Public health at University of Turku

Public Health at University of Turku carries out high-level research work in a close national and international cooperation network. Research priorities include the development of health and health risks from a life cycle perspective, health geography research, psychosocial risk factors, application of epidemiological methods supporting causal reasoning to observational (non-experimental) data, research of large register data and development of a service system.

Contribution to HERCULES

Public Health hosts a research group with a longstanding expertise in multiple longitudinal data sets to examine social and physical neighbourhood contextual influences on health outcomes in designs that improve on causal inference to overcome endogenous neighbourhood effects and long-term collaboration in neighbourhood epidemiology and population health geography with Harvard School of Public Health, USA and, recently, the Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health (CRESH) in Edinburgh, Scotland.