A regional workshop on Health Data Governance and Digital Health for Health Sector Resilience was held in Kurunegala on 24th October 2023. This workshop is a continuation of the collaboration with AeHIN on the Convergence Meeting on Digital Health governance held in 2022. Many eminent speakers including  Dr. Sampath Indika Kumara (Provincial Director of Health Services, North Western Province), Dr. Palitha Karunapema (Director/ Health Information), Kirsten Mathieson (Transform Health) spoke at this event. It included panel discussions and group designed to meet the following objectives.

1. Create awareness about the concept of Health Data Governance among stakeholders
2. Identify pain points of the stakeholders when working with health data
3. Brainstorm how those pain points can be addressed by a Health Data Governance framework

Report on the workshop

will follow shortly.