Digital and Data Capabilities for Sexual Health Policy and Practice: stage one report

New digital and data practices present significant challenges for the fields of sexual health promotion and sexual healthcare provision. Sexual health workforces and community health organisations are increasingly required to understand and work with data-driven digital devices and platforms - from MyHealth Record, to chatbots, to the organisational Instagram account. Accordingly, research, practice and policy are beginning to attend to the relationships between digital capability and data capability at both individual and organisational levels. But what are digital and data capabilities in a sexual health context? This report introduces new models for digital and data capabilities in sexual health policy and practice and offers the interim findings of Professor Kath Albury’s Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship (FT210100085) project of the same name.