People

Meet our people! Here you find researchers, doctoral students, research assistants and affiliates associated with the Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health.

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Head of the Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health

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.

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Gene-environment interactions
Socio-economic and global health inequalities

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Socioeconomic inequalities in health and mortality
Health consequences of involuntary job loss under mortgage strain

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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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Social theory
Social stratification and its impact on individual health
Social determinants of health-risk behaviours (within family, school or neighbourhood context)
Peer influence on health-risk behaviour

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Sociodemographic and health related determinants of electoral participation 
Social stratification and mobility 

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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


 

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Family Formation in Flux

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Obesity in childhood and adolescence and the clinical and biological implications in adulthood
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Socioeconomic inequalities in health and mortality
Statistical and formal demography
Bayesian statistics

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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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Childhood Adversity
Machine Learning
Health Inequality
Population Aging

 

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Socioeconomic determinants of non-reporting behavior after violent victimization in Finland

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Socioeconomic inequalities in health and mortality in emerging adulthood
Family background, education, and mental health

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Health and socioeconomic inequalities in old age
Technical and research assistants
Affiliates

Mikko Aaltonen (D.Soc.Sc.)

University of Eastern Finland

Sari Aaltonen (Ph.D.)

University of Helsinki

Elina Brandt (née Mäenpää) (D.Soc.Sc.)

Helsinki Region Transport

Aline Jelenkovic (Ph.D.)

Fanny Kilpi (D.Soc.Sc.)

University of Bristol

Hanna Konttinen (D.Soc.Sc.)

University of Helsinki

Maria Guzman Castillo (Ph.D.)

Heta Moustgaard (Ph.D.)

Sanni Variskallio (Doc. Res.)

University of Helsinki

Taina Leinonen (D.Soc.Sc.)

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Netta Mäki (D.Soc.Sc.)

City of Helsinki Urban Facts

Jessica Nisén (D.Soc.Sc.)

University of Turku

Amir Sari­aslan (Ph.D.)

University of Helsinki

Kateryna Savelieva (Ph.D.)

University of Helsinki

Outi Sirniö (D.Soc.Sc.)

THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare)

Maria Valaste (D.Soc.Sc.)

University of Helsinki

Margherita Moretti (Ph.D.)

Bocconi University

 
Professor emeritus Tapani Valkonen

The Professor of Sociology and Demography in 1977-2007 and the founder of the Population Research Unit.

Scientific autobiography in Finnish