HealthAI, The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health, hosted the Global Governance Forum 2025: Building Trust in AI for Health, an official pre-summit event of the AI Impact Summit 2026 on December 2, 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya.
In this forum, the Digital Transformations for Health Lab (DTH-Lab) conducted the workshop “From Voice to Action: Youth-Led Approaches for Inclusive AI in Health.”
Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran, Executive Director of the Asia eHealth Information (AeHIN), was part of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Forum and moderated DTH-Lab’s workshop.
Setting the tone for the session, Udayasankaran noted that the youth, being the largest drivers and consumers of digital technologies, are also the ones who will inherit the consequences of AI deployment. It is imperative to involve them in discussions.
He mentioned that engaging the youth will help them build digital literacy, critical thinking, and leadership, enabling them to question biases, protect rights, and promote fairness. “When youth, with their creativity, are involved in planning and co-creating policies, innovations become more inclusive, transparent, and future-ready,” Udayasankaran added.
Kana Halić Kordić, the Vice President for External Affairs of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), delivered a keynote speech highlighting how the youth are building AI literacy, ethical awareness, and governance capacity.
The session discussed how youth can co-create equitable, rights-based AI systems through the Youth Five (Y5) Futures Framework, a tool for evaluating AI governance, as highlighted in the publication “Youth health and well-being in national, regional and global AI governance instruments” by DTH-Lab Fellow Shajoe J. Lake.
It shed light on how AI is affecting youth in various aspects and highlighted how youth can become co-creators of equitable, rights-based AI systems. It also featured a workshop introducing a method for driving youth health, rights, and involvement in AI governance structures. The participants were tasked with group work on design oversight mechanisms focused on care, intergenerational equity, and meaningful participation, and were involved in breakout sessions facilitated by DTH-Lab.