Current research and projects
Below is an alphabetical list of research and other projects that THL is currently funding or for which THL receives external funding.
- Action Plan on Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs and Gambling
- A high-quality database to support equality in Finland: National and regional integration (MoniTieto)
- Air pollution exposures at Finnish levels – effects on birth outcomes, childhood asthma and mortality (APPEAL)
- Barnahus project
- Benchmarking system of health promotion capacity building TEAviisari
- BEST-COST: Burden of disease based methods for estimating the socio-economic cost of environmental stressors
- Building a knowledge-based wellbeing economy in Finland – a project to develop policy tools
- Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE)
- Climate change and Health: Adapting to Mental, Physical and Societal challenges (CHAMPS)
- Coordination for Equal Inclusion
- Coping of disabled persons and persons of migrant origin in exceptional and crisis situations – Building the future based on experiences during Covid-19
- Costs of domestic violence in Finland (LAKU)
- COVID-19 Coronavirus infection and exposure in households
- Development of the THL Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE-THL)
- Diabetes in Finland (FinDM)
- Digital skills training for health care professionals in oncology (DigiCanTrain)
- Drinking habits survey 2016 – a survey on drinking habits and attitudes towards alcohol
- Drug Preparedness (DRUG-PREP)
- Drugs and pregnancy
- E3 Excellence in Pandemic Response and Enterprise Solutions
- Easy Steps towards Working Life
- Economic and social sustainability across time and space in an ageing society (SustAgeable)
- ESTER Preterm birth, pregnancy and offspring health in adult life
- Extended EHR@EU Data Space for Primary Use (Xt-EHR)
- Extracting information from unstructured text data in the Finnish patient data repository with machine learning methods (Aioli)
- FINGER – research project
- Finnish Research Infrastructure on Population Based Surveys (FIRI-PBS)
- FinRegistry
- FoodStep - a sustainable health-promoting model for food services and early childhood education and care
- For whom are health systems designed? Political determinants of health and equity in the context of a health system reform in Finland (POLDEQUITY)
- Health and wellbeing of prisoners: The Wattu IV Prison Population Study Finland
- Healthy Finland Survey
- Helsinki Birth Cohort Study (HBCS) - Idefix
- Helsinki Prodromal Study (HPS)
- Helsinki Psychotherapy Study
- Helsinki Study of Very Low Birth Weight Adults (HeSVA)
- Icehearts longitudinal study
- Immune responses to emerging viruses
- Impacts of the coronavirus epidemic on experiences of domestic violence and the use of services (KOVÄ)
- Implementation of ICD-11 in Finland
- INVEST flagship – Inequalities, Interventions and a New Welfare State
- IPS – Individual Placement and Support project
- Joint Action on Strengthened International Health Regulations and Preparedness in the EU (SHARP JA)
- Maintenance and Continuous Development of Existing Services under MyHealth@EU infrastructure in Finland (MaCoDeExSe)
- Mental health and life satisfaction among youth with disabilities and experiences of services in the post-pandemic period (D-youth)
- Mental health and social disadvantage over the early life course: investigation into genes, families and living conditions (MEDIG)
- Mining of wastewater metagenomic data to identify population health and disease trends (MiWaGen)
- Monitoring Digital Healthcare and Social welfare
- MOnitoring Outbreak events for Disease surveillance in a data science context (MOOD), Horizon 2020
- National coordination of rare diseases
- National Health Index
- National Mental Health Strategy 2020-2030
- National survey on health, well-being and service use among foreign-born population (MoniSuomi)
- Non-Violent Childhoods Action Plan
- Nordic Children and Adults Born Preterm (NORDCAP)
- Nordic eHealth Research Network (NeRN)
- Out of Despair - providing solutions to break the pathways leading to violent, suicidal and drug-induced deaths of young people (Young Despair)
- P6 – Genomics to Healthcare
- Pandemic preparedness and response (PANDEM-2)
- Path to Safety study
- PERFECT – PERFormance, Effectiveness and Cost of Treatment episodes
- Programme for suicide prevention
- Promoting Healthy Weight in Children (PromoKids) - Ending Childhood Obesity in the Nordic Countries
- Psychosis: risk factors, clinical course and prognosis
- SARS-CoV-2 at wastewater treatment plants
- School Health Promotion study
- Shelters providing safety (Turvallisuutta turvakodista) -study
- Social innovations in child welfare (SOILA-coordination project)
- Streamlining laboratory procedures, bioinformatics and integrating use of genomic data in infectious disease surveillance in Finland (HaD_SinGen)
- Strengthening an anti-racist approach to work: acceleration and mainstreaming
- Strengthening Environmental Surveillance to Advance Public Health Action (ODIN)
- Strengthening the capacity of the Serbia’s health sector for communicable disease surveillance
- Stress, development and mental health (the TAM project)
- Study of Individual-level progression of COVID-19 infection (COVIDprog)
- Support in Implementation of Health Impact Assessment Practice in Georgia
- Supportive conversation skills for reception centers - mental health for asylum seekers (TAVATA)
- Technical Assistance for the Support for Children’s Rights in Turkey
- Technology supporting smart ageing and care at home programme (KATI)
- The distributional effects of social and health care in Finland (SOTE-SISU)
- The European Partnership on transforming health and care systems (THCS)
- The Finnish 1987–1990 Birth Cohort
- The Finnish Gestational Diabetes Study (FinnGeDi)
- The Finnish Indoor Air and Health Programme 2018–2028
- The Finnish Student Health and Wellbeing Survey (KOTT)
- The Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS), Expert Group (EG) on HIV, TB and Associated Infections
- The P5 Study - Genetic information for health support
- Ultrafine particles from Transportation – Health Assessment of Sources (ULTRHAS)
- Understanding the link between Air pollution and Distribution of related Health Impacts and Welfare in the Nordic countries (NordicWelfAir)
- Vector-borne diseases and climate-change in Finland: Mapping, modelling and mitigation (VECLIMIT)
- Very low birth weight adult health – a sibling study
- Wastewater-based surveillance as pandemic preparedness tool (WastPan)
- Wastewater Treatment plants as a trusted Source of Timely information on antimicrobial resistance threat (TruSTme)
- World’s Smoothest Cross-Border Mobility and Daily Life Through Digitalisation
- “They should be tested like banks are” – Resilience, crisis preparedness and security of supply of the Finnish health system (RECPHEALS)
