What We Do
The Hub strengthens digital health literacy by producing knowledge resources, informing policy development, enabling expert collaboration, and fostering community centered learning.
Our work converts research into understanding, expertise into shared value, and innovation into responsible, equitable practice.
- Core Activities
We carry out targeted research, develop accessible educational content, and connect experts across sectors to ensure that digital health tools and practices are understood and applied responsibly.
Our activities support both conceptual development and real world testing, helping ideas move from theory into effective practice.
Our core work includes:
- Producing research publications and policy briefs
- Generating accessible educational materials
- Supporting expert collaboration across sectors
- Developing frameworks for responsible digital health use
- Organizing workshops, panels, and learning exchanges
- Supporting pilot applications in real-world contexts
- Academic & Policy Bridge
- Our Outputs
We disseminate knowledge through multiple formats that support both scholarly rigor and public accessibility.
Our outputs translate expert insight into materials that can inform policy, improve practice, guide implementation, and deepen understanding at all levels, from research communities to everyday users of digital health tools.
Our outputs include:
- Peer-reviewed research
- White papers
- Working briefs
- Explainers and tutorials
- Podcasts, webinars, and learning content
- Working Audiences
Our work is designed to serve the people and institutions that shape, deliver, and experience digital health systems.
We support those who develop policy and regulatory frameworks, those who practice and implement health technologies and those who advance the science behind them.
We ultimately support the public, which benefits from informed and fair access to digital health.
We work with and support:
- Policymakers and regulators
- Healthcare professionals and institutions
- Academic and research communities
- Technologists and innovators
- Civil society, communities, and educators
- Funding, Independence, and Governance Policy
The Hub is a nonprofit, public-benefit organization established to advance its mission exclusively in the public interest. The Hub has no owners, shareholders, or equity holders, and no part of its income or assets may be distributed for private benefit. The Hub is currently in the process of obtaining recognition as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
Funding Sources
The Hub may receive funding from:
- Public and governmental grants (including European Union and international funding programs)
- Foundations and philanthropic institutions
- Individual charitable contributions
- Program-related revenue and mission-aligned activities
- Contractual collaborations and in-kind support
Founders, board members, advisors, and affiliated individuals may support the Hub financially only through charitable donations or formally documented, arm’s-length agreements, in full compliance with applicable U.S. and EU nonprofit regulations.
Independence and Scientific Integrity
The Hub maintains full programmatic, scientific, and governance independence. Funding relationships do not confer decision-making authority, preferential treatment, or undue influence over research agendas, policy positions, publications, dissemination activities, or strategic priorities.
Governance and Conflict of Interest
The Hub is governed by an independent Board of Directors and operates under established policies for:
- Conflict of interest
- Transparency and accountability
- Ethical conduct and compliance
Relationship with Affiliated Entities
Where the Hub collaborates with affiliated for-profit or mission-aligned entities, such collaborations are structured through clear contractual arrangements, consistent with nonprofit law, EU funding requirements, and best practices for independence and accountability.
Use of Assets and Dissolution
All assets of the Hub are irrevocably dedicated to its charitable purpose. Upon dissolution, any remaining assets will be distributed in accordance with applicable law to one or more organizations with aligned public-benefit missions.
