News and Blogs

Privacy International speaks to Alberta Nadutey - a reasearch officer for working on the Digital Health and Rights Project about how young people in Ghana interact with digital health, and Minh Anh a young person from the Vietnam community advisory team about her participation in the research in Vietnam, and what she sees as the biggest digital health concerns as a medical student interested in public health policy.

Privacy International's popular Technology Pill podcast featured a series of interviews with young researchers from our project in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam.

The Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP) World Health Assembly is pleased to announce its side event titled 'Promoting Human Rights in Digital Health and AI Strategies: National and Global perspectives'.

In the digital age, human rights face new challenges and opportunities that directly impact our health, dignity, and well-being. This MOOC, entitled "Rights and Health in the Digital Age: Protection and Advocacy," offers an educational journey through the fundamental concepts of digital human rights, their international regulatory framework, their links to digital health, and advocacy strategies for their defense.

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

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.