Programme at a Glance
The Global Digital Health Forum comes to Asia for the first time in its sixteen-year history. Three full days in Bangkok, from 2 to 4 December 2026, hosted at the Centara Grand and Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld.
GDHF 2026 is co-hosted with Thailand's Ministry of Public Health and supported by WHO Thailand, with the Global Digital Health Network leading content programming.
The Forum is hybrid. In-person participants join us in Bangkok, and the full virtual programme runs alongside it across time zones. Registration is open now.
The 2026 Tracks
Every session in Bangkok sits in one of seven tracks. These were set by the Global Digital Health Network and used to structure this year’s call for abstracts.
Governance and Digital Health at Scale
How countries move beyond fragmented pilots to nationally owned systems: governance models, coordination mechanisms, and evidence-based decisions about what to scale and what to retire.
Interoperability and Digital Public Infrastructure
Interoperable architectures across EMRs, registries and labs; data governance, privacy and consent; unique patient identification; open standards and digital public goods.
AI for Health
Applied AI in clinical care, public health and system management, alongside the data readiness, validation, bias mitigation and regulatory frameworks that responsible adoption depends on.
Cybersecurity, Resilience, and Continuity
Protecting digital health systems and keeping them running: risk management, backup and disaster recovery, incident response, and continuity in fragile and emergency settings.
Workforce Capacity and Leadership for the Digital Future
Competency frameworks, capacity building in data, AI, interoperability and cybersecurity, change management for digital transformation, and strengthening local talent pipelines.
Financing for Sustainability
Long-term financing models, cost-effectiveness and value for money, procurement and partner alignment, and the transition from donor funding to domestic budgets.
Climate and Health
Climate-informed surveillance and early warning, climate-resilient health system design, and the integration of environmental and health data.
Full track descriptions and sample topics are on the abstracts page.
Session Highlights
A first look at the sessions taking shape for Bangkok, drawn from across the tracks and regions. More will be added as they are confirmed. Each card notes whether the session is in person or virtual, and sponsor sessions are labelled as such.
Thailand
Thailand Health Atlas: a national geospatial platform for area-based public health planning
Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
Governance & Digital Health at Scale
Vietnam & ASEAN
Integrate once, deploy everywhere: scaling clinically validated health AI across Vietnam and ASEAN
OneMedic
AI for Health
India
Connecting state child-health and national TB systems for stronger TB management in Rajasthan
Khushi Baby
Interoperability & Digital Public Infrastructure
Nepal
From pilot to provincial scale: institutionalizing an open-source EHR across rural Nepal
Nyaya Health Nepal
Governance & Digital Health at Scale
Indonesia
A FHIR architecture linking community immunization records to Indonesia’s national health platform
Castellum Digital Indonesia
Interoperability & Digital Public Infrastructure
Philippines
From classrooms to early warning: school-based digital disease surveillance in Antipolo City
City Government of Antipolo
Governance & Digital Health at Scale
Global
Youth voices for people-centered digital transformation of health systems
Transform Health
Governance & Digital Health at Scale
Africa
From pilot to public-health infrastructure: scaling autonomous medical logistics
Zipline
Governance & Digital Health at Scale
Sierra Leone
Digital Integrated Supportive Supervision (ISSV): a district health-system intelligence model for primary-care supervision and national scale-up in Sierra Leone
German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Governance & Digital Health at Scale
Thailand
Strengthening a school-based digital mental health ecosystem in Thailand’s border communities
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
Governance & Digital Health at Scale
Pacific
Pacific Digital Health Academy: a regional model for workforce development
The Pacific Community (SPC)
Workforce Capacity & Leadership
Asia-Pacific
A Pacific Common Data Set for interoperability: hands-on clinical data modeling
Interoperability & Digital Public Infrastructure
Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s HRIS: turning operational systems into foundational digital public infrastructure
World Health Organization, Bangladesh
Interoperability & Digital Public Infrastructure
India
AI-powered wireless monitoring across the 1,000-day journey to reduce maternal and newborn deaths
Janitri Innovations
AI for Health
Kyrgyzstan
Integrating open-source telemedicine into Kyrgyzstan’s digital public infrastructure
Intelehealth
Interoperability & Digital Public Infrastructure
Sri Lanka
From climate data to early warning: an open-source DHIS2 climate-health intelligence ecosystem
HISP Sri Lanka
Climate & Health
Nigeria
Responsible AI-powered clinical documentation within Nigeria’s national electronic medical record
Palladium
AI for Health
Global
Embedding security into open-source culture: early lessons from the OpenMRS community
OpenMRS
Cybersecurity, Resilience & Continuity
Global
WHO SMART Guidelines and digital adaptation kits: a hands-on localization workshop
World Health Organization (WHO)
Interoperability & Digital Public Infrastructure · Workshop
Africa & Southeast Asia
AI for mortality surveillance and CRVS: strengthening mortality data
Vital Strategies
AI for Health · Panel
Cambodia
Digital classrooms for remote capacity-building of frontline community health workers
UNICEF Cambodia
Workforce Capacity & Leadership
Chile
Integrating ICD-11 into electronic health records: Chile’s national pilot
Universidad de Talca
Interoperability & Digital Public Infrastructure
Latin America & Caribbean
Collaborative leadership: a regional women’s leadership ecosystem for digital health
RECAINSA
Workforce Capacity & Leadership
Yemen
Digital health governance in humanitarian settings: lessons from Yemen’s primary health care digitalization
Ministry of Public Health, Yemen
Governance & Digital Health at Scale
Kenya
Why insured women still pay out-of-pocket: lessons from Kenya’s digital family planning ecosystem
Jhpiego
Financing for Sustainability
Asia-Pacific
Who pays for digital health? Rethinking financing and partnerships in a post-ODA era
UNICEF
Financing for Sustainability · Panel
Malawi, Cambodia & Eswatini
Rationalising digital health architecture under aid cuts: a government-owned method
Clinton Health Access Initiative
Governance & Digital Health at Scale · Panel
Uganda
Paying frontline workers per verified case: an outcome-based financing model for community Kangaroo Mother Care
Dimagi
Financing for Sustainability
Global
From diagnosis to defense: building cyber resilient health systems
World Bank Group
Cybersecurity, Resilience & Continuity · Panel
Kenya
Making AI work in frontline care: implementation lessons from the first pragmatic RCT of an LLM clinical decision support system in African primary care
Penda Health
AI for Health
Malawi
Climate-smart innovation: an AI-driven tasking feature for frontline resilience, integrated with meteorological data
Last Mile Health
Climate & Health · Panel
Pakistan
Beyond early warning: lessons from Pakistan’s first offline, voice-first GenAI companion for climate disaster preparedness
Viamo
Climate & Health
Thailand
Hatyai ROD: a real-time One Data platform for flood health resilience and emergency response
Prince of Songkla University
Climate & Health · Poster
Global
Trusted cross-border health data: GDHCN, personal health records, digital health wallets and digital ICVP in practice
World Health Organization (WHO)
Interoperability & Digital Public Infrastructure · Workshop
Thailand
From digital infrastructure to data governance: scaling smart hospitals across Thailand’s public health system, 2024–2026
Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
Governance & Digital Health at Scale
Sponsor Session
From Black Box to Open Weights: empowering global health innovation with open models
Google
AI for Health
Sponsor Session
The System Public Graph: a living representation of the world’s science and health knowledge — open, connected and computable
System
AI for Health · Lightning Talk
Sponsor Session
Sustainable business models for scaling digital healthcare delivery
Digital Connected Care Coalition (DCCC)
Financing for Sustainability · Panel
The full session-level programme will be published in October. More than 950 abstracts were submitted for Bangkok and assessed by 68 volunteer peer reviewers drawn from ministries of health, universities, multilaterals and implementing organizations, convened independently by the Global Digital Health Network. You can see every reviewer named here. The structure below shows how each day is built so that you can plan travel and secure approval to attend now.
The Shape of Each Day
Wednesday 2 DecemberDay One
- Opening Keynote
- Ministerial PlenariesOpen to all participants
- Ministerial ProgrammeA half-day government convening, by invitation, running alongside the open programme
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 1
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 2
- Lunch
- Plenary Panel
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 3
Thursday 3 DecemberDay Two
- Private Breakfast Side Events
- Opening Plenaries
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 4
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 5
- Lunch
- Plenary Panel
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 6
Friday 4 DecemberDay Three
- Private Breakfast Side Events
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 7
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 8
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 9
- Lunch
- Breakout Sessions & WorkshopsBlock 10
- Closing Plenary
This is the shape of the Forum, not a fixed timetable. Blocks run in parallel across multiple rooms. Confirmed daily start and finish times will be posted on this page as soon as they are locked, ahead of the session-level programme.
What Happens at GDHF
Session formats
- Interactive workshops
- Panel presentations
- Lightning talks
- Solution demonstrations
- Individual presentations
- Poster presentations
Beyond the sessions
- Exhibitor hall across all three days
- Appy Hour, an evening reception where exhibitors and implementers demo their tools
- Private breakfast side events
- The Marc Mitchell Award, presented annually at the Forum
- Pop-up studio interviews streamed to the virtual audience
- Side events convened by regional network partners
Planning Your Trip
Need approval to attend?Many colleagues need to secure institutional approval and travel budget well before a session-level programme is available. Registration is open now, and the pages below cover what most approval processes ask for. If you need a formal letter of invitation for your organization or for a visa application, please get in touch and we will provide one.
Three templates colleagues have found useful: a letter to your manager with a budget overview, a benefits worksheet, and a post-conference ROI worksheet. A letter of invitation template for visa applications is available to download and complete yourself.
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Curious what a GDHF programme looks like in full? The complete 2025 programme, including all eight tracks, is available here.