Presentations and posters

Keynote presentations

KEYNOTE: IDEFICS – design and baseline results of a European prospective intervention study in young children
Professor Wolfgang Ahrens, Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS), University of Bremen

KEYNOTE: Surveying children and adolescents: cognitive and social development and data quality
Text of a report on surveying children
Professor Edith D. de Leeuw, Department of Methodology and Statistics, University of Utrecht

KEYNOTE: Pregnancy/birth cohorts; past, present and future
Professor Jørn Olsen, School of Public Health, Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Aarhus University

KEYNOTE: The 1958, 1970 and Millennium Cohort studies in Britain: a unique resource for policy relevant research
Professor Jane Elliott, Head of Department & Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

INVITED LECTURE: Non-linear modeling with Bayesian methods
Adjunct professor Petri Nokelainen, University of Tampere

Presentations of research cohorts in Finland

The Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development cohort
Professor Lea Pulkkinen, University of Jyväskylä

Northern Finland birth cohorts: New challenges!
Professor Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Imperial College London and National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

Finnish Birth Cohort 1987 – new data sources linked to health data
Professor Mika Gissler, National Institute for Health and Welfare

Project presentations

Challenges in recruitment of study subjects and data collection in a multidisciplinary birth cohort study - experiences from FinnBrain
Hasse Karlsson, Professor of Integrative Neuroscience and Psychosomatics, University of Turku

CHILD-SLEEP – recruitment, data collection and application: experiences from a multidisciplinary study
Tiina Paunio, Adjunct professor, National Institute for Health and Welfare

Entering the era of mega meta analyses in genomics – experiences using data from Finnish cohorts (PUBGENSENS)
Markus Perola, Research professor, National Institute for Health and Welfare

Pathways to adulthood - to stimulate innovative, interdisciplinary, and comparative research of productive youth development - challenges and possibilities
Katariina Salmela-Aro, Professor, University of Helsinki

Lapset moninaisissa perhesuhteissa: eettiset kysymykset tutkimusprojektin eri vaiheissa
Kaisa Malinen, PsM, Jyväskylän yliopisto

Poster presentations

FinEdu: FINNISH EDUCATIONAL TRANSITIONS longitudinal study
Mette Ranta