Jouko Miettunen

PhD
Professor
mental health, epidemiology, biostatistics

Research Unit of Population Health
Faculty of Medicine

Jouko Miettunen is a professor of clinical epidemiology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. He is working mainly on topics related to psychiatric epidemiology in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort studies. He has experience from several national and international projects relating to life course epidemiology. His background is in statistics and epidemiology. He has supervised 18 doctoral students and has over 350 publications, especially on mental health, epidemiology and medical statistics. More information: http://www.joukomiettunen.net/

Research interests

Schizophrenia, Depression, Bipolar disorder, Epidemiology, Psychiatry, Temperament, Register research, Psychometrics

Researcher information

Research groups

Psychiatric Epidemiology - Northern Finland Birth Cohort studies 1966 and 1986

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Scientific merits

Thesis supervisions

Doctoral dissertations

Filatova Svetlana, PhD (Trends and interactions of risk factors in psychotic disorders – Northern Finland Birth cohorts studies) [2018] (principal supervisor) - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node/49710

Haapea Marianne, PhD (Selection and information bias in psychiatric research) [2010] (assistant supervisor) - http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/isbn978-951-42-6157-2

Huhtaniska Sanna, MScD (Predictors for changes in brain morphology in schizophrenia) [2018] (principal supervisor) - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node/50057

Hulkko Anja, MScD (Cognition and psychiatric medication in schizophrenia) [2017] (assistant supervisor) - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node/48907

Ikonen Helmi, MScD (Vitamin D status and its associations with disease over the course of adulthood – a Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study) [2024] (assistant supervisor)

Jallow Jandeh (Early risk factors for ADHD - a Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 Study) [2024] (assistant supervisor)

Juola Pauliina, MScD (Outcome in schizophrenia and its predictors - the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort) [2015] (assistant supervisor) - http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/isbn978-952-62-0772-8

Karppanen Anna-Kaisa, PhD (Associations of early-life motor development, young adulthood temperament and anhedonia with physical activity in midlife and changes in physical activity during adulthood – Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966) [2024] (assistant supervisor)

Käkelä Juha, MScD (Family history of psychosis and outcome of schizophrenia) [2018] (principal supervisor) - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node/52440

Keskinen Emmi, MScD (Familial risk and its associations to risk factors for psychoses - the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort) [2015] (principal supervisor) - http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/isbn978-952-62-1048-3

Kinnunen Lotta, MD (The association of parental somatic illness with offspring’s mental health) [2021] (principal supervisor] - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node/209936

Kivelä Milja, MScD (Childhood risk factors for young adult strokes – the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966) [assistant supervisor, 2022] - https://oulurepo.oulu.fi/handle/10024/36982

Majuri Tuomas, MScD (Occupational and other outcomes in schizophrenia and other psychoses) [assistant supervisor, 2023] - https://oulurepo.oulu.fi/handle/10024/46362

Mäkinen Johanna, MScD (Methods of search and analysis of published schizophrenia research) [2010] (principal supervisor) - http://jultika.oulu.fi/files/isbn9789514262838.pdf

Moilanen Jani, MScD (The use of antipsychotic medication and its association with outcomes and brain morphometry in schizophrenia – the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study) [2016] (assistant supervisor) - http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/isbn978-952-62-1206-7

Mustonen Antti, MD (Substance use as risk factor for psychoses) [2018] (principal supervisor, Finnish Addiction Medicine association thesis award and University of Oulu Medical Faculty thesis award) - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node/54704

Nedelec Rozenn, PhD (Metabolic health and obesity: early determinants, trajectories and causal analysis – the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 and 1986 studies) [assistant supervisor, 2023] - https://oulurepo.oulu.fi/handle/10024/46374

Penttilä Matti, MScD (Duration of untreated psychosis - the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort) [2013] (assistant supervisor) - http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/isbn978-952-62-0149-8

Ramsay Hugh, MScD (Familial risk and adverse cognitive outcomes in psychotic disorders) [2017] (assistant supervisor) - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node/48972

Rissanen Ina, MScD (Nervous system medications and suicidal ideation and behaviour. The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966) [2015] (principal supervisor, Finnish Psychiatric Research Foundation thesis award) - http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/isbn978-952-62-0807-7

Roivainen Eka, PhD (Validity in psychological measurement: an investigation of norms) [2015] (principal supervisor) - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node/38078

Saarinen Aino, PhD (Is psychosis risk associated with structural and functional abnormalities in the brain?) [2020] (assistant supervisor) - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node22821

Taka-Eilola Tiina, MD (Mental health problems in the adult offspring of antenatally depressed mothers in the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort; relationship with parental severe mental disorder) [2019] (assistant supervisor) - https://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/node/59248

Contact information

E-mail

jouko.miettunen@oulu.fi

Phone number

+358407167261

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Visiting address

Aapistie 5B, 90220 Oulu

Postal address

Research Unit of Population Health, PO Box 5000, 90014 University of Oulu

Keywords

Medicine and health sciences Clinical medicine epidemiology Neurology and psychiatry depression Public health care science, life course and health cohort research health of Northern finns