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Digital health refers to the development and use of digital technologies (which includes m/eHealth, health informatics, telemedicine, data analytics, big data, artificial intelligence) and digital transformation initiatives utilized in and throughout health systems to improve health.

The Global Digital Health Certificate program provides concrete training - grounded in real-world challenges and informed by leading-edge scholarship - in the contexts of digital health use and digital transformation efforts in low- and middle-income country settings. It grounds students in the methodologies used for the design, implementation and evaluation of digital health interventions, health informatics fundamentals, and digital health leadership skills. We provide three focal areas, in addition to the core courses, centered on bolstering knowledge and skills in methods and skills; health informatics; and leadership and management.

The overall goal is to prepare current and future global digital health leaders for tackling health system challenges through effective system change and the appropriate application of technology.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of the program, individuals will be able to:

1. Identify and describe a) key types of digital interventions applied to improve a variety of health services and b) the essential components for implementing digital health interventions and digital transformation initiatives within health systems.
2. Discuss and examine the practical issues related to the application of digital health interventions and digital transformation efforts to health systems as well as the social, political, and economic factors that influence global digital health priorities, investments, and research. Critical thinking is encouraged on digital health strategy, investments, and policy; ecosystem enablers; ethics, privacy, and data security considerations; research and evaluation methods; interoperability and data standards; partnership building and stakeholder engagement; and the use of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence.
3. Understand key considerations around the design and implementation of digital health solutions, applying various methodologies to critically appraise technical considerations for the selection, design, adaptation, rollout, and sustainable scale up of digital solutions in a variety of settings.
4. Learn the key principles, components and tools of health informatics, including health information systems, digital infrastructure design for health information exchange, requirements gathering methods and tools such as business process workflows, and data analytics and visualizations for healthcare.
5. Apply evaluation methods to develop an implementation and evaluation plan for a digital health intervention, which includes explaining key reporting requirements, describing different innovative methodologies that could be utilized to evaluate such interventions, differentiating strengths and weaknesses of evaluation methods, and selecting the appropriate quantitative and qualitative data collection methods.
6. Understand the fundamental principles and practices of effective leadership, organization, and management that can be applied in a global digital health context. Key skills covered include stakeholder identification and engagement, strategic planning, systems thinking, collaborative partnership building, change management, programmatic and organizational leadership, people management, and communications.

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