People and organization

UHealth is a joint platform of seven faculties:

• Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Educational Sciences
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

UHealth funds six Principal Investigator positions as part of its profile-building actions to strengthen adacemic leadership in the following areas of multidisciplinary research:

• Medical sociology (Faculty of Medicine)
• Healthcare operations management  (Faculty of Medicine)
• Social and health services (Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Social and health research and management (Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Early childhood education (Faculty of Educational Sciences)
• Nutrition (Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry)

The Principal Investigators have started their work at UH in 2021-22. Click the links below to find more information about our UHealth professors.

The management of UHealth is responsible for everyday operations and reporting. The faculties of social sciences and medicine have a shared responsibility over the management of the platform.

The executive group is responsible for setting annual action plans, developing the UHealth strategy and monitoring the development of UHealth activities. As of 1 November 2022, the members of the executive group are:

Kerstin Carsslon, CEO, HUS Pharmacy
Kristiina Junttila, Director, HUS Nursing Research Center
Pirjo Laitinen-Parkkonen, Director of Research, Development and Innovation, Wellbeing Services County of Keski-Uusimaa