UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Union Health Minister Shri J P Nadda Addresses Side Event on “Artificial Intelligence in Health: Laws, Ethical Oversight, Research and Equity” at the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva

Q1. With reference to the Strategy for AI in Healthcare for India (SAHI), consider the following statements:

  1. SAHI was launched in February 2026 at the India AI Impact Summit held at Bharat Mandapam.
  2. India is the first country in the WHO South-East Asia Region to launch a comprehensive national strategy for AI in healthcare.
  3. SAHI was launched together with BODH, a benchmarking platform developed by IIT Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority.
  4. SAHI was unveiled by the Prime Minister of India during the 79th World Health Assembly at Geneva.
  • A. 1, 2 and 3 only
  • B. 2, 3 and 4 only
  • C. 1 and 4 only
  • D. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Q2. Which of the following is/are NOT among the four pillars on which the Strategy for AI in Healthcare for India (SAHI) rests?

  1. Governance and ethical oversight
  2. Mandatory export controls on indigenous health-AI models
  3. Workforce readiness and digital literacy
  4. State monopoly over commercialisation of health-AI products
  • A. 1 and 3 only
  • B. 2 and 4 only
  • C. 1, 2 and 3 only
  • D. 2, 3 and 4 only

Q3. Which one of the following organs of the World Health Organization is primarily entrusted with giving effect to the decisions and policies of the World Health Assembly between its annual sessions?

  • A. WHO Secretariat headed by the Director-General
  • B. WHO Executive Board
  • C. Regional Committee for South-East Asia
  • D. Programme, Budget and Administration Committee

Q4. The 79th World Health Assembly, held at Geneva in May 2026, was presided over by a delegate from which one of the following countries?

  • A. Switzerland
  • B. India
  • C. Dominican Republic
  • D. Indonesia

Q5. With reference to the 79th World Health Assembly (WHA-79) held in May 2026, consider the following countries that were represented in its elected leadership (President and Vice-Presidents):

  1. Mali
  2. Nepal
  3. Bangladesh
  4. Poland
  • A. 1 and 2 only
  • B. 2, 3 and 4
  • C. 1, 2 and 4
  • D. 3 and 4 only

Q6. At the opening of the 79th World Health Assembly (May 2026) in Geneva, how many Vice-Presidents of the Assembly were elected alongside the President Dr Víctor Elías Atallah Lajam?

  • A. Three
  • B. Five
  • C. Six
  • D. Seven

Q7. The BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI) initiative was launched in February 2026 at the India AI Impact Summit held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Over how many days was this summit conducted?

  • A. 3
  • B. 4
  • C. 5
  • D. 7

Q8. With reference to the BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI) initiative launched in February 2026, consider the following statements:

  1. It has been developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority.
  2. It is a privacy-preserving benchmarking platform for evaluating health AI models.
  3. It was launched at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
  4. It mandates that participating AI developers centrally share their underlying training datasets with the platform.
  • A. 1 and 3 only
  • B. 2 only
  • C. 4 only
  • D. 2, 3 and 4 only

Q9. Which body is the supreme governing organ of the World Health Organization (WHO) within the South-East Asia Region, responsible for formulating policies and providing oversight to regional health programmes?

  • A. Regional Committee for South-East Asia
  • B. WHO Executive Board
  • C. World Health Assembly
  • D. Standing Committee of the Regional Office

Q10. Who is the current WHO Regional Director for the South-East Asia Region, leading the New Delhi-based Regional Office?

  • A. Ms Saima Wazed
  • B. Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh
  • C. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  • D. Dr Catharina Boehme

Q11. In the context of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, what does the abbreviation 'ABHA' stand for?

  • A. Ayushman Bharat Health Account
  • B. Ayushman Bharat Hospital Authority
  • C. Ayushman Bharat Healthcare Alliance
  • D. Ayushman Bharat Health Assurance

Q12. Which one of the following is the nodal implementing agency of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)?

  • A. National Health Authority
  • B. Indian Council of Medical Research
  • C. National Medical Commission
  • D. Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation

Q13. Which one of the following international organisations released, in January 2024, the guidance document titled 'Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health: guidance on large multi-modal models'?

  • A. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • B. International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
  • C. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • D. World Health Organization (WHO)

Q14. In the context of the WHO's 2024 ethics and governance guidance, the term 'Large Multi-modal Model (LMM)' is best defined as:

  • A. A large-scale statistical model that combines multiple regression techniques on pooled health datasets to produce population-level health forecasts
  • B. A generative AI model that can accept one or more types of data inputs (such as text, images and video) and generate diverse outputs that are not restricted to the type of data that was input
  • C. A federated learning model trained simultaneously across multiple hospital networks without centralising patient data, primarily used for predictive diagnostics
  • D. A large language model fine-tuned exclusively on biomedical text corpora to generate clinical text outputs in response to text-only prompts

Q15. With reference to NITI Aayog's National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (#AIForAll, 2018), which of the following is/are NOT identified as a priority/focus sector for AI deployment?

  1. Healthcare
  2. Agriculture
  3. Defence and Internal Security
  4. Smart Mobility and Transportation
  • A. 1 and 3 only
  • B. 2 and 4 only
  • C. 3 only
  • D. 1, 2 and 4 only

Q16. The IndiaAI Mission, which operationalises the national vision articulated in the #AIForAll strategy, is implemented as an Independent Business Division under which one of the following bodies?

  • A. NITI Aayog
  • B. Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • C. Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology
  • D. Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India