Kawaldip Sehmi

Kawaldip is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations. He has an academic background in public health and law and has a passionate belief in improving access to services through digital health and justice services. As the managing director of an international children’s legal center, he led a team of international lawyers improving the rights of the child, including the right to health, by applying Remote Courts. He has also served as the chief executive officer of an international mental health charity, specializing in niche mental health services supporting young people and adults with complex mental health, personality disorder, and substance misuse problems access telehealth and digital mental health services.

Kawaldip is a passionate advocate of the WHO’s human rights-based approaches to health and strengthening of the institutional, legislative, policy, practice, and standards framework. He believes this support is needed to achieve the health goals outlined in the Sustainable Developmental Goals 2030, specifically in SDG 3.8, to ensure universal health coverage for all.