Outi Karvonen
Name: Outi Karvonen
Year of birth: 1962
Job title: Development Manager
Tel: +358 29 524 7046
E-mail: [email protected]
Expertise
- Collaboration in preparedness and response to serious cross-border threats to health in the EU
- Planning, implementation and evaluation of international projects
- Collaboration with Northwest Russia
Primary duties
- International project management (Joint action within EU Health Programme)
Education
- 1991, Master of Arts, Russian Language and Literature, University of Helsinki
Work experience
- Project Manager of EU Joint action on HIV and co-infection prevention and harm reduction (HA-REACT) 2015 - 2019
- Project Manager of the multilateral project financed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland "Controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Barents and Northern Dimension Regions (Phase III); Technical assistance and coordination"
- International Technical Advisor of the NDPHS Expert Group on HIV/AIDS and Associated Infections 2006 - 2015
- Coordinator of the Barents HIV/AIDS Programme 2006 - 2015
- Project manager of the Finnish-Russian project "Development of low threshold services in the Murmansk Region" (2006 - 2010)
- Project manager of several Finnish-Russian projects in the field of infectious diseases, school health education and public health training since 2000
- Working at the organization (THL and STAKES) since 1997
Language skills
- Finnish (native)
- Swedish (good)
- English (excellent)
- Russian (excellent)
- German (satisfactory)
- Latin (satisfactory)
