Harpa Sif Eyjólfsdóttir

Harpa Sif Eyjólfsdóttir

Anknuten till Forskning
Besöksadress: Tomtebodavägen 18 A, 17177 Stockholm
Postadress: H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, H1 ARC Socialgerontologi Lennartsson, 171 77 Stockholm

Om mig

  • Harpa Sif Eyjólfsdóttir is a PhD and a member of the social gerontology
    group at the Aging Research Center (ARC).
    I am a post doc the social gerontology group at the Aging Research Center
    (ARC). I defended my PhD thesis /Unequal tracks? Studies on work, retirement
    and health/ [1] in 2021.
    My main fields of interest are retirement, labour market participation,
    working environment, social inequalities in health, social determinants of
    health, and life course epidemiology. I have experience in data management
    and contemporary epidemiological methods for data analysis, including
    extensive use of longitudinal data sets and register data.
    I have planned, organized, and taught an undergraduate course called
    "Arbetsliv, åldrande och hälsa" (e. Working life, ageing and health) at the
    Public Health Department at Stockholm University for the past three years.

Undervisning

  • * Fall 2019: Arbetsliv, åldrande och hälsa [1](Working life, aging and
    health). I developed, managed, taught and finally examinated (together
    with Charlotta Nilsen) a course on basic level (7.5 credits) at
    the Department of Public Health Sciences in Stockholms University.
    * Co-supervising a Master student (spring 2020).
    * Fall 2020: Teaching the course Arbetsliv, åldrande och hälsa
    [2](Working life, aging and health, 7.5 credits) at the Department of
    Public Health Sciences in Stockholms University.
    * 2020: 1-hour lecture “The Demographic Shift” in the PhD course Public
    Health Implications of an Aging Population, at KI.
    * Fall 2021: Teaching the course Arbetsliv, åldrande och hälsa
    [3](Working life, aging and health, 7.5 credits) at the Department of
    Public Health Sciences in Stockholms University.
    [1] https://www.su.se/sok-kurser-och-program/ph09g0-1.424750
    [2] https://www.su.se/sok-kurser-och-program/ph09g0-1.424750
    [3] https://www.su.se/sok-kurser-och-program/ph09g0-1.424750

Artiklar

Alla övriga publikationer

Forskningsbidrag

  • Linking emotions and economics: Adversities in childhood and labour market participation
    Icelandic Centre for Research
    12 August 2024 - 12 August 2027
    Psychiatric disorders are a major concern in modern societies and the leading cause for economic inactivity and work disability, yet, little is known about the association between childhood adversities with later labour market participation and work disability. This is crucial to understand as factors that affect mental health start to develop early in life and influence education and employment opportunities in adulthood. There is evidence that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are strong determinants of emotional impairments and poor mental health throughout life. We aim to investigate the relevance of ACEs for employment trajectories, labour market participation and work disability over the life course. To do this we use a unique Icelandic dataset, the Stress-And-Gene-Analysis (SAGA) Cohort which was specifically designed for understanding the impact of trauma on women’s health and includes all women in Iceland (N=31,811) between 18-69 years. The linkage with income register from 1981 onwards, enables us to follow participants’ employment trajectories, including work disability, over time. This project will be the first to study the effects of trauma on employment and disability pensions in Iceland and will generate valuable knowledge for policy making – both in terms of prevention as well as buffering the impact of ACEs by highlighting high-risk populations that should be given priority access to subsidised interventions to maintain work ability

Anställningar

  • Post-doctotal researcher, The Centre of Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland, 2022-2027
  • Anknuten till Forskning, Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2026

Examina och utbildning

  • Medicine Doktorsexamen, Institutionen för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, Karolinska Institutet, 2021

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