Global Digital Health Strategy

Key points

CDC's Global Digital Health Strategy provides a roadmap to achieve digital health goals through a coordinated global effort. The strategy aims to improve the availability and use of data in health systems and accelerate digital enablement of the global health workforce.

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Overview

Purpose‎

CDC published the Global Digital Health Strategy (GDHS) as a call to the global health community to rally around the vision of interoperable global digital platforms.

The GDHS aims to improve the availability and use of data in health systems,and accelerate digital enablement of the global health workforce. The strategy provides the first steps of the roadmap to achieve digital health goals through a coordinated global effort.

Aligned with CDC's Data Modernization Initiative, the GDHS was developed through a collaborative process with a broad array of internal and external partners and organizations. The strategy is organized around four concepts that make up a digitally enabled global health system:

  • Global and regional monitoring and response.
  • Country health programs.
  • Country digital enablement.
  • Common infrastructure.

Read the strategy to learn about this vision of digital transformation and the role that CDC will play in its realization.