The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Digital Health & Health Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine was designated on 21 June 2019 to support WHO's wider vision to improve the digital health competencies and capacity of the health workforce.​

Helmed by Professor Josip Car​​​​​​, who is also the Director of LKCMedicine’s Centre for Population Health Sciences (CePHas), the Centre conducts comprehensive reviews towards the synthesis of authoritative evidence, ultimately informing key decision-makers in the astute use of digital health education, particularly for under- and post-graduate education, and lifelong learning across all health professions.

Building health workforce capacity in countries requires major barriers to be overcome in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, universal health coverage, and other health targets proposed in the WHO Thirteenth General Programme of Work.

Read our most recent WHO-commissioned report that tackles the factors required for building health workforce capacity in a framework that integrates digital tools for health workforce development into broader health systems, addressing external, system-level, institutional and individual factors.