Special Envoy for Health & Well-being of Finland 🇫🇮at the Ministry for Social Affairs and Health. Over 20 years experience at highest civil servant administrative positions both from government (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Ministry for Foreign Affairs), and public sector (Municipalities + Special Health care district).
Actively participating also in Global Health: have chaired and facilitated global multisectoral, multipartner Health Security collaboration since 2015 facilitating capacity building at country level. Vice chair (2 years) and member (1 y) of @WHO Executive Board 2018-2021 focusing on good governance + strong and effective WHO. Excecutive President for WHO/Europe Regional Committee (RC71) 2021-2022. Member of @womeninGH (Women in Global Health) advocating for #GenderEquity in Health. Member of @GlobalPulse Finland’s health sector advisory board. Member of Board of Directors, @HIMSS and Member of the Inaugural Board of @I-DAIR
Sharing Finnish knowhow and experiences on legislative framework and enabling regulation on secondary use of social and health data for innovation policies, R&D&I and implementation of new technology digital and AI solutions as well as personalized medicine.
Skilled in Health Care and Social Affairs management, Health and social service management, Health Security, Universal Health Coverige, Integrated care, Communicable & Noncommunicable diseases, Government, Management, Health Technology & innovation, Entrepreneurship, Quality Management, Interpersonal Skills, Non-profit + for profit (start up) Boards. Strong, innovative, target oriented administrative professional graduated MD + PhD + eMBA from University of Tampere, specialization for Public Health Management and Honorary Doctor from University of Helsinki Faculty of Medicine. Also studied humanities and cultural sciences in University of Jyväskylä
