Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure to Strengthen Digital Health Systems

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) forms the backbone for public service delivery and a digital foundation for a range of functional applications including health care, economic recovery, and climate change.

Co-Develop aims to accelerate the adoption of inclusive, save, and equitable DPI in 50 countries in the next five years.

This research will focus particularly on strengthening the digital health components of digital public infrastructure and will fund five work packages: - Health Sector Partnership Plan that summarizes the digital health strategies for the 10-15 major donors supporting global digital health efforts to increase coordination of funding and identify gaps. - Research the key trends in digital health (including individual health records, AI, diagnostics, health worker empowerment, telemedicine, disease surveillance, etc.) and the underlying Digital Health Infrastructure Enablers that are required to support these services. - Develop three to five Digital Health Investment Proposals for the Co-Develop Investment Committee to review, iterate these concepts with partners, refine the proposals, and shepherd the proposals through to grant completion. - Seek out and engage expert voices across civil society, community research, and others to collaboratively develop a “playbook” for equitable, ethical and inclusive digital public infrastructure. - Broadly share the above outputs through a deliberate communications strategy.