Plenary session & World Café (scroll down) being run as part of the DPH 2025 conference.
Date: Thursday, 24th July 2025
Time: 11:00 – 12:30
Session Overview
In this strategic plenary session, expert panellists will explore the ethical and social implications of responsible innovation in digital public health, particularly posed by the meteoric rise of AI and data-intensive technologies.
A key aim of the session is to bring together the voices of both invited experts and attendees in identifying potential roles for digital public health practitioners, researchers, and wider stakeholders in addressing such ethical challenges through three expert use cases of creating greater value for those communities intended to benefit.
In the course of the session, participants’ views will be sought through polls and feedback on the most urgent ethical dilemmas to prioritise. The results will provide the basis for a high-level roadmap.
The plenary will be complemented by a World Café session (for more information scroll down) on June 26th focused on the co-development of a draft roadmap with actionable outputs.
Speakers
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The Alan Turing Institute
Eldorado Research Institute, Campinas, Brazil
UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
WHO European Regional Office
World Café
A Roadmap Dialogue: Ethical Dilemmas in AI and Responsible Innovation in Digital Public Health
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Date: 26th July
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
Session overview
This World Café session builds on the outcomes of the strategic Plenary session to support participants in a deeper discussion around ethical priorities identified in the plenary, as well as to align relevant conversations across broader conference tracks.
The World Café format focuses on engaging participants in facilitated small group dialogue and the sharing of insights so that everyone is a contributor to the final outputs.
Together, participants will have an opportunity to co-create and generate actionable recommendations for a holistic roadmap and policy-informed approach to deliberations on how the DPH community can responsibly and ethically design and deliver innovation in digital public health.
Outcomes of the World Café will be disseminated more widely to the DPH community through a proposed white paper and policy brief.
Facilitators
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The Alan Turing Institute
ISI Foundation
