Contact information
email. marja.jylha@uta.fi
Tel. +358 3 3551 6763
Fax. +358 3 3551 6057


Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Publications (pdf)

DPPH

Research projects
      TamELSA
      Vitality 90+
      Urbage
      Coctel

ERA-AGE

Tampere School of
Public Health

University of Tampere

Marja Jylhä, MD, Ph.D                                       Suomeksi
Professor of Gerontology

Marja Jylhä, MD, Ph.D is Professor of Gerontology at the Tampere School of Public Health.

She is Director of the Graduate School "Doctoral Programs in Public Health" and member of the Steering Group of the Graduate School on "Aging, Well-being and Technology". She is Chair of the Steering Committee of the European Research Area in Ageing Research (ERA-AGE) and actively involvolved in the National Forum on Ageing in Finland.

She teaches courses at graduate and doctoral level on theories and methods in public health and different themes related to aging. Currently, she is supervising nine doctoral students.

Her interests in research include  disability and mortality; social determinants of health; longevity and the oldest-old; old age as a stage of life, and aging and health as social and cultural constructs. Her major research theme for twenty years is self-perceived health, and recently she is focusing on the biological basis of self-rated health.

The social gerontology research group at the School of Public Health applies both epidemiological  and qualitative methods and aims to promote interdisciplinary approaches in aging research. Major research  projects include the Tampere Longitudinal Study on Aging (TamELSA), Vitality 90+ (Co-PI together with Antti Hervonen) , Aging in an Urban Environment (Urbage) and Age, Time to Death and Regional Characteristics as Predictors of Use and Costs of Health and Social Services (Coctel).