Lead, Digital Health

Why we are recruiting

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, engaging the foremost leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

The Centre for Health and Healthcare works to identify and scale up solutions for more resilient, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems to deliver the best possible care and keep global populations healthy, happy, and thriving. The Centre achieves this by engaging a diverse set of stakeholders from international organizations, academic institutions, pharmaceutical and biomedical companies, healthcare NGOs, hospitals, healthcare providers, consumer industries, investors, innovators, infrastructure, and insurance organizations to positively shape the global health agenda.

Global health and healthcare is facing serious risks and headwinds; both immediate and long-term. Digital transformation of health and healthcare could play a significant role in overcoming health challenges and improving health outcomes. Artificial Intelligence, telemedicine, internet-of-things, remote patient monitoring, wearables, blockchain and a variety of other solutions working on a foundation of increasingly diverse and rich health data and policy instruments hold the potential to transform how healthcare is delivered and the effectiveness of interventions. If implemented responsibly, these technologies promise to drive patient-centric improvements in health outcomes, increase access, and drive efficiency on a global scale.

Reporting to the Global Lead of Digital Healthcare Transformation, this lead role in Digital Health will be fully dedicated to working on the topic of Digital Health and will support the Centre for Health and Healthcare in driving forward the global digital health agenda, with a major focus on India. The Lead for Digital Health will work with a broad range of stakeholders in identifying key priority areas for application of digital health solutions, diagnose critical barriers, and align coalitions to accelerate change. This will involve engagement with local partners, government, and diverse industry stakeholders in India to deepen existing relationships around digital health and build new ones in alignment with the Forum’s global digital health strategy.

The Lead will work closely with the Word Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) for Lifesciences & Healthcare in Hyderabad, run by the State Government of Telangana. The Lead will closely collaborate with the Telangana C4IR to facilitate the advancement of digital health ecosystems and initiatives where it strongly aligns with the Forum’s objectives, both from a patient-centric and life sciences innovation perspective. The Lead will coordinate this alongside the Forum’s other ongoing efforts in digital health across the Forum’s Centers.

Main responsibilities

• Contribute to the Forum’s global digital health strategy with India-based insights and case studies, while driving local strategy and execution within India in a lighthouse / pilot mode
• Support the proactive development of the C4IR for Life Sciences and Healthcare`s digital health transformation strategy and network as a potential focus example to inform the broader digital health work
• Drive partner engagement opportunities in India with all relevant stakeholder groups – federal and state government entities.
• Facilitate formal and informal dialogues and meetings to help coalesce stakeholders around global, regional, and local digital health challenges and identifying specific and practical opportunities to foster systems change and accelerate impact.
• Generate strategic insights and foundational frameworks for business leaders and policymakers to better understand the full potential of digital health solutions and raise awareness of its importance as an enabler and a foundation for impactful public private partnership and collaboration.

Preferred requirements and experience

• Advanced university degree in public health policy, business, or other relevant fields.
• 8-10+ years of professional experience with significant knowledge of health and healthcare industry strategies, trends, and operations across multiple geographies.
• Significant experience in digital health and/or health technology; understanding of clinical and technical aspects of digital health
• Extensive experience working with public and private sector stakeholders in India in multi-sectoral partnerships or impact driven initiatives
• Experience in analyzing complex business and societal issues using the most relevant business intelligence and in synthesizing appropriate recommendations.
• Proven project management and coordination skills; attention to detail; capacity to apply critical thinking, synthesize various viewpoints, effectively communicate critical messages, and consult broadly across diverse stakeholders.
• Outstanding command of English, with excellent written, digital, and verbal communication skills; knowledge of other languages would be an asset.
• Ability to understand multi-stakeholder interests, align those to meaningful societal action and drive impact.
• Experience writing and developing thought leadership in the form of blogs, research papers and insight reports
• Excellent project management, relationship management, system leadership, research, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office/Excel/PowerPoint and recent digital platforms
• Proven interest in social issues, high degree of personal integrity and values in line with the mission of the World Economic Forum
• Ability to travel internationally

Why work at the Forum:

The Forum believes that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to improve the state of the world by building awareness and cooperation, shaping mindsets and agendas, and driving collective action. Join us and become a driver for positive change!