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Awards for outstanding
cultural achievements

Grand prize of EUR 35,000

For researching ill-being and defending well-being

Professor Heikki Hiilamo

H eikki Hiilamo (b. 1964) has achieved doctorates alcohol and tobacco policy. He has been a visiting researcher
in both social policy and public health science. He at universities including Berkeley in California, and a visiting
works as Professor of Social Policy at the University professor at the University of Oslo.
of Helsinki and Research Professor at the Finnish Institute for
Health and Welfare. He has also been employed as a Research Active participation in social discourse as a columnist, non-
Professor at the Social Insurance Institution of Finland and fiction author and expert forms an essential aspect of Heikki
Director of Welfare Work at the National Church Council. Hiilamo’s profile. He is one of Finland’s leading social policy
experts, as a testament to which he received the State Award
Heikki Hiilamo’s research encompasses many of the for Information Publication in 2016. Hiilamo has also been a
contemporary challenges of the Nordic welfare state. The journalist for Ydin magazine and the Finnish Broadcasting
topics of his research have included poverty, indebtedness, Corporation (YLE).
family policy, diaconal work of the Evangelical Lutheran
church in Finland, social and health care services, and

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