Håkon Haaheim is a Medical Microbiologist and life science specialist trained in epidemiology and logistics. He also holds a management master degree from the Norwegian Business School. His studies include education given at the University of Oslo, University of Tromsø, the Norwegian Business School, University of Copenhagen, University of Gothenburg, University of California – Berkeley, and Stanford University.

Haaheim is responsible for emergency medical data at the Norwegian Directorate of Health and is leading an international program on collecting and publishing data from the emergency medical services.

He has published several international research papers in collaboration with groups from USA, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, UK, France, and Nepal within areas of diagnostics, hospital logistics and automation.