Navigating digital health waves

Episode #9

11 January 2022


GUESTS

Alvin Marcelo, Executive Director of Asia eHealth Information Network and Chief Medical Information Officer of St. Luke's Medical Center in the Philippines

Karin Källander, Senior Health Adviser and Chief of the Digital Health & Information Systems Unit, UNICEF

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About this episode

Increasingly, digital technologies are transforming the delivery of health services and the functioning of health systems. Many of these technologies have also presented new ways of doing research and informed rapid decision-making. In this episode, we hear how UNICEF worked with Jamaica to rapidly deploy an electronic registry solution for the COVID-19 vaccine. We also learn that the Government of the Philippines created a huge opportunity for research by allowing open access to data from COVID-19 tests.

Biographies of our host and guests

Garry Aslanyan

Executive Producer and Host of the Global Health Matters podcast

Email: aslanyang@who.int

Alvin Marcelo

Executive Director of Asia eHealth Information Network and Chief Medical Information Officer of St. Luke's Medical Center in the Philippines

Karin Källander

Senior Health Adviser and Chief of the Digital Health & Information Systems Unit, UNICEF

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