Ayako Hiyoshi Gästforskare

Ayako Hiyoshi is epidemiologist and an associate professor (docent in Swedish). She obtained PhD in epidemiology in 2013 from University College London, United Kingdom. Since then, she has been working at the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Örebro University Hospital and Örebro University. She is affiliated to the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, as a researcher. Her research interest includes life-course influences of socioeconomic, psychological and living-environmental factors on poor health later in life. Earlier she was supported by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte, 2014-2128) and currently leads a project focusing on life events in family and subsequent work and health in family members (Forte 2019-01236) using large register-linkage data material. 

She is involved in projects located at Stockholm University: research into bereavement (VR, PI Prof Mikael Rostila), disability and cancer (Forte, PI Dr Alessandra Grotta), working life after retirement age (Riksbanken, PI Dr Loretta Platts).

She is also a honorary senior research fellow at University College London, the UK, and visiting associate professor at Osaka University, Japan.