Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki

Dr. Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki is currently Senior External Ad-viser of International Affairs at the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. She served as the Chief Medical Officer and Director General of Strategic Affairs in 2018-21 and as the Director of the Health Care Group since 2010. In 2017-2025 she chaired the Steering Committee of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a WHO hosted partnership supporting evidence-informed health policy mak-ing (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies). Previously she was employed as the Senior Medical Adviser of the Finnish Association of Local and Regional Authorities in 2004-2009, Chief of Emergency and Acute Care of the Hel-sinki University Hospital in 2000-2004 and as a specialist and adjunct professor (docent) of internal medicine in the Univer-sity of Turku, Finland. Her academic work has been in cardio-vascular medicine, with over 100 publications. She received her MD degree from the University of Helsinki in 1979. Currently she also chairs the board of the Finnish Heart Asso-ciation (Sydänliitto ry; a public health and patient NGO) and is the Vice-Chair of the Finnish Society of Health Care Assess-ment (STAS ry). In 2022-2025 she chaired the board of FVR, Finnish Vaccine Research Ltd.