De Silva, UdaniFonseka, MitharaKotinkaduwa, Sanduni2025-06-032025-06-032025-04-29https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000843https://hdl.handle.net/10012/21812© 2025 De Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Since the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the growing interest in and demand for digital health heightened across public health systems and research across the world.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Sri LankaCOVID 19socioeconomic aspects of healthlow and middle income countrieseconomic crisesemploymentHIV vaccinespublic and occupational healthArticle