Laura Maaß is a PhD candidate at the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen (LSC), Germany, and a member of the steering committee of the European Public Health Association’s Digital Health section. She is a public health practitioner by training. Since 2020, her research focuses on developing an index to measure the maturity of digital public health systems. She combines legal, cultural, social, medical, telecommunication, data security and public health perspectives to develop a holistic tool that will allow benchmarking and policy learning between countries.