Cátia Sousa Pinto, MD, MPH
Head for Global Digital Health & Public Health Specialist (Portugal)

Dr. Cátia Sousa Pinto is a medical doctor and public health specialist with extensive expertise in digital health transformation, public health surveillance, and international collaboration. She currently serves as Head of the Global Digital Health and International Affairs Unit at SPMS, EPE, where she coordinates Portugal’s participation in 17 EU-funded digital health projects and leads the implementation of MyHealth@EU services.

Previously, Dr. Sousa Pinto coordinated the modernization of Portugal’s national health surveillance systems as Head of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Division at the Directorate-General of Health (2012–2018). She has been a national representative for Portugal to the ECDC, WHO, and European Commission, contributing to critical discussions on infectious diseases, mortality data systems, and health data standards.

An advocate for data-driven innovation, Dr. Sousa Pinto has led strategic initiatives in health information ecosystems and secondary data use within Portugal’s National Health Service. She is also the Deputy Vice-Chair for the Global Digital Health Partnership (2024–2025) and a national nominated expert on the European Health Data Space Regulation for the EU Council.

Dr. Sousa Pinto holds degrees from the University of Lisbon and the National School of Public Health and has pursued advanced studies at Harvard University, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and the University of Edinburgh.