people

Kirsi Suomalainen

Specialist, Communications and Public Affairs

Who?

Kirsi Suomalainen is responsible for the communication of the Health through data project and the post-communication of the Health data 2030 project (ended in 2023) and IHAN project (ended in 2021) in fair data economy.

What?

Kirsi is a long-standing employee at Sitra and earlier she was responsible for communications of the Digital Health HUB and the project of Tools for the social welfare and healthcare services. She has experience in several topics, such as services for children, young people and the elderly, work well-being and management, knowledge management, service channel and electronic services. Kirsi has also contributed to communications in the Environment, Municipal and Public sector management programmes.

Communications has been Kirsi’s principal task for 20 years and the topics have varied from icebreakers, machine translation and enterprise financing to the social welfare and healthcare reform, environment, digital services, well-being and gene technology.

What else?

In her free time, Kirsi is a consumer of guided exercise. She goes to see theatre, dance and music performances.