Miia Jansson
PhD
Professor
Health sciences
Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology
Faculty of Medicine
Miia Jansson is a Professor at the University of Oulu and the Head of the DigiImpact Research Group at the Medical Research Center (MRC), a joint organization of the Wellbeing Services County of North Ostrobothnia (Pohde) and the University of Oulu. She also holds an Adjunct Professorship at RMIT University, Australia. Since 2026, she has served as the Spearhead Program Leader for Data Solutions in Preventive Healthcare within the Oulu Innovation Alliance.
She has extensive experience in academic leadership and doctoral supervision and has led and contributed to competitively funded research projects supported by Horizon Europe, the European Institute of Innovation & Technology, the Research Council of Finland, Business Finland, and the European Regional Development Fund.
Her research focuses on digitalization and value‑based healthcare and is conducted in close collaboration with research organizations, wellbeing services counties, and industry partners at regional, national, and international levels. In addition, she has contributed to the development of research infrastructures, clinical practice guidelines, and policy briefs.
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- Digital health
- Clinical investigation
- Impact evaluation
- Acute and critical care
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Northern Finland Digital Wellbeing Services (NorthDIGI): The effectiveness, accessibility and continuity of digital services in social and health care

Tech2Heal

Oulu Medical Data Infrastructure
Icory Solution- Intelligent Solution for Surgery Care
Novel Raman-based reagent-free diagnostics for arthritic diseases
