Meet our Speakers

Making EHDS Real

Scaling Genomics & Imaging for Trusted Secondary Use

24–25 September 2026 | Bilbao, Spain


Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Evidence-based Medicine at the University of Crete; Senior Researcher and Teaching Fellow at Maastricht University; and President of the European Public Health Association's (EUPHA) Global Health section

Deputy Minister for Health and Digital Transformation, Basque Government (Eusko Jaurlaritza).

Ikerbasque Research Fellow and Group Coordinator, Computational Neuroimaging, IIS Biobizkaia Health Research Institute

Executive Director of Digital Strategy, DHCW - Digital Health and Care Wales

Secretary General for Digital Health, Information and Innovation of Spain's National Health System (SNS) at the Ministry of Health

Scientific Director of Health Data Research Network Canada

Paulo Nunes de Abreu, PhD, CPF, known internationally as Paul Nunesdea, is the founder and "Firestarter" of the Health Data Forum, an international platform that convenes healthcare leaders, policymakers, and innovators to advance responsible, data-driven healthcare. As a Certified Professional Facilitator, he designs and leads global hybrid...

Associate Director – Healthcare Data Analytics at NICE, UK

Professor of Bioinformatics, King's College London
Member, WHO Technical Advisory Group on Genomics (TAG-G)

President of the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD)

Head of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance, AEMPS - Spanish Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices

Deputy Minister for Health and Digital Transformation, Basque Government (Eusko Jaurlaritza).

Associate Professor at ISCTE and Director of BRU_DHI – Digital Health International

Executive Board Member at SPMS – Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal

Scientific Director of the OneHealth DataSpace and Big Data Team Leader at CESGA, the Galicia Supercomputing Center,

Head of ELIXIR Project Management Office & European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) Deployment Lead

Data and AI leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Leire Sarasua Ronda is the Data & AI Manager at LKS Next. Her career has focused on data, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence, evolving from data analytics and predictive models to project management and digital transformation programs.

Chief of Cabinet, General Secretariat for Digital Health, Information and Innovation of the Spanish National Health System — Spanish Ministry of Health

Paulo Nunes de Abreu, PhD, CPF, known internationally as Paul Nunesdea, is the founder and "Firestarter" of the Health Data Forum, an international platform that convenes healthcare leaders, policymakers, and innovators to advance responsible, data-driven healthcare. As a Certified Professional Facilitator, he designs and leads global hybrid...

Operations Department Coordinator, SPMS — Shared Services of the Portuguese Ministry of Health

Chief Data Officer, Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW), NHS Wales

Senior Adviser at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland (STM)

Professor of Global Health Research at the University of Oxford and Director of The Global Health Network