We are pleased to invite you to the sixth session of the WHO-SEARO Webinar Series on Responsible AI in Healthcare, organized in collaboration with the Koita Centre for Digital Health, Ashoka University.
The upcoming session, titled “Agentic Workflows and Human Oversight,” will examine a rapidly emerging frontier in healthcare AI: the growing shift from assistive AI systems toward increasingly autonomous and agentic workflows. As AI systems begin to coordinate tasks, retrieve information, reason across complex inputs, and support operational or clinical decision-making with greater independence, important questions arise around accountability, escalation pathways, reliability, and the evolving role of human oversight.
The discussion will explore what meaningful oversight looks like when AI systems are no longer functioning simply as passive tools, but as active participants within healthcare workflows. Particular attention will be given to how healthcare institutions can maintain transparency, human judgment, and operational safety while integrating increasingly capable AI systems into real-world settings.
Rather than approaching oversight as a narrow compliance exercise, the session will examine how governance, workflow design, monitoring mechanisms, and institutional safeguards must evolve alongside advances in AI autonomy. The conversation will also reflect on the realities of deploying such systems across diverse and resource-constrained healthcare environments in the South-East Asia region, where infrastructural variability, workforce pressures, and contextual differences significantly shape implementation.
Objectives
- Examine the growing role of agentic AI systems and autonomous workflows within healthcare environments.
- Explore how human oversight, accountability, and escalation mechanisms need to evolve as AI systems become more operationally embedded.
- Discuss practical governance, safety, and workflow considerations for deploying increasingly autonomous AI systems responsibly in healthcare.
Expected Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Develop a clearer understanding of the opportunities and risks associated with agentic AI workflows in healthcare.
- Identify key technical, operational, and governance considerations for maintaining meaningful human oversight.
- Recognize the importance of contextual adaptation, continuous monitoring, and institutional safeguards in the responsible deployment of increasingly autonomous AI systems.
Topic
Agentic Workflows and Human Oversight
Date &Time: Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 3:00–4:00 PM IST
Agenda
For your reference, the briefing note and agenda are attached. Please review it to familiarise yourself with the webinar topics.
Webinar 7: Agentic Workflows and Human Oversight
Time | Item | Speaker / Moderator |
03:00PM-03:05PM | Opening remarks and session overview | Dr Anurag Agrawal, Dean, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Head, KCDH, Ashoka University |
03:05PM-03:25PM | Keynote: Designing Trustworthy Agentic Workflows for Clinical environments | Professor Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng, Associate Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Biomedical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore |
03:25PM-03:50PM | Panel Discussion: AI Agents in clinical Workflows: Safety, Escalation, and Human Control | Dr Anurag Agrawal (Moderator) Prof. Nirav Bhatt, Associate Professor, Department of Data Science and AI, Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI, IIT Madras Prof Swapnil Mishra, Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore Dr Krithika Rangarajan, Associate Professor, AIIMS Delhi |
03:50PM-04:00PM | Live Q &A and closing | Dr Anurag Agrawal |
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