Mika Kivimaki PhD

Professor Mika Kivimaki is an epidemiologist at University College London, UK, and University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the director of the British Whitehall II cohort study and leads the Individual-Participant-Data Meta-analysis in Working Populations (IPD-Work) consortium of 17 European cohort studies. The overarching aim of his research is to increase understanding of adulthood risk factors for impaired functioning and common chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. Kivimaki has published more than 900 peer-reviewed papers, including state-of-the-art reviews and meta-analyses in the Lancet and Nature Reviews.