# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pekka-puska
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:27:49.017Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pekka-puska"
name: "Pekka Puska"
slug: "pekka-puska"
description: "Pekka Puska is a Finnish physician, docent and politician. Puska held the position of Director General of the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland in 2009–2013. THL was formed following the merging of National Public Health Institute of Finland (KTL), and the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES). Puska headed KTL from 2003 to 2009. Puska is a Member of Parliament (Eduskunta) since 2017 and was previously a Member of Parliament in 1987–1991. Puska is a Docent for University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland."
tagline: "Finnish physician and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pekka_Puska.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1945-12-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.75
  momentum:             8.571428571428571
  historical:           6.338805333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/PekkaPuska1"
    handle:    "PekkaPuska1"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4087525/"
    handle:    "nm4087525"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://pekkapuska.fi/"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Пекка Пуска"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "پيكا پوسكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Puska"
    title: "Pekka Puska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Puska"
    title: "Pekka Puska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Puska"
    title: "Pekka Puska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Puska"
    title: "Pekka Puska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Puska"
    title: "Pekka Puska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5407283"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump