Ilmo Keskimäki
Chair of the 18th European Public Health Conference
Ilmo Keskimäki (MD, PhD) is Research Professor at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and Professor of Health Services Research at the Tampere University, Finland. He has specialised in Public Health Medicine. His research has focused on health systems and policy analysis and developing research methods for the use of register based longitudinal data in health services research. He has particular interest in research on equity in health care and impacts of reforming services on health system performance. He has worked in research and administrative positions in national research institutes in Finland and advised the government on issues related to health systems and policy development and research. He has formerly served as a president for the European Public Health Association and the Society for Social Medicine in Finland.