Ilona Grünberger Professor

Professor i forskning om ojämlikhet i hälsa med folkhälsovetenskaplig/medicinsk inriktning (sedan 2002). Tidigare Clinical Senior Lecturer i epidemiologi vid London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Storbritannien (1997-2002).

Gästprofessor i social epidemiologi med inriktning mot barn och ungdomar vid Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap, Karolinska Institutet (2015-2019), anknuten till forskning, Karolinska Institutet (2020-2021).

Ilonas forskning handlar främst om ojämlikheter i hälsa ur ett livsloppsperspektiv och hur utvecklingen under tidiga barnaår påverkar hälsa senare i livet.

Publikationer (urval):

Boldis BV, Grünberger I, Helgertz J, Cederström A. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Labor Market Attachment: Sequence Analysis. Int J Public Health. 2025 Apr 14;70:1607889. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2025.1607889.

Wu YT, Gnanapragasam S, Sanchez-Niubo A, Hossin MZ, Grünberger I, Koskinen S, Cooper R, Prina M. Childhood socioeconomic position and healthy ageing: results from five harmonised cohort studies in the ATHLOS consortium. BMJ Public Health. 2025 Feb 26;3(1):e001590. doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001590.

Houweling TAJ, Grünberger I. Intergenerational transmission of health inequalities: research agenda for a life course approach to socioeconomic inequalities in health. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2024 Jul 11:jech-2022-220163.

Houweling TAJ, Grünberger I. Intergenerational transmission of health inequalities: towards a life course approach to socioeconomic inequalities in health - a review. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2024 Jul 2:jech-2022-220162.

Boldis BV, Grünberger I, Cederström A, Björk J, Nilsson A, Helgertz J. Comorbidities in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a sibling study. BMC Womens Health. 2024 Apr 5;24(1):221. doi: 10.1186/s12905-024-03028-9.

Hossin MZ, Heshmati A, Koupil I, Goodman A, Mishra GD. Latent class trajectories of socioeconomic position over four time points and mortality: the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study. Eur J Public Health. 2022 Aug 1;32(4):522-527. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac060.

Hossin MZ, Falkstedt D, Allebeck P, Mishra G, Koupil I. Early life programming of adult ischemic heart disease within and across generations: The role of the socioeconomic context. Soc Sci Med. 2021 Apr;275:113811. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113811.

Gondek D, Ploubidis GB, Hossin MZ, Gao M, Bann D, Koupil I. Inequality in hospitalization due to non-communicable diseases in Sweden: Age-cohort analysis of the Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study. SSM Popul Health. 2021 Jan 21;13:100741. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100741.

Sanchez-Niubo A, Forero CG, Wu YT, Giné-Vázquez I, Prina M, De La Fuente J, Daskalopoulou C, Critselis E, De La Torre-Luque A, Panagiotakos D, Arndt H, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Bayes-Marin I, Bickenbach J, Bobak M, Caballero FF, Chatterji S, Egea-Cortés L, García-Esquinas E, Leonardi M, Koskinen S, Koupil I, Mellor-Marsá B, Olaya B, Pająk A, Prince M, Raggi A, Rodríguez-Artalejo F, Sanderson W, Scherbov S, Tamosiunas A, Tobias-Adamczyk B, Tyrovolas S, Haro JM; ATHLOS Consortium. Development of a common scale for measuring healthy ageing across the world: results from the ATHLOS consortium. Int J Epidemiol. 2021 Jul 9;50(3):880-892. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa236.

Tyrovolas S, Panaretos D, Daskalopoulou C, Gine-Vazquez I, Niubo AS, Olaya B, Bobak M, Prince M, Prina M, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Caballero FF, Garcia-Esquinas E, Holger A, Scherbov S, Sanderson W, Gheno I, Koupil I, Bickenbach J, Chatterji S, Koskinen S, Raggi A, Pajak A, Tobiasz-Adamczyk B, Haro JM, Panagiotakos D. Alcohol Drinking and Health in Ageing: A Global Scale Analysis of Older Individual Data through the Harmonised Dataset of ATHLOS. Nutrients. 2020 Jun 11;12(6):1746. doi: 10.3390/nu12061746.

Gao M, Koupil I, Sjöqvist H, Karlsson H, Lalitkumar S, Dalman C, Kosidou K. Psychiatric comorbidity among women with endometriosis: nationwide cohort study in Sweden. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Sep;223(3):415.e1-415.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2020.02.033.

Wu YT, Daskalopoulou C, Muniz Terrera G, Sanchez Niubo A, Rodríguez-Artalejo F, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Bobak M, Caballero FF, de la Fuente J, de la Torre-Luque A, García-Esquinas E, Haro JM, Koskinen S, Koupil I, Leonardi M, Pajak A, Panagiotakos D, Stefler D, Tobias-Adamczyk B, Prince M, Prina AM; ATHLOS consortium. Education and wealth inequalities in healthy ageing in eight harmonised cohorts in the ATHLOS consortium: a population-based study. Lancet Public Health. 2020 Jul;5(7):e386-e394. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30077-3.

Hossin MZ, Björk J, Koupil I. Early-life social and health determinats of adult socioeconoic position: associations ad trends across generations. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2020 May;74(5):412-420. doi: 10.1136/jech-2019-213209. 

Gao M, Allebeck P, Mishra GD, Koupil I. Developmental origins of endometriosis: a Swedish cohort study. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2019 Jan 19. pii: jech-2018-211811. doi: 10.1136/jech-2018-211811.

Gao M, Goodman A, Mishra G, Koupil I. Associations of birth characteristics with perimenopausal disorders: a prospective cohort study. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2018 Oct 9:1-7. doi: 10.1017/S204017441800065X.

Holowko N, Jones M, Tooth L, Koupil I, Mishra GD. Socioeconomic Position and Reproduction: Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. Matern Child Health J. 2018 Dec;22(12):1713-1724. doi: 10.1007/s10995-018-2567-1.

Juárez SP, Goodman A, Koupil I. From cradle to grave: tracking socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in a cohort of 11 868 men and women born in Uppsala, Sweden, 1915-1929. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2016 Jun;70(6):569-75. doi: 10.1136/jech-2015-206547.

Chaparro MP, Koupil I. The impact of parental educational trajectories on their adult offspring's overweight/obesity status: a study of three generations of Swedish men and women. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Nov;120:199-207. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.024.

Koupil I, Tooth L, Heshmati A, Mishra G. Social patterning of overeating, binge eating, compensatory behaviours and symptoms of bulimia nervosa in young adult women: results from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. Public Health Nutr. 2016;19:3158-3168.

Goodman A, Heshmati A, Koupil I. Family history of education predicts eating disorders across multiple generations among 2 million Swedish males and females. PLoS One. 2014 Aug 27;9(8):e106475. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106475.

Mishra GD, Chiesa F, Goodman A, De Stavola B, Koupil I. Socio-economic position over the life course and all-cause, and circulatory diseases mortality at age 50-87 years: results from a Swedish birth cohort. Eur J Epidemiol. 2013 Feb;28(2):139-47. doi: 10.1007/s10654-013-9777-z

Goodman A, Koupil I, Lawson DW. Low fertility increases descendant socioeconomic position but reduces long-term fitness in a modern post-industrial society.

Proc Biol Sci. 2012 Nov 7;279(1746):4342-51.

De Stavola BL, Leon DA, Koupil I. Intergenerational correlations in size at birth and the contribution of environmental factors: The Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study, Sweden, 1915-2002. Am J Epidemiol 2011;174:52-62.

Koupil I, Goodman A. Health Equity: A life course approach. Public Service Review: European Union 2011; 22:382-3.

Goodman A, Gisselmann M, Koupil I. Birth outcomes and early-life social characteristics predict unequal educational outcomes: consistency across Swedish cohorts born 1915-1929 and 1973-1980. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 2010:1:317-338.

Manor O, Koupil I. Birth weight of infants and mortality in their parents and grandparents: the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study. Int J Epidemiol. 2010;39:1264-1276.

Goodman A, Koupil I. Social and biological determinants of reproductive success in Swedish males and females born 1915-1929.  Evolution And Human Behavior 2009;30:329-341.

Koupil I. The Uppsala studies on developmental origins of health and disease.

J Internal Medicine 2007;261:426-436.