STAGE ISSS: Marjo-Ritta Jarvelin

Join us for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with

Marjo-Ritta Jarvelin

Divisional Director of Postgraduate Studies
Professor and Chair, Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Public Health, MRC-HPA Centre
for Environment and Health
Faculty of Medicine
Imperial College London

Talk Title:

Genetics of Early Growth

Abstract:

Unavailable

Speaker Profile:

Dr. Jarvelin is Professor in Public Health and Lifecourse Epidemiology, affiliated at Imperial College London, UK, but holds a part-time professorship both at the National Institute of Health and Welfare and at the University of Oulu in Finland. She has been running large-scale population based studies for over 25 years, and has been working on the genetic and early life environmental origins of multi-factorial diseases/disorders in close collaboration with many internationally well-known institutions, groups, and networks. She is a director of the widely acknowledged Northern Finland Birth Cohort (NFBC) Research Program (about 20,000 subjects, born in 1966 and 1986), and has an active role in research training as a Director of Postgraduate Studies at School of Public Health, Imperial College London. Professor Jarvelin has published over 440 original papers and supervised 21 PhDs and many other postgraduate theses.

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