Elina Drakvik

Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, Senior Lead

Speaker Bio

Elina Drakvik is the Vice-Coordinator of TEHDAS2 Joint Action, and she works as a Senior Lead in Sitra’s International and Future Wellbeing Solutions Programmes. She is responsible for promoting secondary use of health data and collaborating with international health ecosystems and organisations. Elina has expertise in the establishment of the European Health Data Space for secondary use, and she has over 10 years of experience in European collaborations in the field of health research. She has worked as a Project Manager and Work Package Leader in various EU-funded research projects in Finland and Sweden, and she has gained experience in research funding and international cooperation during her time at the Research Council of Finland. She has been a board member of several boards and has also an affiliation with the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Helsinki.