Sonja Lumme

Year of birth: 1974
Job title: Chief researcher, Team leader 
Tel: +358 29 524 7218
E-mail: [email protected]

Expertise

  • Register studies
  • Equity in access to and use of health care, quality of care and its outcomes
  • Health services research
  • Statistical methods in measuring equity in health care using register data 

Primary duties

  • Team Leadership 

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    Project Management 

Education

  • 2020, docent (public health), University of Helsinki 
  • 2017 PhD (public health), University of Helsinki
  • 2003, Master of Social Science (Statistics), University of Helsinki

Work experience

  • 2022-, Chief researcher, THL 
  • 2021-, Team manager, THL 

  • 2020-2022, Research manager, THL 
  • 2017–2020, Senior researcher, THL 
  • 2004–2017, Researcher, Stakes/THL 
  • 2002–2003, Statistician and data analyst, Stakes 
  • Summer 2002, Researcher, Finnish Cancer Registry 
  • 2001–2002, Statistician, Helsinki Heart Study 
  • 2000, Project researcher, The Finnish Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service 
  • 1998–1999, Research assistant, University of Helsinki  

Language skills

  • Finnish (mother tongue)
  • English (good)
  • Swedish (satisfactory)

Current projects