Office of Global Innovation
Connecting data, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, policy, and implementation to help governments and partners respond to emerging public health challenges with stronger systems, better decisions, and greater impact.
Foundations & Futures
Foundations
The report argues that AI can only deliver public value when strong public health data systems, governance, infrastructure, and institutional capacity are already in place.
Regional Landscape
Across Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America, countries are moving from different starting points but confronting a shared question: what foundations are needed for responsible AI in public health?
Futures
With the right foundations, AI can help public health systems see earlier, act faster, and respond more effectively, from surveillance and service delivery to planning and resource allocation.
Call to action
The report calls for long-term investment in the systems that make intelligence possible: durable institutions, public governance, connected infrastructure, and the capacity to act.
PILLARs
Public Health Infrastructure & Learning Laboratory for AI Readiness
A global South learning Exchange Network
A peer-driven learning exchange where governments share experience and strengthen country-led foundations for responsible AI in public health.
Who’s involved
Governments, regional institutions, technical partners, and civil society working across the Global South to strengthen public health systems, policies, and practice.
In practice
PILLARs supports peer exchange, real-world practice sharing, practical knowledge building, and collective problem-solving on common system bottlenecks.
What you can access
Explore members, convenings, and knowledge hub resources shaped by country experience, targeted learning, and practical exchange.
About us
Office of Global Innovation
Vital Strategies’ Office of Global Innovation connects data, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, policy, and implementation to help governments and partners respond to emerging public health challenges with stronger systems, better decisions, and greater impact. Grounded in Vital Strategies’ strengths in public health intelligence, strategic communication and advocacy, and institutional strengthening, the office helps turn new tools and new ideas into practical public health progress at scale.
AI for Impact
Vital Strategies tools and initiatives showing how stronger data systems can turn innovation into practical public health action.
Clara IA
Built through Vital Strategies’ work in Recife, Brazil, Clara IA helps health teams use data and AI to identify early signs of gender-based violence, reduce underreporting, and support earlier intervention.
Focus
Gender-based violence
Canary
Canary is Vital Strategies’ AI-powered digital monitoring tool, built to track how harmful products are marketed online and reveal patterns in digital advertising and social media content that often escape regulation.
Focus
Digital monitoring
CODA
CODA is an AI-enabled effort led by Vital Strategies to improve cause-of-death determination, helping countries generate stronger mortality data for planning, policy, and public health action.
Focus
Mortality data
Our impact
Recent Vital Strategies reporting shows how data, policy, and partnership translate into measurable public health progress