The Head of the Institute is Pekka Martikainen. For collaborations and research inquiries, please feel free to contact us.
Current research interests include changes and causes of socioeconomic differences in cause-specific mortality, and various issues relating to ageing populations. He is also working on the health effects of marital status and living arrangements, as well as the competing effects of characteristics of areas and characteristics of individuals on mortality, and has been involved in cross-national comparisons of health inequalities.
Research topics:
Risk factors of obesity and metabolic diseases
Physical and mental development of the child and its later health consequences
Gene-environment interactions
Socio-economic and global health inequalities
The CODATwins project
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Socioeconomic inequalities in health and mortality
COVID-19
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Inequalities in mental health
Housing conditions and health
Intergenerational transmission of wealth and inequalities
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Family formation in flux
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Sociodemographic and health related determinants of electoral participation
Social stratification and mobility
ERC Advanced Grant on social inequalities in population health: integrating evidence from longitudinal, family-based and genetically informed data
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Alcohol policies shaping population health and various other interests
Life course and economic implications of demographic change (LIFECON)
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Mortality, ageing, their links with family and intergenerational relations, and their inequalities
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Family Formation in Flux
Romantic relationship histories
High performance computing
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Family Formation in Flux
Female same-sex couples and their childbearing and living conditions
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Family formation in flux
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Cognitive impairment, disability, cardiovascular disease and their sociodemographic disparities
Loneliness
Multistate modelling and causal inference modelling
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Socioeconomic position and ADHD
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Family formation in flux
Fertility
Immigration
Union Dynamics
Social Inequalities
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Childhood Adversity
Machine Learning
Health Inequality
Population Aging
Publications and other activities
University of Eastern Finland
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University of Helsinki
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Helsinki Region Transport
Syddansk Universitet
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Publications and other activities at the University of Helsinki
University of Bristol
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University of Helsinki
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Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
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City of Helsinki Urban Facts
netta.maki@hel.fi
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University of Turku
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University of Helsinki
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University of Helsinki
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THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare)
outi.sirnio@thl.fi
University of Helsinki
Publications and other activities at the University of Helsinki
The Professor of Sociology and Demography in 1977-2007 and the founder of the Population Research Unit.
Scientific autobiography in Finnish “Käytännöllisiä ja hyödyllisiä ongelmia: Puoli vuosisataa sosiaalitutkijana [Practical and useful problems: Half a century as a social scientist]”, University of Helsinki, 2012.