Paying the costs of connection: Online launch

Principal Investigator of the Digital Health and Rights Project She has over twenty years’ experience in global health and human rights and is the author of two books. She earned her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and UCLA. She was China researcher at Human Rights Watch, and founding executive director of Asia Catalyst. At the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Dr. Davis led work to operationalise the Fund’s commitments on human rights. She has held visiting fellowships at New York University, Columbia University, and Fordham University and taught at the Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Temple University, Yale University, and University of Pennsylvania. Her consulting clients have included UNDP, UNAIDS, IFRC, ICRC, Global Fund Board delegations, and civil society networks. In 2017, she was one of three winners of the International Geneva Award.

Bernard Koomson is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK. His current research explores the future of human rights and youth participation in the digital age, through transnational collaborative approaches with researchers and civil society groups. He is particularly interested in how power, social and economic inequalities shape access and governance within the digital community for marginalised young adults, and the extent to which these inequalities affect the uptake of their fundamental human rights, particularly the right to health. Through a rights-based epistemological lens, he employs a participatory approach to the study of communities and grassroot organizations that promote human rights initiatives. As a development sociologist, he employs a multiplicity of techniques within a largely qualitative tradition to the study of his research interests. His research interests include youth culture and human rights, politics of child and youth economic migration, NGOs and community development, and emerging digital communities.

Allan Maleche is a dynamic leader, an advocate of the high court of Kenya and a human rights defender with over fifteen years of experience in law, ethics, governance, policy, health and rights, including eight years managing rights-based programmes that protect affected, marginalised and vulnerable populations.

He is currently serving as the Executive Director of Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (KELIN). He sits and co-chairs the UNAIDS Human Rights Reference group and is a member of the International Advisory Board for the Global Health Centre.

A former Board Member of the Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Global Fund Board, where he also served as a member of the Global Fund’s Audit and Finance Committee, and the former Chair of the Implementers Group of the Global Fund Board.

Hoang has been working as a researcher for VNP+ since 2023 under the DHRP project. He is an epidemiologist and biostatistician with over 10 years of experience as a dedicated researcher in public health. His expertise lies in the domains of epidemiology, advanced statistics, environmental health, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and the intricate study of human behaviours.

Alberta Nadutey is a dedicated young researcher involved in the Digital Health and Rights Project, with a strong focus on the future of human rights in the digital age. She is also a professional in disability, rehabilitation, and development, committed to advocating for the inclusion of marginalized and vulnerable populations. Her work is driven by her passion for creating accessible healthcare systems, ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their abilities, have equal access to care and support. She is dedicated to using her expertise to advocate for the digital rights and inclusion of marginalized populations and ensure their voices are heard in digital health policy discussions.

Sociologist. Interested in understanding the dynamics of participation and interactions in online social networks, datafication processes and the consequences of digital infrastructures, platforms and algorithms. He has been involved in the project The Future of Human Rights in the Digital Age, since June 2023 and coordinated the research component in Colombia.

James Kiilu is a member of the Kenyan Community Advisory Team for the Digital Health and Rights Project, an international research project, which in Kenya is hosted by KELIN. Currently a final-year medical student at the University of Nairobi with a strong interest in global health practice. He has been a youth advocate at the Centre for the Study of Adolescence for the last four years. There, he has worked with communities to promote sexual health and reproductive rights. He also serves as the Director of Outreach at the Integrated Cancer Research Foundation, where he works to promote cancer literacy, early screening, and vaccination against Human papillomavirus. James is also the current chair of the Public Health Club at the University of Nairobi.