Commentary
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Transform Health
Initiative
Transform Health unites organisations worldwide to advance equitable digital health transformation and bring quality care within everyone's reach.
Transform Health is a global coalition of 250+ organisations working to ensure that the digital transformation of health systems benefits everyone. It works towards ‘Universal Health Coverage’ by 2030 – a world where everyone can access the health services they need, without financial hardship. Alongside expanding digital technology, the coalition strengthens the conditions for equitable digital health systems, from political will to sound data governance and coordinated investment. It also amplifies the voices of young people, women and marginalised communities, demanding that health systems reduce rather than deepen inequalities.
- Partners
- 250+ organisations, including Amref Health Africa, PATH, PharmAccess and PMNCH
- Working in
- Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Senegal, Tanzania
- Approach
- Coalition-building, advocacy and health data governance
- Focus
- Equitable, inclusive digital transformation of health systems for universal health coverage
- Launched
- 2019
Challenge
Digital health can expand access – if it works for everyone
Around half the world's population still cannot access essential health services. Digital technology and data could change that, improving the quality and reach of care while lowering its cost. But without an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable approach, it risks deepening existing health inequalities. Today, digital health is often built in silos, leading to fragmentation, duplication, and a lack of sustainability or scalability. Too little coordinated investment reaches the systems that matter, and weak policy leaves countries without the foundations to guide change.
The programme’s Health Data Governance Principles (HDGP) have been endorsed by over 170+ organisations and governments.
Approach
Change starts with consensus
Across its national coalitions, Transform Health brings governments, civil society and communities together to influence how digital health is governed, funded and implemented. The majority of its partners are based in low- and middle-income countries, with strategies that are locally owned, co-created and informed by evidence. Transform Health also connects these national efforts globally, advocating for greater investment and a shared framework for health data governance that protects individual rights, serves the public interest and helps improve health outcomes.
