Aleksandra Kanina

I am a doctoral student at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics with a strong interest in reproductive epidemiology and
neurodevelopmental conditions. 
2023 - APSARD, Research award for poster presentation
2018 - 2020 Master´s in Public Health, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
2016 - 2018 Medical Resident, Saint-Petersburg State university
2010 - 2016 General Medicine, Saint-Petersburg State university

I work on prenatal and early life exposure to stress and its association with autism and 
ADHD using Swedish population registers and Norwegian Mother, Father and
Child Cohort Study (MoBa). My project uses family-based study designs to disentangle the effects 

of unmeasured familial confounding.