Better Data for Better Health (May 18, Afternoon)

Session 2: Data governance: good practices
➡️ Importance of data governance: views from UN and non-UN/civil society
🗣️ Non-UN and civil society: Kirsten Mathieson (Policy and Advocacy Lead, Transform Health, and member of the Data & Digital Governance Working Group, HDC) and Victoria Fan (Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Development)
🗣️ UN: Steve MacFeely (Director Data and Analytics, WHO, and co-chair of the HDC)
➡️ Big data infrastructure and management, and good data governance practices: platforms to safely store, disseminate and use data to improve performance of health care in Primary Health Care (PHC)
🗣️ Xen Santas (Global Associate Director Informatics, US CDC)
🗣️ Malarvizhi Veerappan (Senior Data Manager and Program Manager, World Bank)
➡️ Q&A on applying data governance and facilitated discussion
➡️ Country good data governance practices (from collection to storage, sharing, analysis and use) for health impact: what works
🗣️ Vikas Dwivedi (Senior Health Information Systems Adviser, The Palladium Group) on behalf of the Health Data Collaborative Data & Digital Governance Working Group
➡️ Data Governance practices in South Sudan
🗣️ John Rumunu (Director General Preventive Health Services, South Sudan Ministry of Health) and Kediende Chong (Director General Policy Planning, South Sudan Ministry of Health)
Country panel reflecting on translating good data governance into practice
🗣️ Naeem Akhtar (Deputy Director, Pakistan Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination)
🗣️ Louis Richard Njock (Secretary General, Cameroon Ministry of Public Health)
🗣️ Fathimath Shamah (Director, Maldives Ministry of Health)
🗣️ John Rumunu (Director General Preventive Health Services, South Sudan Ministry of Health) and Kediende Chong (Director General Policy Planning, South Sudan Ministry of Health)
🗣️ Ima León (Information Systems Director, Uruguay Ministry of Public Health)
🗣️ Elibahati Akyoo (Data Officer, WHO Office Tanzania)
➡️ Building a data governance framework together: Proposal for “Adapting good data governance practices for countries”
🗣️ Facilitated discussion with countries leading the call