Sirje Vaittinen
Name: Sirje Vaittinen
Job title: Project Coordinator
Tel: +358 2952 47033
E-mail: [email protected]
Expertise
- bilateral and EU project collaboration with Northwest Russia and Eastern European countries
- Barents Region co-operation
- Nordic Council of Ministers' (NCM) Cooperation with Russia on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programme
- cross-cultural communication
- linguistic support (interpretation and translation)
Primary duties
- project administration and management
- public relations
Education
- 1997 Bachelor of Arts (Russian language and literature), University of Helsinki
- 2013 Studies in Health and Disease in Developing Countries, University of Helsinki
Work experience
- 2016 onwards, technical assistant of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland regarding the Joint Working Group on Health and Related Social Issues (JWGHS)
- 2013 onwards, coordinator of NCM projects with Russia, THL
- 2009 – 2013 project coordinator in non-communicable diseases and injuries control project in Mongolia, THL
- 2000 – 2012 project assistant and coordinator of several Finnish-Russian and EU projects in the field of infectious diseases, drug work, child protection and public health training, THL (STAKES)
Language skills
- Finnish (native)
- Estonian (excellent)
- Russian (excellent)
- English (good)
- Polish (good)
