Paula Rantakallio Symposium on Birth Cohorts and Longitudinal Studies
Now it is official, we will have the fifth Paula Rantakallio Symposium on Birth Cohorts and Longitudinal Studies on the 12th to the 14th of June 2024!
The conference will be held at the University of Oulu, Finland, home of the Northern Finland Birth Cohorts and Artic Biobank initiated in 1965 by Professor Paula Rantakallio.
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Looking forward to seeing you in Oulu in 2024!

Previous conference
The fourth Paula Rantakallio Symposium was held for the first time in a hybrid mode and was a success. In total, we had 149 on-site and online participants from 17 different countries and six different continents!
We want to thank all speakers and participants as well as all our collaborators for their contributions.
Organising committee
Sylvain Sebert, Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu
Juha Veijola, Unit of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oulu
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Northern Finland Birth Cohorts and Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu
Minna Ruddock, Northern Finland Birth Cohorts, Arctic Biobank, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu
Jouko Miettunen, Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu
Johannes Kettunen, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu
Eero Kajantie, PEDEGO Research Unit, University of Oulu
Tuula Hurtig, Unit of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oulu
Teija Juola, Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu
Last updated: 21.9.2022