Dr. Julius Juodakis lectures on the The Lithuanian Health Data Re-use Pathways

UIPS International Seminar Programme

Dr. Lukius Juodakis, Lithuanian State Medicines Agency and Vilnius University 
Title: “Better links, better evidence: The Lithuanian Health Data Re-use Pathways” 

Wednesday 18 March 2026 from 10.00-11.00, David de Wied Building M2.01
Hosted by prof.dr. Helga Gardarsdottir, h.gardarsdottir@uu.nl  

Short Bio:

Dr. Julius Juodakis is the Health Data Lead at the State Date Agency of Lithuania. He has a PhD in Statistics and more than 10 years of experience as a researcher, having worked in various areas of biology and medicine across 5 different countries. For the last few years, he has been leading the health data reuse process in Lithuania; his goal is to make Lithuania a global leader in digital medicine, where data is available quickly and equally to researchers, hospitals and private innovators.

Abstract: 

Over the last 4 years, Lithuania has built a national data lake by fully linking state registries across domains, from population-scale clinical data to rich patient-level socio-economic features. Today, more than 13,000 datasets are analysed by thousands of users across the country.

In this talk, we will examine the original motivations and philosophy of national data lakes, as well as how this paradigm is evolving in practice. We will discuss:

- What is public data?

- How to make data findable?

- How to make data interpretable?

- Is there a future for clinical registries?

Finally, we will showcase how health data is collected in Lithuania and the opportunities for international research that it brings.