Lalitha Bhagavatheeswaran

Lalitha is the Programme Manager at BMJ’s global digital health programs, including the Covid-19 Information Centre (spanning 49 countries in the Asia Pacific Region), funded by the Asian Development Bank and the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Training Initiative (Kazakhstan and Georgia), funded by the US Government. Previous programs include the Primary Care Strengthening Programme in Ukraine, funded by the World Bank, and the CDS Training Initiative in Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Jordan, and Iraq.

Asian Economic Integration Report 2021: Making Digital Platforms Work for Asia and the Pacific

The Asian Economic Integration Report (AEIR) 2021 examines the initial impact on trade, investment, finance, and people’s mobility across the region as the pandemic struck. The report looks at how regional economies individually or collectively respond to the crisis by, for example, leveraging rapid technological progress, digitalization, and increasing services trade to reconnect and recover. This year’s AEIR theme chapter is on digital platforms and how they can accelerate digital transformation across the region.