Erkki Vartiainen

Erkki Vartiainen, MD, Ph.D. has been Professor (emeritus) and Assistant Director General in National Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland. The main responsibility of his department has been non-communicable disease prevention. His main research interest has been cardiovascular disease prevention by risk factors and lifestyle changes. He has over 600 publications in international and national scientific journals. He has been working as a co-principal investigator in the North Karelia Project. Consult for World Bank, WHO and EU in chronic diseases prevention in several developed and developing countries. He was Visiting Scientist at CDC in the US in 1989-90, Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh in 2000-2001, he had Adjunct Academic Status as a Professor 2011-2013 and Honorary Doctor of Science in Flinders University, Australia. He was a member of executive board in Finnish Diabetes Association, chairperson of the central council in Asthma and Allergy Federation and chairperson of the Finnish Association for Substance Abuse Prevention, and chairperson of National Nutrition Council in Finland. He was director of WHO Collaborative Centre on NCD prevention in Finland.

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