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Tea Lallukka serves as Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Helsinki, where she acts as Supervisor in both the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research and Doctoral Programme in Population Health. Her research focuses on public health, occupational health, and social determinants of health, utilizing longitudinal cohort studies and register-based data from Finnish populations.
Her primary research interests include health inequalities, disability pension pathways, cardiovascular disease risk factors, physical activity patterns, sedentary behavior consequences, and socioeconomic disparities in health behaviors. She employs advanced epidemiological methods to investigate how work conditions, lifestyle factors, and social contexts influence long-term health outcomes across the lifespan.
Analysis of her 2025 publications reveals consistent emphasis on work-health interactions, behavioral risk factors in aging populations, and social gradient effects on health outcomes. Key methodological approaches include register-linkage cohort designs, longitudinal trajectory analysis, and socioeconomic stratification of health behaviors.
Lallukka actively supervises doctoral and master's students including Antti Etholen, Teresa Leijon, and Elisa Leijon. She currently leads multiple significant projects: the Helsinki Health Study (2025-2027) examining lifestyles and weight, the Novartis Foundation AI4HealthyCities initiative (2024-2025), the Juho Vainio Foundation-funded project on post-work life (2023-2025, €90,000), and an Academy of Finland project on life after work (2020-2025).
Her research team collaborates extensively through the Helsinki Health Study consortium and Novartis Foundation partnerships, focusing on translating epidemiological findings into public health interventions. Current work emphasizes digital health solutions for urban populations and socioeconomic determinants of healthy aging.
