[Air-L] UN Human Rights Council Side Event: Digital innovation, new technologies and the right to health, June 23

[Sara Leila Margaret Davis]

UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SIDE EVENT:
DIGITAL INNOVATION, NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTH
INTERNATIONAL GENEVA GLOBAL HEALTH PLATFORM
23 June 2023, 13:00 -  14:30

Hybrid: Auditorium Ivan Pictet A1B, Maison de la paix, Geneva Graduate
Institute and online - Register here
<https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/un-human-rights-council-side-event>

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of artificial intelligence
(AI) and digital systems to enhance access to healthcare services. Tracking
applications, information sharing platforms, telemedicine and more have
sparked a boom in digital health that has improved many peoples’ quality of
life. However, in most countries they are rolled out without clear legal or
other normative frameworks to guarantee the protection of human rights,
including accessibility, acceptability, quality, and non-discrimination.

This event will share a new thematic report to the UN Human Rights Council
on digital innovation, technologies, and the right to health from the UN
Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest
Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health. Diverse panelists will
reflect on the Special Rapporteur’s recommendations, and develop key action
priorities for the development of stronger global, regional and national
rights-based standards on digital health. This event is organized by the
Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN) in
collaboration with the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+),
Privacy International, STOPAIDS, and the Global Health Centre of the
Graduate Institute.

Panelists:

   - *Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng |* UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
   - *Nerima Were |* Acting Executive Director, Kenya Legal and Ethical
   Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN)
   - *Dr. Mandeep Dhaliwal |* Director: HIV and Health Group, Bureau of
   Policy and Programme Support, UNDP
   - *Joyce Ouma |* Advocacy and Campaigns Officer at the Global Network of
   Young People living with HIV (Y+ Global)
   - *Timothy Fish Hodgson |* Legal Adviser: Economic, Social and Cultural
   Rights at the International Commission of Jurists (Africa).

Opening remarks by *Prof. Sara (Meg) Davis |* Professor of Digital Health
and Rights, University of Warwick; Associated researcher, Global Governance
Centre, Graduate Institute; and Principal Investigator, the Digital Health
and Rights Project <https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/DigitalHealth-Rights>.

Please register here
<https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/un-human-rights-council-side-event>
to join either in-person or online


-- 
*Sara ("Meg") Davis, Ph.D.*
*Senior researcher, *Global Health Centre
*Principal Investigator, *Digital Health and Rights Project
<https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/DigitalHealth-Rights>
And at University of Warwick: Digital Health and Rights Project
<https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/research-projects/digital-health-rights/>
*Pronouns:* She/hers
*Hours:* I am working on UK time.

*Books:*
*The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health*
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/uncounted/C0CC81C0F03D1822D05C13EE31FA0957#fndtn-metrics>
*Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders
<http://cup.columbia.edu/book/song-and-silence/9780231135269>*

*Ted talk:*
The Uncounted: The people left out of health data
https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_meg_davis_the_uncounted_the_people_left_out_of_health_data