From Wales to Bilbao

From Wales to Bilbao

Bilbao is part of the Health Data Forum's ongoing journey.

Our 2025 dialogue in Wales helped establish a shared foundation around trust, equity and transparency in the use of health data.

The Wales Joint Charter framed trust not as a transaction, but as an ongoing relationship, and positioned equity and transparency as foundations for responsible innovation.

Bilbao now takes the next step.

The challenge is no longer simply to define what trustworthy health data ecosystems should look like. It is to understand what is required to make them work in practice.

Across the two days, we hope to move from principles to implementation and identify practical priorities around EHDS, genomics, health systems, infrastructure and responsible AI.

Our ambition is that Bilbao does not end with a collection of presentations, but with a clearer shared understanding of what needs to happen next — and what each of us can help make possible.

Join the Road to Bilbao

In the weeks leading up to the Summit, we are documenting the ideas, perspectives and implementation questions shaping the event through our Road to Bilbao blog.

Visit the Road to Bilbao Blog

The blog is not simply event promotion. It is part of the intellectual journey towards Bilbao.

Recent contributions have explored the transition from policy to implementation, the Basque experience, genomics, health data infrastructures, responsible AI and the practical conditions required to make EHDS work in the real world.

We welcome contributions from our speakers

We would be delighted to feature your perspective on the Road to Bilbao.

Your contribution does not need to be a formal academic article. It could be:

• A short reflection
• A practical case example
• A provocative question
• A short opinion piece
• A perspective connected to your Summit intervention

The goal is simple: to begin the conversation before we arrive in Bilbao.

Propose a Road to Bilbao Contribution: p.nunesdea@healthdataforum.org