About Global Health & Digital Innovation Foundation

The Global Health & Digital Innovation Foundation (GHDIF) focuses on challenges where innovation and evidence can contribute to:

1. Patient safety
Helping healthcare providers prevent harm and improve the safety and quality of care.

2. Learning health systems
Strengthening the ability of healthcare systems to learn from evidence, clinical practice and patient experience and continuously improve care.
 

We are shaping a future where digital innovation is not an advantage for a few—but a foundation for health systems everywhere.

Our work enables technologies that are trusted, systems that are resilient, and outcomes that are more equitable—unlocking a new era of global health.

The ultimate beneficiaries of our work are patients and the public. We work primarily through healthcare providers, health systems and other organisations capable of translating evidence and innovation into better care.
 

The beneficiaries of our work include:

• Patients and the general public, who benefit from improved healthcare systems and safer technologies.
• Healthcare professionals and public health practitioners who benefit from improved knowledge and tools.
• Policymakers and public institutions who benefit from research and evidence to inform health policy,
• Researchers and educators working in digital health and public health innovation,
• Communities, particularly underserved populations, who benefit from improved access to health innovation.

The Global Health & Digital Innovation Foundation (GHDIF) supports and undertakes research where it can contribute to better healthcare, patient safety and health outcomes. Our work includes research into digital health, artificial intelligence, health data and emerging methods for measuring and evaluating healthcare innovation.

The results of this research are disseminated publicly through publications, reports, conferences, and open educational resources so that healthcare professionals, policymakers, and researchers can benefit from the knowledge generated.

By making the findings of research widely accessible, GHDIF contributes to improved understanding of how emerging technologies can be used safely and effectively to improve health outcomes.

GHDIF develops and supports education and capability-building in areas where new evidence, technologies and methods can contribute to improving healthcare. This includes digital health, artificial intelligence, health data governance, measurement and evaluation.

This includes organising workshops, seminars, conferences and training activities for healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers and the wider public.
 

Through these activities, GHDIF helps build the skills and knowledge required to support the responsible use of new technologies in healthcare and public health systems.

Educational resources developed by GHDIF are made publicly available wherever possible, supporting wider learning and capacity building.

Many of the most pressing challenges in health and public health require collaboration between healthcare providers, researchers, policymakers, civil society and industry.

GHDIF works at the interface between healthcare, research, technology, industry and policy to identify gaps in evidence, measurement, methods and capability that can prevent beneficial innovation from reaching practice.

GHDIF promotes collaboration by convening relevant stakeholders and facilitating dialogue on responsible innovation in health and healthcare technologies. Through these activities, we seek to bridge gaps between knowledge, innovation and practice, support the identification of effective approaches and enable learning to be evaluated and applied by healthcare providers.

These activities help identify good practice, address emerging risks and support the adoption of approaches that can improve patient safety, healthcare quality and health system resilience.

GHDIF seeks to ensure that improvements in healthcare and the benefits of responsible innovation are accessible across populations and health systems, including underserved and vulnerable communities.

We support initiatives that promote equitable access to effective healthcare approaches, including appropriate use of digital technologies, improved health information systems and better use of health data to inform healthcare and public health.

By promoting approaches that support inclusion and equitable access, GHDIF seeks to ensure that advances in healthcare contribute to improved health outcomes across populations and do not widen existing disparities.

GHDIF contributes to the development of ethical and governance frameworks that support safe and responsible innovation in healthcare technologies. This includes supporting the development of standards, guidance and best practices that help protect patient safety, privacy and public trust.

Our standards and governance work is informed by the need for emerging technologies to be evaluated, implemented and continuously improved within real healthcare systems. 

We therefore support approaches that enable healthcare providers and health systems to adopt innovation responsibly while learning from evidence, experience and emerging risks.

Such frameworks support the effective and responsible adoption of innovation in health systems, contributing to safer, more reliable and continuously improving healthcare.