USAID envisions a world in which all people have equitable access to safe, secure, and reliable health services and data to promote well-being. To support reaching this goal in an era of increasing digitalization, the USAID Digital Health Position Paper (2024–2029) lays out a strategic vision for USAID investments and activities that advance global health using digital technologies.
USAID believes that digital technologies can be a critical enabler of global health and broader socioeconomic development when invested in and managed strategically. To deliver this strategic value, USAID’s investments and activities that leverage digital technologies should be aligned to meet and advance the health-sector digital maturity of partner countries, as described in the four programmatic priorities laid out in USAID’s Vision for Action in Digital Health: 2020–2024 (Digital Health Vision). This position paper builds on the Digital Health Vision by identifying six practices to help USAID operationalize the Vision’s four priorities for digital health programmatic investments.
