The Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) participated in the webinar “Harnessing Data for One Health,” organized by the One Sustainable Health For All Foundation, on March 17, 2026, with stakeholders from Africa, North America, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Oceania participating.

AeHIN Executive Director Mr. Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran was invited to deliver a keynote address. In his remarks, Mr. Udayasankaran noted that global commitments, such as the Quadripartite Joint Plan of Action, the WHO Pandemic Agreement, the Global Health Security Agenda, and the EU Joint Action – Global Health Impact, call for concerted action across human, animal, and environmental health. Digital health can catalyze coordination and cooperation through interoperable platforms, shared standards, and real-time data exchange, fostering collaboration across sectors to co-create integrated systems and strategies. Sustained together, these drive convergence across fragmented actors and platforms, leading to coherence in both policy and practice. Digital health thus enables the translation of global commitments into scalable, integrated, and effective One Health action.

The experts discussed the benefits of collecting, curating, and sharing data on human, animal, and environmental health across institutions worldwide, and shared their respective efforts, challenges, and success stories. Their views emphasized the need for data convergence to predict, prevent, and respond to health risks, while ensuring data sovereignty and interoperability frameworks anchored on trust, ethics, transparency, traceability, equity, and benefit sharing.

With the recommendations from this conference expected to inform discussions at the One Health Summit in Lyon, France, from April 5-7, 2026, the speakers expressed their wishes for the summit to provide guidance and enhanced international collaboration to deliver on the health data convergence agenda.

AeHIN recognizes the critical role of data. AeHIN has long been collaborating with Transform Health to advocate for health data governance (HDG). As part of the ongoing Asia regional engagement initiative with Transform Health, AeHIN has been working with Mongolia, Nepal, and Vietnam to support legislative and regulatory landscape assessments, convene national workshops to validate key gaps and outline actionable recommendations, and develop national implementation roadmaps to strengthen the HDG legislative framework. In 2024, AeHIN, in collaboration with the University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia (UGM), conducted a landscape study and consultative workshops on One Health antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance and data systems in Indonesia.