Maili Malin

Official title: Senior research fellow
Tel. +358  29 524 8283
E-mail: [email protected] 

Expertise

• Health and wellbeing differences among population
• Child protection services and customers
• Migrant origin population, women, children and youth

Primary duties

• Welfare State Research and Reform Unit, Social Security and Services Team: The impact assessment of Economic of wellbeing project
• Wide spectrum outcomes for person with history of out of home care, register based case study

Education

• 2006 PhD in Helsinki University, Department of political sciences. sociology
• 2011 Adjunct professor University of Helsinki, Sociology

Professional background

• 2023 – 2025 senior research fellow The impact assessment of Economic of wellbeing project, THL
• 2015 – 2022 senior research fellow, Migration institute of Finland and LAMPE-child protection research consortium.

• 2013 - 2015  visiting researcher, Health department, Mental health unit, THL 

Language skills

• Finnish (native)
• English (excellent)
• Spanish (good)

Current projects

• 2023-2025 The impact assessment of Economic of wellbeing project, child protection case study 
• 2021-2022 Migrant origin underage having out of home care history – how are they doing later in terms of education and labor market position? 
• 2021-2022 Co-clientness of Migrant origin underage having out of home care history and being in specialised psychiatric care 1996-2015

Previous projects

• 2015-2020 senior research fellow in Coming of age in excile (CAGE) - health and socioeconomic inequities of young Refugees in the Nordic Welfare Societies.Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
• 2021-2023 senior research fellow in LAMPE Expertise of workers in child protection services in terms of migrant origin children

• 2012-2013 researcher EU funded Refinement project How financial system is connected to quality of mental health services? 

Publications 

Dissertation

Malin M (2006) Biovalta, toiseus ja naisten toimijuus hedelmöityshoidossa. Stakes, Tutkimuksia 156, Helsinki. (väitöskirja, thesis) (Biopower, otherness and women’s agency in assisted reproductive technologies)

Scientific research articles 

• Malin, M & Gissler, M. (2008) Induced abortions among immigrant women in Finland. Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration, 3(1):2-12. 
• Malin M, Gissler M (2009) Maternal care and birth outcomes among ethnic minority women in Finland. BMC Public Health 2009, 9:84 
• Kinnunen J, Malin M, Raisamo S, Lindfors PL, Pere L, Rimpelä AH. (2015) The feasibility of web survey in studying health of ethnic minority youths. JMIR Res Protoc. 2015 May 7;4(2):e53. 
• Ala-Nikkola T, Pirkola S, Kontio R, Joffe G, Pankakoski M, Malin M, Sadeniemi M, Kaila M, Wahlbeck K. (2014) Size matters - determinants of modern, community-oriented mental health services. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2014, 11(8), 8456-8474.
• Sadeniemi M, Pirkola S, Pankakoski M, Joffe G, Kontio R, Malin M, Ala-Nikkola T, Wahlbeck K. (2014) Does Primary Care Mental Health Resourcing Affect the Use and Costs of Secondary Psychiatric Services?   Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2014, 11, 8743-8754.
• Heino A, Gissler M, Malin M, Väisänen H. (2018) Induced abortions by woman’s country of origin in Finland 2001–2014. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 1–8, 2018.
• Malin M (2020) Chapter 10 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Finnish Citizens Abroad. Kirjassa J.-M. Lafleur, D. Vintila (eds.), Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2), IMISCOE Research Series.
• Dunlavy A, Jamil de Montgomery C, Lorentzen T, Malin M, Hjern A. (2020) Equity in Education? A comparative analysis of educational outcomes among refugee children in the Nordic countries. CAGE project report 1.

Conference presentations

• Malin M, Dunvaly A, Jamil de Montgomery C, Lorentzen T. (2019) Educational paths of migrant origin youth in Nordic. Migration Conference 2019, 17.6-20.6.2019 Bari Italia.
• Lyytinen E, Malin M. (2017) Success stories of labour market integration by youth with a refugee background in Finland. Oral presentation in IMISCOE, Rotterdam, 28.6.2017.
• Malin M. (2016) Experiences of violence among Kurdish and Somali youth in capital city area in Finland. Oral presentation in EUPHA’s 6th European Conference on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health 23.6-25.6.2016 Oslo.
• Malin M, Grönlund N, Wahlbeck K. (2013) Mental health policy and the mental health care system in the southern Finland. Oral presentation. Eleventh Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry, MENTAL HEALTH POLICY, ECONOMICS AND HEALTH CARE REFORMS Venice Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista March 22-24, 2013.
• Wahlbeck K, Malin M. (2013) Mental Health Services Mapping and Comparison in a European Context -the Example of Finland. Oral presentation. World Psychiatric Association WPA REGIONAL CONGRESS: Innovation & Excellence - Primary Care, Mental Health & Public Health Integration: The Catalytic Role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Bukarest 10.4.-13.4.2013
• Raisamo S, Malin M, Lindfors P, Kinnunen J, Tiirikainen M, Pere L, Rimpelä A.. (2011).Multilingual web survey for collecting health data from linguistically diverse adolescents. Poster presentation in the EUPHA meeting in Copenhagen. 
• Malin M (2011) Gender differences in health and wellbeing of ethnic minority minors. Costhome monthly meeting in Lisbon 24.3-25.3.2011. (Theme: health of migrant and ethnic minority women and girls; Costhome=Health and social care for migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe)