacted particularly focusing on the unity of digital, health, and civic literacy.

This intergenerational dialogue aims to assess the current perception of digital health citizenship with a particular focus on garnering youth insights and their key asks in becoming more enfranchised digital health citizens. Discussants will share preliminary work on this topic including a current scoping study on digital health literacy tools from the Young World Federation of Public Health Association (YWFPHA) and the general landscape of current work on digital health citizenship. Moreover, the DTH-Lab will launch an online survey to support its broader work of co-designing and solution creation with young people in becoming enfranchised digital health citizens in the age of digital transformations.

DTH-Lab links:

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YWFPHA links:  

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Event Type: Seminar / Webinar

Event Format: online

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): Young World Federation of Public Health Association (YWFPHA)

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom Link (will be sent after registration)

Registration: Link