Building tomorrow's digitally capable health workforce: QDHeC leads international AI literacy initiative

2 December 2025

UQ’s Queensland Digital Health Centre is leading a major international project to develop the DIGI-HEAL Framework, assessing AI training needs and building capability across Australian and UK health workforces.

The project is led by Dr Lee Woods, Senior Research Fellow from the Queensland Digital Health Centre (QDHeC) at The University of Queensland. It involves leading researchers from UQ, the University of Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, King's College London, and the University of Nottingham, with partners from Queensland Health and the NHS.

As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms healthcare delivery, the initiative addresses the question of how to ensure the health workforce is ready for an AI-enabled future.

Over the next 12 months, the international team will:

  • Assess current AI training across Australian and UK health systems

  • Identify learning needs among health professionals

  • Co-design solutions with academic, clinical, and policy stakeholders

  • Develop and publish the DIGI-HEAL Framework for AI Literacy in Health

 

Read the full article on the Queensland Digital Health Centre website here.

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