About Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH)
- It is a WHO managed network aiming to amplify and align resources toward country-led digital health transformation through strengthened collaboration and knowledge exchange.
- It is a platform for sharing knowledge and digital products among countries.
- The initiative aims to achieve the following objectives through collaborative efforts:
- Assess and prioritize the country’s needs for sustainable digital health transformation.
- Increase the alignment of country-level digital health resources and unfunded priorities.
- Support the accelerated achievement of the strategic objectives of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025.
- Build capacity and converge efforts to encourage local development, maintenance, and adaptation of digital health technologies to continuously changing needs.
- The initiative will be a network of networks with four main components:
- country needs tracker
- country resource portal (a map of resources available in a country)
- transformation toolbox that will share quality-assured digital tools
- knowledge exchange.
- GIDH will support countries in three ways: by listening to their needs, by aligning resources to avoid fragmentation and overlap, and by providing quality assured products.
- Membership: Membership is open to all institutions engaged in digital health.
Q1) What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
Founded in 1948, WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health.
Source: WHO launches digital health platform agreed upon in India’s G20 presidency
Last updated on June, 2025
→ UPSC Notification 2025 was released on 22nd January 2025.
→ UPSC Prelims Result 2025 is out now for the CSE held on 25 May 2025.
→ UPSC Prelims Question Paper 2025 and Unofficial Prelims Answer Key 2025 are available now.
→ UPSC Calendar 2026 is released on 15th May, 2025.
→ The UPSC Vacancy 2025 were released 1129, out of which 979 were for UPSC CSE and remaining 150 are for UPSC IFoS.
→ UPSC Mains 2025 will be conducted on 22nd August 2025.
→ UPSC Prelims 2026 will be conducted on 24th May, 2026 & UPSC Mains 2026 will be conducted on 21st August 2026.
→ The UPSC Selection Process is of 3 stages-Prelims, Mains and Interview.
→ UPSC Result 2024 is released with latest UPSC Marksheet 2024. Check Now!
→ UPSC Toppers List 2024 is released now. Shakti Dubey is UPSC AIR 1 2024 Topper.
→ Also check Best IAS Coaching in Delhi