Issues

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 71 – 74 PDF Vinodkumar Prabhakaran and Donald Martin Jr. The pervasive digitization of health data, aided with advancements in machine learning (ML) techniques, has triggered an exponential growth in the…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp. 67 – 70 PDF Amy Dickens Health data is a valuable source of knowledge that states can use to advance or undermine the right to health. But the sources and use of health data are changing in our emerging…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 63 – 66 PDF Rajat Khosla Technology is widely known for moving fast and breaking things, to paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg. Indeed, technology is fast moving into each and every aspect of our life, especially our…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 55 -62 PDF Carmel Williams Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is being hailed by various actors, including United Nations agencies, as having the potential to alleviate poverty, reduce inequalities, and…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 49 -54 PDF Louise Holly Introduction The Universal Declaration on Human Rights, adopted in 1948, proclaims that children and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. Almost four decades later, the…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 41 – 48 PDF Sara L. M. Davis The COVID-19 pandemic has massively accelerated a global shift toward new digital technologies in health, a trend underway before the crisis. In response to the pandemic, many…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 33 – 40 PDF Lisa Cosgrove, Justin M. Karter, Mallaigh Mcginley, and Zenobia Morrill Introduction Digital technologies and tools hold much promise. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how helpful…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 21-32 PDF Nina Sun, Kenechukwu Esom, Mandeep Dhaliwal, and Joseph J. Amon Abstract Digital health technologies have been heralded as a critical solution to challenges and gaps in the delivery of quality health…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 7 – 20 PDF Sharifah Sekalala, Stéphanie Dagron, Lisa Forman, and Benjamin Mason Meier Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has led policy makers to expand traditional public health surveillance to take…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 1 – 6 PDF Sara L. M. Davis and Carmel Williams In Donna Haraway’s 1992 A Cyborg Manifesto, the medical anthropologist describes the cyborg as a “hybrid of machine and organism” living “on the boundary between…