About me
Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology (part-time employment) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, since 2007. The title was in 2012 changed to Professor of Epidemiology.
Director for Research of the Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Helsinki. Employed since 1975, retired in February 2019. Since March 2019 contract as part-time research expert.
Responsibilities
Coordination of and participation in reasearch projects. Guiding doctoral students.
Fields of expertise
Register-based epidemiology, cancer etiology.
Research unit
Research fields
Epidemiology
Public Health
Cancer
Biological risk factors of cancer
Familial clustering of cancer
Cancer predictions
Cancer map presentations
Selected publications
About 750 peer-reviewed epidemiological publications, including studies on cancer and other health outcomes related to physical and social environments, occupational hazards, and life habits; biological risk factors of cancer; familial clustering of cancer; evaluations of the effects of screenings and other interventions; survival studies; cancer predictions; cancer map presentations for numerous countries; methodological publications on register and bio bank data quality, data protection, privacy issue etc.