• Institution Tampere University
  • Department/faculty Public Health

Medical epidemiologist and public health professional

Projects

From Data to Action: From Data to Action: Evaluating Infectious Disease Surveillance in Pakistan

Abdullah Alosaimi

PhD candidate

  • Institution School of Health Sciences
  • Department/faculty University of Tampere

Usman Ashraf

Doctoral Researcher

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Faculty of Social Sciences

I am a political ecologist working in forest conservation and politics of environment-development in Chinese investments in Pakistan under the China-Pakistan economic corridor.

Dandara Ataide Salvador

Research Scientist

  • Institution Geological Survey of Finland
  • Department/faculty Circular Economy Solutions

I am a geologist currently working as a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) in the mineral technology field, with expertise on battery and high-tech minerals and metals, such as Li, graphite, REE, Nb and Ta.

Salla Atkins

Associate professor

  • Institution Tampere University
  • Department/faculty Faculty of Social Science/ Health Sciences

Salla Atkins is a social scientist and professor of Public Health (especially Global Health) at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is also a research specialist at the department of Global Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institutet. For the past 16 years Salla has researched issues related to the social determinants of health, poverty, inequity, health systems and policy in low, middle, and high-income countries. Her interest is in mixed-methods and register research, especially multisectoral interventions to improve health and life course effects of social inequalities. Salla has coordinated large EU projects during her postdoctoral work and currently has projects in Finland in addition to collaborations with partners in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, India, and South Africa on various projects related to health equity. Her work is situated in the space between international, national and regional policy, and individual lives.

Jeremy Gould

Researcher/Professor

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Social Sciences

Anthropologist with a specialization in long-term social change in postcolonial Africa. Recent work focuses on the interaction between law and politics in state formation. Supplementary interests in epistemic decolonization, and in the legal frameworks around extractivist economies, especially in connection with indigenous communities.

  • Institution Åbo Akademi
  • Department/faculty Institute for Human Rights

Lisa Grans holds a PhD in Public International Law from Åbo Akademi University (2018) and has published extensively on the issue of women’s rights, with a particular focus on violence against women. Her expertise also includes the prohibition of discrimination, the prohibition of torture and linguistic rights. Grans has worked practically for over 20 years with promoting the human rights of women and other disadvantaged groups in cooperation with the relevant governmental bodies in countries such as Georgia, Kosovo and Turkey, having been based in the latter two.

Projects

Prevention of honour-related violence through the lens of the right to physical and psychological integrity

Raija Koskinen

Senior Lecturer

  • Institution HAMK, Häme University of Applied Sciences
  • Department/faculty School of Wellbeing

Sociologist and trained welfare professional with a broad working experience in Finnish social services since 1980ies. Expert member in the administration courts of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna in matters of child welfare, adoption and disability services. Visiting researcher in the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland, THL. Research interest include: practice research in social work, science and technology studies, sociocybernetics, implementation studies. Research and development collaboration in Europe, Asia and LAC region.

Niina Käyhkö

Team leader

  • Institution University of Turku
  • Department/faculty Department of Geology and Geography