Anna Rosenberg ([email protected])
I work as a researcher in the Nordic Brain Network research group. My research interests include promotion of healthy aging and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, with focus on multidomain interventions.
Catherine Kayonga ([email protected])
In this PhD study, we will explore the unmet social and healthcare needs of older people in Finland. We aim to reveal how unmet social care needs are associated with mortality, the use of home care and institutionalization in later life. We also aim to provide insights on risk factors linked to unmet needs.
This study is part of two projects: 1) the Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE) study, with longitudinal data on health status, lifestyle, cognition, physical functioning, mood and biomarkers; 2) the Old-age Social Exclusion in Home Care – Prevalence, Meanings & Intervention (SOLDEX) project, examining the prevalence, risk factors and individual meanings of social exclusion in home-care clients.
Dennisse Avella ([email protected])
I am assessing the impact of lifestyle interventions (dietary and physical exercise) on blood microsampling metabolite composition when compared to conventional plasma and whole blood samples.
We aim to identify robust biomarker candidates that reflect the metabolic responsiveness to interventions and the related composition and function of the gut microbiota. The assessment includes a non-targeted metabolite profiling approach, as well as a compound-centric investigation of target metabolites.
The project takes place between industry and academia with Afekta Technologies Ltd., a metabolomics company specialized in food, nutrition, and gut microbiota-related analyses, and the University of Eastern Finland.
Donya Behzadpour ([email protected])
My research investigates the harmful effects of traffic-related ultrafine particles (UFPs) on the olfactory mucosa in both healthy individuals and patients with Alzheimer’s disease, and explores potential mitigation strategies to reduce or prevent UFP-induced damage, with the aim of informing public health interventions and therapeutic approaches.
Food for Mind – Nutrition-focused group intervention with a strength-based counseling approach for people with clinical depression
Frank Adusei-Mensah ([email protected])
Skilled Public & Global health Researcher. Email: [email protected]. I have extensive experience in teaching, research supervision, and emerging technologies.
Research interest: Pharmacoepidemiology of vaccines, Pandemic preparedness and vaccine preventable conditions, Digital public health including AI and M-health interventions, Interventional studies and appraised research, Public health and epidemiological research methods. I have keen interest in the prevention of tropical health conditions, In-utero exposure studies and developmental health outcomes, Clinical trials.
Teaching: Evidence-based health care, Occupational health and safety, Digital public health, Emerging public health challenges and opportunities in Africa. Others are Infectious disease epidemiology, and Systematic review & meta-analysis.
Supervision: MPH thesis and Ph.D. dissertations.
Research Group: PI & Research group Leader: Vaccine monitoring, pandemic preparedness and digital public health research group, Institute of public Health, UEF
Projects: PREDICT-NEURO, MaVaxTrust, AMEN, Niselo.
Honglin Chen ([email protected])
Dr. Honglin Chen is a Professor of Gerontological Social Work at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio. Her scholarly work centers on digital health interventions and cross-cultural care policies, with a particular emphasis on aging populations.
Professor Chen has led and contributed to numerous international research initiatives, including the EU-funded project “DigiWELL – Digital Technology and Welfare Research”, as well as studies commissioned by the World Health Organization focusing on multi-sector collaboration strategies for promoting healthy aging.
Her interdisciplinary research integrates perspectives from social sciences, social work, healthcare, and ethics to advance the development and implementation of welfare technologies in old age care.
Iman Zarei ([email protected])
I completed my PhD in Human Nutrition, minor in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology at the University of the Philippines joined with Colorado State University, USA. My PhD research focused on identification of dietary biomarkers in cereal bran using metabolomics from two human intervention studies in adults and children and determination of cereal bran property in inhibiting bacterial pathogenicity in mouse cell line. As my cognate was Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, during my PhD program, I also worked over three years as lar at the Grain Quality and Nutrition Center as well as the Genetic Transformation Laboratory of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, the most renowned rice research organization in the world. My work at IRRI included rice metabolomics, identification rice varieties with high protein content, and genetic modifications of rice for vitamin A (Golder Rice project) and iron and zinc bio-fortification. I currently work within the LongITools project (https://longitools.org) to study the effects physical activity and diet exposures on human health in determining the risks of chronic cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.