The report was authored by Eric Sutherland and Katarina Vujovic of the Health Division in the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS).
The authors would like to thank Mónica García Gómez (Minister of Health, Spain), Javier Padilla Bernáldez (Secretary of State for Health, Spain), Lucía Escapa Castro (Chief of Staff, General Secretariat for Digital Health), Silvia Pérez Fernández (Senior Analyst, General Secretariat for Digital Health), and the team at the Spanish Ministry of Health for their leadership and co‑operation in designing and operating the Conference for the Responsible Scale of AI in Health, held in Madrid, Spain on 28‑29 May 2026. The authors would like to thank OECD Stefano Scarpetta (Chief Economist and Head of the Economics Department), Mark Pearson (Acting Director, Employment Labour and Social Services), Chris Mullin (Chair, Health Committee) and Francesca Colombo (Head of Health Division) for their support before, during, and after the conference to help ensure the conference was grounded in having impact. The authors would also like to extend their gratitude to Teba Criado Fiuza for her support in helping to coordinate the conference, and to Lucy Hulett for her valuable guidance in preparing the report for publication.
The authors would also like to thank Business at the OECD for their support in hosting a reception on 27 May 2026 that established the tone for successful collaboration. Thanks are also extended to the experts who chose to spend their valuable time at the Conference and their willingness to openly share their thoughts and effectively collaborate before, during, and after the Conference to support development of this report. Special thanks to Jennifer Dixon (CEO, Health Foundation), Brian Anderson (CEO, Coalition for HealthAI), and Ricardo Baptista Leite (CEO, HealthAI – the Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health) for their stimulating keynote addresses that drove discussions. Finally, the authors would also like to extent a warm thank you to all the facilitators, panellists, and engaged partners who enabled discussion to find the core insights in this report: Aferdita Bytyqi, Afua van Hassteren, Ariel Dora Stern, Bekure Tamirat, Belen Fraile Ortiz, Brenton Hill, David Lowe, David Ortiz Novillo, Dipak Kalra, Eva Wiecken, Ezra Selmani, Giovanni Briganti, Ian Wong, Ilona Kickbusch, Joe Lennerz, Leah Stephenson, Lucy Orr-Ewing, Lee Hibbard, Mathilde Forslund, Paul Campbell, Ramin Parsa-Parsi, Saira Ghafur, Timo Minssen, Torben Rene Uhrenholt, Valentina Strammiello and Yiannos Tolias.