معرفی
Tiina Ikäheimo, PhD, serves as a University Researcher and Docent (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the Research Unit of Population Health within the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu. Concurrently, she holds a Professor position at the Department of Community Medicine, Occupational Health in the North, University of Tromsø, Norway, working 70% there since August 2021 while maintaining a 30% part-time role at Oulu.
Her research centers on environmental temperature impacts on human health and performance, with critical focus on climate change vulnerability mapping and exercise physiology. She integrates controlled experiments, population studies, and planned register-based/clinical methodologies to identify at-risk demographics for targeted public health interventions. Key thematic areas include cold/heat stress pathophysiology, diabetes-cardiovascular-temperature interactions, and life-course health promotion strategies.
Dr. Ikäheimo leads two major research initiatives: Year-round health enhancing exercise and coronary artery disease (CadColdEx) investigating exercise-cardiology relationships, and DiabColdHeat, a randomized trial examining diabetes complications under thermal stress. She actively contributes to the CERH research group within Oulu's Population Health framework.
