The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the need for good data governance within government. The Asia eHealth Information Network was created by the World Health Organization to support its member countries with their digital health transformation. Realizing that expertise in national scale health information systems, AeHIN started out as a small group of leaders in government, academe, and non-government organizations intent in learning from each other’s experience. To date it has more than 1000 members and champions the Mind the GAPS framework — an acronym the network created to stand for governance, architecture, program management, standards and interoperability – the four major areas where governments must grow to be able to lead digital health transformation in their countries.

Biography – Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo