Women's health data ambassadors

A formally constituted pan-Nordic ambassador programme on EHDS, HL7 Europe, and SNOMED CT data standards, with a women’s health focus, would build a recognisable talent layer of people sitting at the intersection of biomedical informatics and women’s health domain knowledge, embedded in the standards bodies where data dictionaries and interoperability requirements are decided. Without that talent layer, women’s health variables enter European data architectures only as occasional advocacy from individual researchers, and the EHDS implementing acts window of 2026 to 2027 closes without coordinated Nordic input.

The nucleus of expertise already exists, in VALO2, NeIC, and the myHealth@ myHands consortium, with HL7 Europe and CDISC ambassadors as international structural references. A coordinated programme on the order of ten to fifteen ambassador positions, deployed over the five-year EHDS implementation window, would translate scattered individual expertise into a recognisable pan-Nordic talent layer that European standards bodies engage with directly, and connect the Nordic women’s health data dictionary (R-D-1) to Brussels through named people rather than memos. Nordic Innovation, NordForsk, and the five national digital health authorities are the natural conveners of the call.