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
Acceptable, useful, and ineffective? Recent retirees’ experiences of a 12-month activity tracker-based physical activity intervention (2023)
Digital health
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Probable Sarcopenia, Obesity, and Risk of All-Cause Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of 4,612 Participants (2023)
Gerontology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Workplace Psychosocial Resources and Risk of Sleep Disturbances Among Employees (2023)
JAMA Network Open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Association of working hours with accelerometer-based sleep duration and sleep quality on the following night among older employees (2023)
Sleep epidemiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Pertrochanteric hip fracture is associated with mobility decline and poorer physical performance 4 to 6 months post-hip fracture (2023)
BMC Geriatrics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Finnish Retirement and Aging Study: a prospective cohort study (2023)
BMJ Open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Daily Physical Activity Patterns and Their Associations with Cardiometabolic Biomarkers: The Maastricht Study (2023)
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Associations between arterial health and sexual function in late middle-aged women (2023)
European Congress on Menopause and Andropause, Maturitas
(Muu (O2))
Physical activity and self-rated health during retirement transition: a multitrajectory analysis of concurrent changes among public sector employees (2023)
BMJ Open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Do Sleep Problems Explain the Association Between Work Stress and the Trajectories of Work Ability From Midlife to Pensionable Age? (2023)
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))