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Finland
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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World Ranking
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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Seppo Koskinen is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland and has a research focus within the broad field of Medicine. Their work primarily addresses multiple subfields including Health, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Demography.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as Health disparities and outcomes, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Retirement, Disability, and Employment, Employment and Welfare Studies, Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies, Retinal Diseases and Treatments, and Workplace Health and Well-being.

Seppo Koskinen's publication record includes numerous papers in several notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues are:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Acta Ophthalmologica
  • BMJ Open
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Scientific Reports

Recent research papers authored or co-authored by Koskinen include:

  • Education and wealth inequalities in healthy ageing in eight harmonised cohorts in the ATHLOS consortium: a population-based study, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • Self-rated health in individuals with and without disease is associated with multiple biomarkers representing multiple biological domains, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Standardized Map of Iodine Status in Europe, 2020, Thyroid
  • ARIA-EAACI statement on asthma and COVID-19 (June 2, 2020), 2020, Allergy
  • Development of a common scale for measuring healthy ageing across the world: results from the ATHLOS consortium, 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology

Koskinen often collaborates with several frequent co-authors including Tommi Härkänen, Tuija Jääskeläinen, José Luís Ayuso-Mateos, Satu Männistö, and Albert Sánchez-Niubò.

The scope of their research spans from population health and aging to nutritional and employment-related health studies, reflecting multidisciplinary approaches to public health challenges. The concentration on healthy ageing, biomarker associations with health, iodine status, and respiratory conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights a varied but interconnected set of interests in health outcomes across populations.

Best Publications

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Lifetime Prevalence of Psychotic and Bipolar I Disorders in a General Population

    Jonna Perälä;Jaana Suvisaari;Samuli I. Saarni;Kimmo Kuoppasalmi

  • Vitamin D deficiency in Europe: pandemic?

    Kevin D. Cashman;Kirsten G. Dowling;Zuzana Skrabakova;Marcela Gonzalez-Gross;Marcela Gonzalez-Gross

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.

    Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsud

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • Fall-induced injuries and deaths among older adults.

    Pekka Kannus;Jari Parkkari;Seppo Koskinen;Seppo Niemi

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • HEALTH AND FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY IN FINLAND Baseline Results of the Health 2000 Health Examination Survey

    Arpo Aromaa;Seppo Koskinen

  • Global Multimorbidity Patterns: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based, Multi-Country Study

    Noe Garin;Ai Koyanagi;Somnath Chatterji;Stefanos Tyrovolas

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • DSM-IV mood-, anxiety- and alcohol use disorders and their comorbidity in the Finnish general population--results from the Health 2000 Study.

    Sami P. Pirkola;Erkki Isometsä;Jaana Suvisaari;Hillevi Aro

  • Postural balance in a random sample of 7,979 subjects aged 30 years and over

    P. Era;P. Sainio;S. Koskinen;P. Haavisto

  • Lifetime prevalence of psychotic and bipolar I disorders in a general population. Commentary

    John J. Mcgrath;Jonna Perälä;Jaana Suvisaari;Samuli I. Saarni

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Tommi Härkänen
Tommi Härkänen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Samuli Ripatti
Samuli Ripatti University of Helsinki
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Massimo Mangino
Massimo Mangino King's College London
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland
Andres Metspalu
Andres Metspalu University of Tartu
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu

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