Eero Haapala
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General description
I am a Senior Lecturer of Sports and Execise Medicine and a paediatric sports and exercise medicine researcher at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä. I also work for Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland.
Active JYU affiliations
- Open University, Part-Time Teacher
- Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, Senior Lecturer
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Part-Time Teacher, Ended
- Open University (University of Jyväskylä), Part-Time Teacher, Ended
Research interests
My research interests include topics related to health and well being in the paediatric age-group. My main interest is in the relationships between physical activity, dietary factors, fitness, fatness, sleep, metabolic syndrome, and brain health among children and adolescents.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Projects as Principal investigator
- Brain Effects of Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children and adolescents
- Juho Vainio Foundation
Projects as Team Member
- Sedentary behavior and physical activity in school-aged children: objectively measured sedentary time and associations with muscle
inactivity and activity.- Juutinen, Taija
- Research Council of Finland
Publications and other outputs
