Dispatches

What I'm posting, thinking and testing.

Short-form notes on digital health, health data and AI. Most start life on LinkedIn — this is the archive.

15 June 2026 · Digital Health · Building · Interoperability

Digital Health Ninja: the tool directory I always wished existed

For years I wanted one page with the actual tools digital health and health data people use — FHIR servers, terminology services, EHDS tooling, app directories. So I vibe-coded it. Seventeen tools to start, sharpened weekly, and deliberately a little fun.

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13 June 2026 · EHDS · Public Health · Career

Bringing EHDS work to where it meets people

After years of European and national level work on the European Health Data Space, I am moving to digital health and digital public health at Primary HealthCare Malta. EHDS is only as real as the systems citizens and professionals actually touch — and implementation is where equity is won or lost.

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06 June 2026 · openEHR · Clinical Informatics

Accepted into the openEHR fellowship 2026–2027

Delighted to join the openEHR fellowship programme, deepening my clinical informatics knowledge of this clinical information model alongside my full-time work. Possibly the first Maltese fellow.

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26 May 2026 · Health Policy · Digital Health

Joining the global think-tank on steatotic liver disease

An honour to join this high-level group. It is time our policies truly ensure no one is left behind in their health journey — and digital health and health data interventions have a real opportunity to make a dent in this fight.

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30 September 2025 · EU Health · Fellowship · EHDS

Completing the first EU Health Union Fellowship cohort

The class of HUF25 has finished the first cohort of the EU Health and Food Safety Health Union Fellowship. Onwards with a renewed mission to build bridges and networks for a healthier Europe.

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17 September 2025 · AI · Public Health · Speaking

Data cultures and the potential of AI in public health

Speaking at the Public Health Association of Australia conference on the role of data cultures in harnessing AI in public health. The key is doubling down on knowledge management and curation in the age of AI.

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12 March 2025 · Publication · Education · Digital Public Health

Reflecting digital transformations in public health curricula

Our commentary in Public Health Reviews argues for integrating digital competencies into public health education to meet the demands of a digital era — part of the ASPHER Digital Public Health Taskforce body of work.

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21 December 2024 · AI · Publication · Conferences

The AI plenary, written up in Eurohealth

Our Eurohealth article on the AI plenary at the European Public Health Conference, including how we built the AI panellist and near real-time AI-enabled transcription into the conference setup.

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27 August 2024 · AI · Regulation · Research

Mapping the regulatory landscape for AI in health in the EU

Our paper in npj Digital Medicine synthesises 141 binding policies applicable to AI in healthcare across the EU and ten European countries, and makes the case for robust governance of AI in health and population health.

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09 November 2023 · Public Health · Conferences

Eight years at the European Public Health Conference

The kind of photo worth going to conferences for. Eight years attending the EUPHA European Public Health Conference — an incredible and unique experience every time.

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21 October 2023 · EHDS · Speaking · Interoperability

9-4-2 CARE for the EHDS

My message to ESMO23 delegates: nine chapters, four audiences, two main projects — MyHealth@EU and HealthData@EU. And CARE: collect data with standards, advance cross-national collaboration, realise data discovery, ease data management.

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29 September 2023 · AI · Keynote · Speaking

Opening keynote at the Global Health Forum, Cascais

Delivering the opening keynote on artificial intelligence beyond limits, and a reminder that solidarity means working on an AI and data commons.

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27 September 2023 · AI · Health Workforce · Speaking

Moderating the health workforce in the age of AI at Gastein

The European Health Forum Gastein delivers punchy debate open to differing views. Energising to moderate the morning session on the health workforce in the age of AI — we need more of this.

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