Description
The turn to digital health and an ever-growing expansion of health data programmes are presenting huge potential for effective health governance. This potential, however, does not come without its own challenges. Contributions on this panel point out that a range of pressing questions emerge as health technologies are becoming increasingly central to the governance of different health issues. From the visualisation of pandemic data to the question of data sovereignty, the panel investigates the underlying rationales and exclusions built into current approaches. Instances of marginalisation are brought into focus, and discussions also turn to tensions with adjacent regulatory regimes in a growing bioeconomy. At the intersection of several burgeoning fields of technological and entrepreneurial development, health data often serves more than one purpose – and governance needs to strike a balance that still promotes health while not impeding the advance of new technologies.
