Eero Lahtinen

Dr Eero Lahtinen, MD, is a specialist in family medicine and a psychotherapist. He has a PhD in Public Health, where his main interest area is health promotion and health policy. Before becoming a civil servant at the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in 2008, Dr Lahtinen had worked as a physician in a range of areas, in particular primary health care, and as a medical researcher. At the Ministry, Dr Lahtinen’s responsibilities have included, among other things, health promotion policy, intersectoral action for health and international affairs. He was the coordinator for Finland’s EU Presidency initiatives 'Putting Mental Health on the EU agenda' (1999) and 'Health in All Policies' (2006). In 2007-2009 Dr Lahtinen worked as a Senior Policy Officer in WHO European Regional Office. He is now Counsellor for health at the Permanent Mission of Finland to the UN in Geneva, where he worked also in 2009-2014.