Countries with the largest populations of young people are facing a double disadvantage of weak health systems and low levels of affordable and reliable digital access. These same countries also tend to have fewer instruments in place to protect young people’s digital rights and keep them and their data safe. As levels of connectivity increase, concerted efforts are required to improve the health and well-being of young people growing up in a digital world.

Trusted and inclusive governance architectures based on data solidarity, human rights and other Health for All values are critical to ensure that digital transformations deliver safe and sustainable health futures for young people. The DTH-Lab works with young people to co-create and test a new ‘framework for governing health futures’ comprising a set of proposals for policies, instruments and legislation that build trust in health ecosystems and maximize the public value and health benefits of data and AI. The University of Vienna is a key partner of the DTH-Lab and will deliver core outputs of this work under the supervision of Barbara Prainsack, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the interdisciplinary research platform Governance of Digital Practices.