Mika Gissler#
| Membership Number: | 7240 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://thl.fi/en/research-and-development/research-professors/mika-gissler |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 Research fellow, Karolinska Institutet and Region Stockholm, Sweden
- 2011 Professor, University of Turku, Research Centre for Child Psychiatry
- 2010 Research professor, THL Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
- 2000 Adjunct professor in Public Health, University of Oulu
- 2016 - 2021 Visiting professor, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Stockholm, Sweden)
- 2008 - 2015 Professor in Epidemiology, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg
- 2007 - 2015 Adjunct professor in Epidemiology, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg
- 2005 - 2006 Head of the Finnish Information Centre for Register Research, Helsinki, Finland
- 2009 - 2010 Development manager, THL Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
- 2000 - 2008 Development manager, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health
Fields of Scholarship
- International health statistics
- Maternal and child health
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Register-based research
- Migrant health
- Health statistics
- Life-course epidemiology
- Health monitoring
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Yrjö Janhsson Foundation Science Prize
- 2015 Doula prize from the Active Birth Society in Finland
- 2009 Honorary member of Finnish Association of Midwives
- 2005 International Association for Official Statistics, Prize for Best Paper for Young Official Statisticians
- 2001 Finland’s nomination to UNESCO's Javed Hussain prize for young researcher
- 1999 The best doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Medicine at University of Tampere
