PMAC 2025 Conference: Harnessing Technologies in an Age of AI to Build a Healthier World

The PMAC 2025 will focus on leveraging rapid technological advancements, particularly in Artificial Intelligence (AI), to achieve health equity, support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and foster a healthier, more peaceful world.

Conference Highlights

• Focus Areas:
  • Addressing global health challenges, including climate change, emerging diseases, and conflict.
  • Ensuring equitable and affordable access to technologies for low- and middle-income countries and marginalized populations in high-income nations.
  • Strengthening health systems through the innovative use of AI and other technologies.
• Risks Addressed: Security threats, misinformation, inequity, and privacy concerns.

DTH-LAB Participation

DTH-Lab and the Data Solidarity project team from the University of Vienna will present sessions emphasizing the role of data and AI in building equitable health systems.

📍 Side Meeting – Empowering Digital Competency in Health Workforce for Resilient Health Systems.

• 📌Hosted by Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH)
• 🗓️ 28 Jan 2025
• ⏰ 13.40 – 14.30
• Moderator – Aferdita Bytyqi, DTH-Lab Executive Director.

📍 Keynote Address – Youth Engagement in Digital Health: Driving Innovation and Advocacy.

• 🗓️ 28 Jan 2025
• ⏰ 13.30 – 13.40
• Keynote Speaker - Alfredo Lorenzo Sablay, DTH-Lab Regional Youth Champion (Eastern and South-Eastern Asia Region).

📍 Panel Session – Articulating and Mitigating Risks of AI in Health P.S: 3.3

• 🗓️ 1 Feb 2025
• ⏰ 15.00 – 17.00
• Panelist - Magdalena Eitenberger, University of Vienna Data Solidarity Project,Research Assistant.

📍 PS 3.5: Fortifying National Systems for the Age of AI

• 🗓️ 1 Feb 2025
• ⏰ 15.00 – 17.00
• Speaker – Anurag Agrawal, Founding Member, DTH-Lab.