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Leena Forma (leena.forma@uef.fi)

I have a title of docent in health economics, especially the economics of ageing. I am interested in the use, costs and financing of health and social services among older people. I have studied these mainly using register data, but considering also hidden costs and all the different funding bodies also requires a multi-method approach. My more recent research interests include factors related to the retirement of older workers, as well as the economic evaluation of nutrition interventions. I belong to the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare).

I coordinate the preparation of the new bachelor’s program in economics. The program will be implemented in cooperation between several departments and will start in autumn 2025. I supervise master’s theses and doctoral dissertations in the field of health economics.

Maija Ylilauri (maija.ylilauri@uef.fi)

I am a registered dietitian and a Master of Health Sciences from the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Jyväskylä. I am writing a doctoral thesis in the field on nutrition epidemiology about dietary factors that are related to cognitive performance and the risk of memory disorders.

Maria Lankinen (maria.lankinen@uef.fi)

I am an authorized clinical nutritionist, and docent in nutrition, with specialization in lipid metabolism working at the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition. I have an over 10 years’ experience of randomized controlled clinical trials studying health effects of diet. Last years I have focused on gene-diet interactions related to fatty acid metabolism and prevention of type 2 diabetes. I also have an active role in the Fatty Acids and Outcomes Research Consortium, which goal is to understand the relationships between fatty acids from our diet and metabolic processes on chronic disease outcomes.

Projects: T2D-GENE, FADSDIET1&2, LIDIGE

Roosa-Maria Savela (roosa-maria.savela@uef.fi)

Researcher, interested in researching health inequalities. Passionate about social determinants of health, health economics, and health policy. I am part of the research project called LENTO (LifEstyle, NuTrition, and Oral health in caregivers) led by the University of Eastern Finland (Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, Department of Nursing Science, and the Institute of Dentistry, School of Medicine) in collaboration with the Kuopio University Hospital.

Roseanna Avento (roseanna.avento@uef.fi)

I also coordinate several food and nutrition security related capacity building projects implemented by UEF in the Global South. I am also currently working on my doctoral degree in UEF’s environmental policy research group in the Faculty of Social Science and Business. My research focuses on the role of Finnish higher education institutions in enhancing global food and nutrition security. I also work on fisheries and aquaculture research in UEF’s research group in aquatic ecology and behavioural ecology.

Timo Lakka (timo.lakka@uef.fi)

Timo Lakka is a Professor of Medical Physiology at University of Eastern Finland, a Specialist in Internal Medicine, and an Adjunct Professor of Public Health. His research is focused on the identification of individuals at increased risk of overweight, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases and the prevention of these diseases and conditions by increasing physical activity and improving diet since childhood. He is a Principal Investigator in the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) study and a Co-Principal Investigator in the Stop Diabetes (StopDia) study and the Dose Responses to Exercise Training (DR’s EXTRA) study. He has also acted as a senior researcher in many other large-scale lifestyle intervention studies, long-term epidemiological follow-up studies, and wide international genetic-epidemiological studies. He has published over 360 scientific articles in international journals, and these articles have almost 60 000 citations and a h-index of 106 (Google Scholar). He has supervised 24 doctoral theses and is a supervisor of another 13 doctoral students.