“Cross-border partnerships are essential to creating value from health data”

Voices from the Data2Value Executive Dialogue: Felicitas Muth, Consultant, WHO Regional Office Europe.

Felicitas Muth, Consultant at the WHO Regional Office Europe, is clear about what it takes to turn Europe’s health data into insights that serve populations at scale – and where the work still needs to happen.

“Foster partnerships across borders to leverage data and create value.”

The barrier to cross-border data value is not primarily a technical one. Data that could drive better decisions across the region too often remains within the systems that generated it – held back by the absence of sustained collaborative relationships across institutions and borders.

Partnerships as infrastructure

“Creating value from data requires strong partnerships,” said Muth. Europe has the data. What it needs is the commitment to build the collaborative architecture that allows it to work beyond the boundaries of any single country or organisation.

A European asset

For Muth, the ambition of a health data society cannot be achieved by any single system working alone. It requires cross-border collaboration that transforms health data from a national resource into a shared European one.

Felicitas Muth is a Consultant at the WHO Regional Office Europe and a participant in the Data2Value Executive Dialogue, Copenhagen, May 18, 2026