From Advocacy to Academia: Becoming a DHRP Scholar
Amina Salaudeen, Women's Rights and Safety officer at TechHER, on becoming an MA student at University of Warwick.
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Amina Salaudeen, Women's Rights and Safety officer at TechHER, on becoming an MA student at University of Warwick.
Exciting new webinar series brings together government, civil society, UN and youth voices to talk about how to address gender, equity and rights in new national digital health strategies!
A visit to University of Warwick and lecture at Queen Mary University London by a NAP+ Ghana researcher
Reflections from the PLHIV Leadership Summit for the Asia-Pacific region by Abhijith present deep reflections on the value of co-creating digital justice with a focus on the lived experiences of PLHIV. It is a call to action for meaningful involvement of PLHIV as people who are capable of building, rebuilding, and strengthening collective power in a rapidly changing digital world.
The blog reflects on the AI in Health Africa Conference 2025, stressing that AI must be co-created with communities rather than designed for them. Drawing on lessons from the Digital Health and Rights Project, it emphasises the need for digital skills, genuine community involvement, stronger local innovation and youth voices in shaping AI policies.
UN guidance on gender, equity and rights in digital health, with summaries and links
Winnie Gift Inganga, a member of the Kenya Community Advisory Team, highlights the urgent need for collective responsibility in protecting data and privacy. It explores how governments, corporations, and even close relations misuse personal information, leading to surveillance, discrimination, and harm. With Kenya’s legal framework providing protection, it emphasises awareness, accountability, and the duty to safeguard each other’s digital rights.
Jack Wilson, author of the Countering Misinformation module, describes what led him to collaborate with young people in DHRP to create the module.
In the margins of the 77th World Health Assembly on May 21 2025 in Geneva, leaders from governments, multilateral agencies, civil society and academia convened for a pivotal hybrid event titled “Overcoming Barriers to Digital Health: Protecting Human Rights and Preventing Online Harm in the Digital Health Transformation.” The side event, co-hosted by the University of Warwick and STOPAIDS, marked the global launch of the Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP)’s newest report: Paying the Costs of Connection.
The Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP) is proud to introduce our Digital Rights Advisory Council (DRAC), a multidisciplinary expert group that provides strategic guidance on human rights in digital governance.
We are excited to welcome Fundación Karisma, a civil society organisation based in Colombia, as the newest member of the Digital Health and Rights Project.