Legal and Permit Services

The Legal and Permit Services Unit 

  • is responsible for legal support for the institute
  • is responsible for the internal data permit process and support as well as data decisions related to the use of THL’s registers in clinical trials
  • supports the activities of the institute’s working group on research ethics 
  • is responsible for the statutory forensic psychiatry work assigned to THL.

Unit teams

  • Forensic Psychiatry
  • Legal and Permit Services

Contact details

Kati Hepokorpi
Head of Unit
tel. +358 29 524 7278
E-mail: [email protected]

Postal address
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Legal and Permit Services Unit
P.O. Box 30
FI-00271 Helsinki, Finland