WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE BELIEVE
Young Experts: Tech for Health (YET4H) is a youth-led organisation that aims to create a global youth network that re-imagines healthcare in a digital age. Led by youth, for youth, YET4H believes in a world where young people are resourced and empowered to interrogate the status quo in digital health, represent the diversity of youth, and shape more inclusive and equitable paradigms in the global digital health agenda. YET4H aims to achieve its vision of a global digital health ecosystem that meaningfully engages young people, catering to their unique needs and challenges, recognising them as equal stakeholders and partners in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
WHAT DRIVES US
We are driven by our values:
- The principles of Meaningful Youth Engagement such as co-leadership, co-ownership, co-design, flexibility, autonomy, independence, equity in leadership, intersectionality and transformative design and leadership;
- Inclusion and diversity, including adolescents when legal restrictions allow, to reach the furthest behind;
- Autonomy and independence to exercise leadership and to make decisions within the framework of the project;
- Accountability and transparency with each other, those we work with and work to serve;
- Recognition of pre-existing power dynamics and measures to remedy any power imbalance implemented;
- Anti-racism and anti-oppression;
- Rights-based, people-centered approaches to digital health;
- Zero tokenism as young people are viewed as experts with technical expertise in the relevant field and fairly compensated for work done.
OUR VISION:
A global digital health ecosystem that meaningfully engages young people, catering to their unique needs and challenges, recognising them as equal stakeholders and partners in achieving Universal Health Coverage.
OUR MISSION:
- To build a diverse and inclusive network where young people are capacitated and empowered to interrogate the status quo in digital health, represent the diversity of youth, and shape more inclusive and equitable paradigms.
- To build thought leadership and engender pathways for meaningful youth participation to reimagine healthcare in a digital age and champion youth voices and perspectives, by harnessing the power of human-centred technology to deliver healthcare that is inclusive, equitable and accessible to all.
OUR STRATEGIES:
- We facilitate – connections and collaborations; cross-learning and capacity building; cross-movement and cross-regional dialogue.
- We interrogate – current approaches, systems and narrative of digital health and data as the catalyst for achieving UHC.
- We advocate – for new paradigms and innovative solutions that make digital health more inclusive and equitable.