Marjukka Mäkelä

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Primary fields of research

Meeting times, please email or call business address in Finland:
Marjukka.makela@thl.fi   
phone +358 29 524 7290
Phone: +45 353-37241
Phone (Secretary): +45 353-27960
Mobil: +358 40 526 7880 (Finland)
E-mail: m.makela@gpmed.ku.dk; marjukka.makela@thl.fi

Research topics

• Primary care
• Evidence based medicine
• Health technology assessment
• Upper respiratory tract infections
• Screening

Current research

• Assessment of various health technologies that are clinically relevant and important from policy point of view
• Implementation of clinical guidelines in health care
• Effects of screening on populations: cost-effectiveness, ethical and social effects
• Common respiratory tract infections

Teaching

• Postgraduate: Teaching in research methodology (diagnostic studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, health economics). Mentoring PhD students and other researchers
• Medical students: Teaching about evidence based health care and guidelines, 12. semester.
  Other activities

Other activities

• Research Professor, Finohta (Finnish Office for Health Technology Assessment) at THL (National institute for health and welfare) in Helsinki, Finland (http://www.thl.fi/fi_FI/web/fi/organisaatio/rakenne/yksikot/meka/finohta) or www.thl.fi
• Director, the Finnish Branch of the Nordic Cochrane Centre (http://www.cochrane.org/).
• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care)
• Member of the Steering Committee for EUnetHTA (http://www.eunethta.net/) European projekt developing tools and methods for health technology assessment
• Member of the Board, HTAi (Health Technology Assessment International)