Sari
Stenholm
Professor, Public Health
Professor
Areas of expertise
Public Health
Gerontology
Epidemiology
Obesity
Sarcopenia
Physical Fitness
Physical activity
Accelerometry
Aging
Retirement
Biography
Selected earlier employment
- 2015-2020 Academy Research Fellow, University of Turku
- 2014-2015 Professor of gerontology, University of Tampere
- 2013-2015 Senior Researcher, University of Turku
- 2010-2013 Senior Researcher, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku / Helsinki
- 2007-2009 Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 2004-2007 Researcher, National Public Health Institute, Turku
Ongoing studies as a PI
Finnish Retirement and Aging study (FIREA), 2013– (www.utu.fi/firea ).
- Aim: Examine changes in health behaviors, health, and functioning before and after retirement transition
- Funders: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Education and Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation, Hospital District of Southwest Finland
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Aim: Examine and evaluate the effectiveness of technology-supported physical activity intervention among recent retirees
Funders: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Education and Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation
- Aim: Predictors and health consequences of extended working life
- Funder: Finnish Work Environment Fund
Awards and other honors
- Prize for Promising researcher in gerontology, the Nordic Gerontology Federation, 2014.
- Paper award, 2nd place, Finnish Society of Sport Sciences, 2016.
International research visits
- Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston, MA, USA, June 2017 – July 2017
- Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA, September 2012 – October 2012
- Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 2007 – November 2009
Publications
- 119 in international peer-reviewed journals and 5 in Finnish peer-reviewed journals
- 34 first authorship, 17 last authorship
- H index 26
Other academic activities
Editorial board membership
- Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences
- Scandinavian Journal for Work, Environment & Health
- Member of Advisory Board, Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen
- Member of Research Faculty at the Medical Faculty in University of Turku
- Member of Scientific Committee, Nordic Gerontological Federation (NGF)
Research training merits
- Experience in supervising PhD students (2 completed,
10 ongoing) and postdoctoral fellows
- Opponent (4 times) or examiner for PhD thesis (3 times)
Grant reviewer
- Expert reviewing panel in the Swedish Research Council
- Several other grant reviews for international funding institutes
Publications
Educational Differences in Decline in Maximum Gait Speed in Older Adults over an 11-year Follow-up (2021)
Journals of Gerontology, Series A
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Workplace discrimination as risk factor for long-term sickness absence: Longitudinal analyses of onset and changes in workplace adversity (2021)
PLoS ONE
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Association between Life Stressors and Arterial Stiffness: The Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (2021)
Artery Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Persistence of sleep difficulties for over 16 years amongst 66,948 working-aged adults (2021)
PLoS ONE
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Social relationships as predictors of extended employment beyond the pensionable age: a cohort study (2021)
European Journal of Ageing
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Modifications to residential neighbourhood characteristics and risk of 79 common health conditions: a prospective cohort study (2021)
Lancet Public Health
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Effect of Commercial Activity Tracker Based Physical Activity Intervention on Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Health Among Recent Retirees (2021)
Frontiers in aging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Effect of a Consumer-Based Activity Tracker Intervention on Accelerometer-Measured Sedentary Time Among Retirees: A Randomized Controlled REACT Trial (2021)
Journals of Gerontology, Series A
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Daily physical activity patterns and their association with health-related physical fitness among aging workers - the Finnish Retirement and Aging study (2021)
Journals of Gerontology, Series A
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Psychological Distress During the Retirement Transition and the Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions and Social Living Environment (2021)
Journals of Gerontology, Series B
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))