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Professor of demography (Ph.D.)

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.

Postdoctoral researcher (D.Soc.Sc.)

Research topics:
Social consequences of parental and childhood illness (SCOPE)
Socioeconomic differences in crime

Postdoctoral researcher (Ph.D.)

Research topics:
Determinants and correlates of leisure-time physical activity

Postdoctoral researcher (Ph.D)

Senior lecturer (D.Soc.Sc.)

Research topics:
Determinants of institutional care
Formal care and voting
Reproductive history and mortality
Widowhood and health

Technical assistant (M.Soc.Sc.)

Doctoral student (M.Soc.Sc.)

Research assistant (B.Soc.Sc.)

Doctoral student and researcher (M.Soc.Sc.)

Research topics:
Contingent Life Courses (C-LIFE)
Promoting mental well-being and healthy ageing in cities (MINDMAP)
Social determinants of dementia and institutional long-term care

University lecturer (D.Soc.Sc.)

Research topics:
Sociodemographic and health related determinants of electoral participation

Doctoral student Soc.Sc. (M.Econ.)

Research topics:
Technological progress and the changing labor markets: Assessing increasing automation’s effects on the career paths and mental health of individuals.

University lecturer (D.Soc.Sc.)

Research topics:
Consequences of parental and childhood illness (SCOPE)
Poor health and union instability

Doctoral student and researcher (M.Soc.Sc.)

Research topics:
Social consequences of parental and childhood illness (SCOPE)

University researcher (Ph.D.)

Research topics:
Contingent Life Courses (C-LIFE)
Longitudinal birth cohort and family-based studies of morbidity, mortality and social disadvantage (BIRTHFAM)
Promoting mental well-being and healthy ageing in cities (MINDMAP)
Social consequences of parental and childhood illness (SCOPE)
Poor health and union instability
Social determinants of depression outcomes

Professor (Ph.D.)

Technical assistant (B.Soc.Sc.)

Doctoral student (M.Soc.Sc.)

University researcher (D.Soc.Sc.)

Research topics:
Social consequences of parental and childhood illness (SCOPE)
Living arrangements and the transition to adulthood
Longitudinal birth cohort and family-based studies of morbidity, mortality and social disadvantage (BIRTHFAM)
Social determinants of health and mortality from childhood to early adulthood

Research as­sist­ant (B.Soc.Sc.)

Research as­sist­ant (B.Soc.Sc.)

Research as­sist­ant

Senior lecturer (Ph.D.)

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

Doctoral student (M.Soc.Sc)

Postdoctoral researcher (D.Soc.Sc.)

Research topics:
The association between income and mortality
Contingent Life Courses (C-LIFE)
Promoting mental well-being and healthy ageing in cities (MINDMAP)

Emeritus professor of sociology and demography (Ph.D.)

Research interests:
macro-social determinants of social exclusion; trends in the social and demographic structure of urban areas; trends and differentials in mortality.

Email: tapani.valkonen@helsinki.fi

Research assistant (B.Soc.Sc.)

Akseli Aittomäki (Ph.D.)

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

Helsinki Region Transport

Julia Hellstrand (M.Sc)

University of Helsinki
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Kimmo Herttua (D.Soc.Sc.)

Syddansk Universitet
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Aline Jelenkovic (Ph.D.)

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Fanny Kilpi (D.Soc.Sc.)

University of Bristol
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Hanna Konttinen

University of Helsinki
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Taina Leinonen (D.Soc.Sc.)

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
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Netta Mäki (D.Soc.Sc.)

City of Helsinki Urban Facts
netta.maki@hel.fi
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Jessica Nisén (D.Soc.Sc.)

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
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Outi Sirniö (D.Soc.Sc.)

University of Turku / Stockholm University
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Maria Valaste

University of Helsinki
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