HealthAI Global Governance Forum 2025: Building Trust in AI for Health

André C P L F de Carvalho is Professor and Dean of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil. He coordinates the Brazilian Applied AI Research Centre for Smart and Sustainable Cities IARA and the National Science and Technology Institute of AI for Social Good.

He is a member of the Computer Science Advisory Committee of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, the Steering Committee of the International Network for Government Science Advice Latin American and Caribbean Chapter, the UK Expert Advisory Panel for the AI Safety Report and Chair of the Working Group on Machine Learning and Data Mining of the IFIP TC on AI.

Eric is a Senior Health Economist leading the OECD’s work in Digital Health, bringing together policy guidance for digital tools, integrated data, and responsible analytics including artificial intelligence. In that role, he is accountable for measuring and evolving the OECD’s Recommendation on Health Data Governance (2016) and supporting digital health policy that provides data protection (e.g. security and privacy) and timely access to quality data to optimize the use of data for information, insights, and impact among individuals, health workers, policy makers, researchers, and innovators.

Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran (Jai) is the Executive Director of the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), with over 20 years of experience in digital health, including hospital information systems, telemedicine, and chronic disease management platforms. He serves on the Board of the Global Digital Health Network (GDHN) and contributes to several international and national standards bodies, including ISO and the Bureau of Indian Standards. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India.

Jai regularly supports digital health workshops across South and South-East Asia and has contributed to various publications on digital health standards and practices.

Judith Murungi is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a research associate at the Young African Policy Research Hub. She was trained by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law on AI, Law, and Ethics. She also holds a diploma in internet governance and regulations from the University of Mendoza and has attended both the South School and African School on Internet Governance.

Judith was named a 2025 Rising Star in AI Ethics by Women in AI Ethics. She has presented on legal and ethical concerns around AI in African health care systems at the International Pandemic Sciences Conference and the Oxford Global Health and Bioethics Conference. She serves on the Expert Group on Health and Mental Health at the World Federation of the Deaf and was awarded second-best oral presentation at the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity in Athens.

Kevin Lampen-Smith is a regulatory expert with experience across markets, occupational, health and safety and health systems. Experienced chief executive and senior leader with a focus on strategy development and activating key drivers to bring about real behavioural change. At the Ministry of Health in New Zealand, he focused on taking a system level perspective to regulatory design and delivery with the aim of aligning regulatory regime governance to delivering on whole of system outcomes.

Kirsten Mathieson has 20 years experience working in global health policy and advocacy. She is Deputy Director and Policy Lead at Transform Health, a global coalition of organisations that advocate, campaign and build consensus to strengthen the enabling environment for the digital transformation of health systems to achieve UHC. Working with coalition partners, Kirsten leads the policy and influencing work of the coalition, particularly on health data governance and digital health investment. Kirsten was previously Global Head of Policy and Advocacy at Save the Children, leading health and nutrition advocacy and policy efforts, with a focus on UHC, primary health care, immunisation and access to medicines. She is former Vice Chair of the Gavi CSO Steering Committee and member of the UK Action for Global Health network Steering Committee. Kirsten previously worked at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and UNDP Kenya.

Nadine Sabra is the E-Sahha/Digital Health Program Manager at the Global Health Institute at the American University of Beirut, where she leads projects in artificial intelligence, e-health, and digital health. She oversees the implementation and operations of field-based initiatives focused on digital health, maternal health, and refugee health. Nadine also coordinates two regional initiatives: the Global Health and Artificial Intelligence Network in the Middle East and North Africa (GHAIN MENA) and the Responsible AI for Global Health (RAI4GH). She holds a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree.

Peter Speyer is Head of Data & AI at the Novartis Foundation, focused on using AI to understand needs, predict risks, develop solutions, and innovate continuously towards precision population health and reducing inequities. Previously, Peter co-founded Novartis’ transformational data42 program which enables the use of the company’s deep pre-clinical, clinical, and real world data to accelerate and improve drug R&D. Prior to his work at Novartis, Peter was Chief Data & Technology Officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle. He managed the data for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study and created IHME’s global public data catalog Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) and innovative interactive data visualizations. Peter holds an MSc in Business & Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and an MBA from Temple University, Philadelphia.