Artificial Intelligence for health: opportunities, risks, and governance
May 30, 2024
Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly Strategic Roundtable
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform global health by providing advanced tools for surveillance, drug development, administration, diagnosis, treatment, and patient care. It can improve access to services, address workforce shortages, and reduce health system costs. But the success of AI depends on governance, equity, data, regulations, policies, and more.
The rapid growth of AI underscores the urgent need for this roundtable, which will drive collaboration to harness AI for health, while ensuring a focus on justice and inclusion, and protections for human rights and privacy.
- Composition (generating music and lyrics—this is what scares people)
- Production (mastering, mixing)
- Analysis and classification (powers recommendations and curation)
- Content ID and copyright protection (rights management)
Aligning with WHO’s support to countries on the digital transformation of health systems, this roundtable aims to: initiate discussions around a possible renewed Global Strategy on Digital Health and AI (2026-2030), explore priorities for the Global Initiative on AI for Health (GI-AI4H); identify priority areas for guidance, technical support and consensus-building; and distribute responsibilities across stakeholders, including resource mobilization to support Member States in leveraging AI to strengthen health systems.
Speakers from academia, ministries of health and information and communications technology, the regulatory and private sectors will review the state of the art of what is possible with AI in health and address key issues, including public-private partnerships, national and regional regulatory oversight, and the investment case for AI in health system strengthening.
The session takes place at the UN Palais des Nations, Room XVIII on Thursday 30 May 2024 between 13:00–14:15 CEST.
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