Samuli Pesälä

MD PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
General and Public Health Medicine

Research Unit of Population Health
Faculty of Medicine

My research background is healthcare professionals’ and citizens’ online information seeking on infectious diseases using multiple registers and log-data sources. I am a medical doctor specialized in general practice and public health medicine with diverse clinical experience across various healthcare sectors in Finland.

I currently work as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on the Northern Finland Birth Cohort (NFBC1966) and study protocols for the upcoming data collection. My research interests include multimorbidity, healthy ageing, and digital medicine. I am finishing my studies in Master’s Programme in Epidemiology and Biomedical Data Science (EBDS), at the University of Oulu.

Research interests

  • Multimorbidity
  • Healthy Ageing
  • Lifecourse Epidemiology

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E-mail

samuli.pesala@oulu.fi

Visiting address

Research Unit of Population Health (PopH), Faculty of Medicine, Kontinkangas Campus, Aapistie 5 B, 90220, Oulu, Finland

Postal address

Research Unit of Population Health (PopH), P.O. Box 5000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland

Keywords

epidemiology public health cohort research prevention of cardiovascular diseases prevention of chronic diseases

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