Difficulties and Solutions for Public Health Data Governance Under the Normalization of Epidemic Prevention and Control

Abstract

COVID-19 has become the world’s largest public health emergency in recent years. For the needs of epidemic prevention, governments of various countries encourage public and private institutions to actively use digital technology to carry out joint prevention and control work. The use of data governance to prevent and defuse major risks and improve the ability to respond to public health emergencies is an important part of promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities in the new era. This article believes that the establishment of a data security governance mechanism in public health emergencies should be based on application scenarios, with legality as the basic requirement, establish an accountability system, adhere to the principles of transparency, purpose restriction, confidentiality, and minimum necessity, and standardize digital technology design based on this Standards and effective supervision of public health data.