Iman Alaie

Iman Alaie

Postdoctoral Researcher
Visiting address: Avd försäkringsmedicin, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 Fm Svedberg, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • PhD (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry), Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University, 2021.

    Licensed psychologist, registered at the National Board of Health and Welfare, 2012.

    MSc (Psychology), Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala University, 2011.

Research

  • I am a post-doctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet, with a background as a clinical psychologist within child and adolescent mental health services. From mid-September 2024, I also hold a position as a senior lecturer at Uppsala University.

    My research interests fall broadly into the areas of psychiatric epidemiology, clinical psychology, public health sciences, and insurance medicine. Currently, I am involved in a series of projects using longitudinal and twin designs to address key questions relevant to understanding labor market marginalization among youths and young adults with various mental health conditions, such as unipolar depression, anxiety disorders, and neurodevelopmental conditions. Such understanding may hopefully help to inform social policymaking and improve public mental health strategies for vulnerable groups at risk of facing adverse health and social functioning over the longer term.

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Grants

  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026
    Labour market marginalisation (LMM) remains a major public health concern, especially in young people with psychiatric disorders such as depression and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Yet, there is scarce knowledge on the underlying etiologic mechanisms and pathways linking early psychiatric disorders to LMM, in terms of sickness absence (SA), disability pension (DP) and long-term unemployment (LTU). We will study the role of familial factors (ie, genetics and shared environment), comorbidities (eg, depression + ADHD) and social adversities (eg, bullying) for the risk of SA, DP and LTU in young adults with early psychiatric disorders.The project brings together an interdisciplinary team with expertise in epidemiology, insurance medicine and twin studies to conduct groundbreaking research using large-scale epidemiologic cohorts of youths, born 1982-2002, in the total Swedish population (N=1580371) and the Swedish Twin Registry (n=21494). Youths with psychiatric disorders (eg, depression, ADHD), assessed at ages 5-19 years, will be prospectively followed into young adulthood regarding SA, DP and LTU using linkage with nationwide registries. The unique data sources combined with use of advanced statistical methods provide a distinct opportunity to obtain precise estimates with minimal risk of potential bias.The project has clear potential to identify specific and potentially modifiable risk factors for LMM, thereby informing policymaking and healthcare planning.
  • Identifying long-term predictors of young adults not in education, employment, or training (NEET)
    Canadian Institutes of Health Research
    1 March 2023 - 29 February 2024

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