Professor Jaakko Tuomilehto
Professor Jaakko Tuomilehto is Professor of Public Health at the University
of Helsinki, Finland. In addition, he is affiliated with the Diabetes and
Genetic Epidemiology Unit of the National Public Health Institute, Helsinki,
Finland and holds positions as Professor at the Danube-University Krems, Austria.
He has been involved in a number of key cardiovascular prevention studies including the North Karelia Project, the FINMONICA Study ( the Finnish part of the WHO MONICA project), DECODE and DECODA. He initiated the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study, the landmark study for the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes. He is a member of several national and international committees and the chair of the Finnish Epidemiological Society and of the Neuroepidemiology Science Panel of the European Federation of Neurological Sciences. He is also a member of numerous scientific societies including the Finnish Society of Hypertension (past President), International Diabetes Epidemiology Group (past President), International Society of Hypertension and the European Society of Cardiology (past President of the Working Group on Epidemiology and Prevention).
He has published over 800 peer-reviewed original articles and about 200 Editorials, Reviews and Book chapters and has served on the advisory boards of many scientific journals.
He has been presented with a number of prestigious awards including: India’s Prof. M. Viswanathan DRC Silver Jubilee Oration Award; Hans Chiari Award of the Austrian Stroke Research Society, the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association and the Peter Bennett Diabetes Epidemiology Award from the International Epidemiology Group.