معرفی
Neda Agahi is a Principal Researcher and Associate Professor (Docent) in Public Health Science at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, where she leads the Social Gerontology research group at the Aging Research Center (ARC). Her work focuses on social gerontology, examining inequalities in aging through lifestyle, social relations, health, and disability trajectories among older adults.
Education: Agahi holds a PhD in Epidemiologic Aging Research from Karolinska Institutet and specializes in Public Health Science.
Research Focus: Her primary research explores aging from a life course perspective, investigating how socioeconomic factors and critical life events shape aging trajectories. Key areas include birth cohort differences in aging behaviors (social activities, physical activity, diet, alcohol consumption), psychosocial resilience after losses (partner death or physical decline), and multidimensional inequalities in old age. She employs mixed methods across national and international datasets.
Publication Trends: Recent work (2018-2023) demonstrates concentrated focus on socioeconomic gradients in aging outcomes, with particular attention to pandemic impacts on elderly lifestyles, disability trends, and income-mortality relationships. Her research consistently utilizes longitudinal Swedish register data while incorporating comparative European frameworks through SHARE and TILDA studies.
Research Leadership: Agahi directs multiple major projects including:
- Aging in Flux: Analyzing behavioral trajectories across birth cohorts (1910s-1940s) into advanced old age
- Resilience After Losses: Multinational study on psychosocial adaptation in Sweden, Ireland, Poland, and Spain
- Social Inequalities in Ageing Network (SIA): Nordic collaboration addressing aging inequalities
Team Structure: She leads a multidisciplinary ARC group comprising PhD student Erika Augustsson, Assistant Professor Malin Ericsson, Researcher Stefan Fors, and collaborates closely with Professor Johan Fritzell. The team maintains strong ties with civil society organizations across Nordic countries for implementation-focused knowledge translation.
