Juha Pekkanen#
| Membership Number: | 6684 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/juha-pekkanen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1083-8777 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014, 02 Professor of public health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki
- 2014, 02 Research professor (part time), Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
- 2016 - 2020 Head, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki
- 2004 - 2016 Professor of environmental health (part time), University of Eastern Finland,
- 2008 - 2013 Head, Dept of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare
- 1992 - 2008 Head, Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute,
- 1984 - 1992 Researcher, National Public Health Institute, Dept. of Epidemiology, Helsinki
- Years spent abroad:
- 2002 - 2003 Visiting scientist, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain (12 months)
- 1997 - 1998 Visiting professor, Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand (12 months)
- 1987 - 1988 Visiting scholar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA (12months)
Fields of Scholarship
- Moisture damage in buildings
- Indoor microbes
- Asthma and allergies
- Environmental risk assessment
- Public Health
- Environmental health
- Outdoor air pollution
- Epidemiology
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Epidemiologist of the year, Finland
- 2002 - 2007 Centre of Excellence of Environmental Health Risk Analysis, Academy of Finland and TEKES
- 1998 - 2022 In total 10 million euros obtained, including 22 EU funded projects, as coordinator or applicant
