Curriculum Vitae MIKAEL ROSTILA, PhD Centre for Health Equity Studies, CHESS Date of birth: February 4, 1977 Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS) Stockholm University / Karolinska Institutet 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: +46 8 16 44 16 and +46 70 779 98 94 Fax: +46 8 16 26 00 E-mail: mikael.rostila@chess.su.se Homepage: www.chess.su.se ACADEMIC DEGREES 2001 BSc in Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden 2003 MSc in Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden 2008 PhD in Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden (Supervisor: Professor Johan Fritzell, CHESS, Faculty opponent: Professor Ichiro Kawachi, Harvard University) 2011 Associate Professor of Sociology (Docent), Stockholm University, Sweden ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2002-2003 Research Assistant, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University 2003-2004 Research Assistant, Centre For Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet 2004-2008 Doctoral Candidate, Centre For Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet 2006-2008 Doctoral Candidate Position, Department of Sociology Stockholm University (SU) 2008- Researcher, Centre For Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet (85%) 2011- Researcher, Department of Sociology Stockholm University (SU) (15%) VISITING RESEARCH POSITIONS 2006 Harvard University, Department of Sociology, Cambridge MA (Invited by Professor Peter V. Marsden) 2010 Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human development and health, Boston MA (Invited by Professor Ichiro Kawachi)
2012 Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human development and health, Boston MA (Invited by Professor Ichiro Kawachi) RESEARCH GRANTS 2010-2011 Migrants social environment and health, Post-doctoral research grant, Swedish Council for Workinglife and Social Research (FAS), 1,360,000 SEK, PI Mikael Rostila 2012-2016 Work life and health among people with foreign background the effects of segregation, status incongruence, and adverse work environment, Swedish Research Council (VR), 5,015,000 SEK, PI Mikael Rostila CO-APPLICANT IN RESEARCH PROJECTS 2003-2008 Welfare states, welfare services, and welfare outcomes, Swedish Council for Workinglife and Social Research (FAS), PI Johan Fritzell 2007-2011 Social determinants of health Sweden-Brazil comparisons, The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), PI Johan Fritzell and Antonio Ponce de Leon 2009-2011 Migrants health and the facets of ethnic segregation, Swedish Research Council (VR), PI Johan Fritzell 2011-2016 ERC Starting Grant Individual life chances in social context A longitudinal multimethods perspective on social constraints and opportunities, European Research Comission (ERC), PI Jens Rydgren 2012-2014 Barn som anhöriga-hur många är det som berörs och vilka är konsekvenserna i ett livsloppsperspektiv?, National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), PI Anders Hjern 2013-2015 Social anpassning och hälsa hos flyktingar som anlänt till Sverige som tonåringar-vad betyder skolgång och mottagandekommun? (FAS), PI Anders Hjern GRANTS AND AWARDS 2005 Travel grant, RC19 annual conference in Chicago, FAS (12 800 SEK) 2005 Visiting scholarship at Harvard University: Social capital and health; individual and contextual effects and mechanisms, FAS (70 500 SEK) 2009 Nominated for best doctoral dissertation prize in 2008, faculty of social sciences, Stockholm University 2011 Awarded for exceptional efforts as an employee of Stockholm University by the principal of Stockholm University (pristagarmiddag) 2
PUBLICATIONS Articles in peer reviewed journals 1. Rostila, M. (2004) Vart tog det goda arbetet vägen?, Arbetsmarknad och Arbetsliv 10(3);173 186. 2. Rostila, M. (2007) Social Capital and Health in European Welfare Regimes a multilevel approach, Journal of European Social Policy 17(3); 223-239. 3. Rostila, M. (2008) The Swedish Labour market in the 1990:s: The Very Last of the Healthy Jobs?. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 36(2); 126-134. 4. Rostila, M. (2010) Birds of a Feather Flock Together and fall ill? Migrant Homophily and Health in Sweden, Sociology of Health and Illness 32(3); 382-399. 5. Rostila, M. and Saarela J. (2011) Time doesn t heal all wounds. Mortality following the death of a parent, Journal of Marriage and Family 73(1); 236-249. 6. Rostila, M. (2011) A resource-based theory of social capital for health research Can it help us to bridge the individual and the collective facet of the concept? Social Theory and Health 9(2); 109-129. 7. Rostila, M. (2011) The facets of social capital, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 41(3); 308-326. 8. Oliveira, A. J., Lopes, C. S., Monteiro Ponce de Leon, A., Rostila, M., Griep, R., Fahrstein, E. (2011) Social support and leisure-time physical activity: Results from the Pró- Saúde study, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 26;8:77.. 9. Rostila, M. and Saarela, J. and Kawachi, I. (2012) Mortality following the death of a child: Evidence from Swedish total population register data, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 66;927-933. 10. Rostila, M. Kölegård, M. and Fritzell, J. (2012) Income inequality and self-rated health in Stockholm, Sweden. A test of the income inequality hypothesis at two levels of aggregation, Social Science and Medicine 74(7);1091-1098. 11. Rostila, M. and Saarela, J. and Kawachi, I. (2012) The forgotten griever : Mortality subsequent to the death of a sibling, American Journal of Epidemiology 176(4);338-346. 12. Saarela J., Finnäs, F. and Rostila, M. (forthcoming) Family effects on mortality risks at adult ages: Lessons from Swedish population register data on siblings, Journal of Family Issues. 13. Rostila, M. and Saarela J. (forthcoming) Invited commentary: Birth order and suicide in a broader context, American Journal of Epidemiology. 14. Oliveira, A. J., Rostila, M., Lopes, C. S. and Monteiro Ponce de Leon, A. (forthcoming) The influence of social relationships on obesity: sex differences in a longitudinal study. Obesity 3
Books 15. Rostila, M. (2008) Healthy Bridges. Studies of social capital, welfare, and health. Doctoral dissertation in sociology, Stockholm: Health Equity Studies no. 10, 164 pages. 16. Rostila, M. and Toivanen, S. (2012) Den orättvisa hälsan. Socioekonomiska faktorers betydelse för hälsa och livsläng. Liber, Stockholm, 372 pages. 17. Rostila, M. (exp feb 2013) Social capital and health inequality in European welfare states. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 236 pages. Bookchapters 18. Rostila, M. (2007) Social capital and Health in the Swedish Welfare State, in J. Fritzell & O. Lundberg (eds.) Health Inequalities and Welfare Resources Continuity and change in Sweden. Policy Press, Bristol Pp. 157-178. 19. Rostila, M. (2012) Ensam är inte stark: Om sociala nätverk, socialt kapital och hälsa, in M. Rostila & S. Toivanen (eds.) Den orättvisa hälsan. Socioekonomiska faktorers betydelse för hälsa och livslängd. Liber, Stockholm. 20. Rostila, M. och Toivanen, S. (2012) Den orättvisa hälsan, i M. Rostila & S. Toivanen (red) Den orättvisa hälsan. Socioekonomiska faktorers betydelse för hälsa och livslängd. Liber, Stockholm. 21. Rostila, M. Hjern, A. (2012) Invandring och ojämlikhet i hälsa, in M. Rostila & S. Toivanen (eds.) Den orättvisa hälsan. Socioekonomiska faktorers betydelse för hälsa och livslängd. Liber, Stockholm. 22. Rostila, M. och Toivanen, S. (2012) Vägar till en rättvis hälsa, in M. Rostila & S. Toivanen (red) Den orättvisa hälsan. Socioekonomiska faktorers betydelse för hälsa och livslängd. Liber, Stockholm. 23. Rostila, M. (forthcoming) The social capital of welfare states and its significance for population health, in Kawachi, I., Takao, S. and Subramanian, S.V. (eds.) Global perspectives on social capital and health. Springer, New York. Other articles in Swedish 24. Rostila, M. och Saarela J. (2011) Att förlora en förälder dödar: Vården måste ta större ansvar även för anhöriga, Läkartidningen 14(108); 813. 25. Rostila, M. och Toivanen S. (2012) Medicinska framsteg inte tillräckligt för bättre hälsa, Dagens Arena. 4
Submitted articles 26. Rostila, M. and Saarela, J. and Kawachi, I. (2012) Fatal stroke after the death of a sibling: A nationwide follow-up study from Sweden. Submitted. 27. Manhica, H., Östh, J. and Rostila, M. (2012) Dynamics of labor force participation of African migrants in Sweden, 1995-2008. Submitted. 28. Rostila, M. and Fritzell, J. (2012) Mortality among specific groups of immigrants and their offspring in Sweden 1998-2006. Submitted. 29. Rostila, M., Almquist, Y., Östberg, V., Edling, C. and Rydgren, J. (2012) Network characteristics and risk of daily smoking among Swedish adolecents. Submitted. 30. Almquist, Y., Östberg, V., Rostila, M., Edling, C. and Rydgren, J. (2012) Friendship network characteristics and psychological well-being in late adolescence: Exploring differences by gender and gender composition. Submitted. 31. Rostila, M. and Saarela, J. and Kawachi, I. (2012) Myocardial infarction after the death of a sibling: A nationwide follow-up study from Sweden. Submitted. 32. Rostila, M. and Saarela, J. and Kawachi, I. (2012) Suicide after the death of a sibling: A nationwide follow-up study from Sweden. Submitted. 33. Rostila, M. and Saarela, J. and Kawachi, I. (2012) The psychosocial skeleton : Mortality following the the death of a sibling from suicide. Submitted. Manuscripts 34. Bacchus Hertzman, J., Rostila, M., Lager, A., and Fritzell, J. (2012) A systematic review of health inequalities in the Nordic welfare states by country of birth. 35. Oliveira, A. J. Lopes C. S., Saarela, J. and Rostila, M. (2012) The influence of bereavement on Body Mass Index: Results from a national Swedish survey 36. Rostila, M., Almquist, Y., Östberg, V., Edling, C. and Rydgren, J. (2012) Network characteristics and risk of overweight among Swedish adolecents. PRESENTATIONS (a selection) 2003 Doctoral Seminar, Helsinki. Title: Vart tog det god arbetet vägen?. 2004 The Swedish Sociological Association, Stockholm. Title: Vart tog det goda arbetet vägen?. 2004 ECSR summer conference, Trento. Title: Social Capital and Health in the Swedish Welfare State. 5
2004 CCWS/ESPAnet Young researchers conference, Alborg. Title: Social Capital and Health in the Swedish Welfare State. 2004 Doctoral Seminar, Copenhagen. Title: Social Capital and Health in the Swedish Welfare State. 2005 Doctoral Seminar, Stockholm. Title: Social Capital and Health in European Welfare Regimes. 2005 Aage Sorensen Memorial Conference, Harvard-Oxford-Stockholm, Cambridge. Title: Social Capital and Health in European Welfare Regimes. 2005 Re-theorizing Welfare States: Restructuring States, Restructuring Analysis (RC19 annual conference), Chicago. Title: Social Capital and Health in European Welfare Regimes. 2005 Assessing ten years of sociological research (ECSR annual conference), Paris, 25-26 November. Title: Social Capital and Health in European Welfare Regimes. 2006 Doctoral seminar at Department of Sociology of Harvard University. Title: Social Capital and Health in European Welfare Regimes. 2006 Invited seminar at Harvard School of Public Health. Title: Income Inequality and Health in the Swedish Welfare State. 2007 Social, cultural and economic determinants of health: international perspectives for global action (1 st conference of the journal Public Health), Lisbon, 9-11 May. Title: Income Inequality and Health in the Swedish Welfare State. 2008 Invited seminar at Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies, SULCIS. Title: Birds of a Feather Flock Together and fall ill? Migrant homophily and health in Sweden. 2008 The 1 st IMS/CHESS workshop: Health and Society, Rio de Janeiro, 8-10 December. Birds of a Feather Flock Together and fall ill? Migrant homophily and health in Sweden. 2009 Invited seminar at Aging Research Center, ARC, Karolinska Institutet. Title: Migrants social networks and health. 2009 Vision 2030 Framtidens seniorboende, MICASA. Title: Ensam är inte stark Om social gemenskap, social miljö, och hälsa. 2009 The 2 nd IMS/CHESS workshop: Health and Society, Rio de Janeiro, 7-9 December. Title: Time doesn t heal all wounds. Mortality following the death of a parent. 2010 Invited scholary lecture at Harvard School of Public Health. Title: Migrants social environment and health in Sweden 2011 Invited lecture at Karolinska Institutet, Solna. Title: Läker tiden alla sår? 2011 Invited lecture at Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge. Title: Läker tiden alla sår? 6
2011 American Public Health Association (APHA), annual meeting, Washington DC. 31 October-3 November. Title: Mortality differentials by immigrant group in Sweden: The contribution of socioeconomic status. 2011 The 3 rd IMS/CHESS workshop: Health and Society, Rio de Janeiro, 7-9 December. Title: Mortality differentials by immigrant groups in Sweden The contribution of socioeconomic position. 2011 Invited lecture at Centrum för klinisk forskning, Falun. Title: Läker tiden alla sår? 2012 Seminar at the National Board of Health and Welfare. Title: Hälsokonsekvenser av att förlora en förälder 2012 CEREN Research Seminar, University of Helsinki. Title: Migrants social environment and. Findings from two recent studies. 2012 Framtidsfokus, Sociala nätverk möjligheter och begränsningar, Institute for future studies. Title: Hälsokonsekvenser av sociala relationer och socialt kapital. 2012 Höstmötet konferens om välfärd och socialpolitik. Title: The psychological sceleton in the closet: Mortality after the death of a sibling from suicide. 2012 LIFEINCON seminar, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. Title: Network characteristics and daily smoking among young adults. REFREE ASSIGNMENTS American Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Journal of Marriage and Family, European Journal of Public Health, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Revista de Saúde Pública, Journal of Happiness Studies, International Journal of Social Welfare, BMC Public Health TEACHING EXPERIENCE Ongoing supervisor of PhD students 2012 Andrea Dunlavy Pedagogical courses 2007 UP1, University pedagogics for university teachers, 4.5 credits 2012 Supervision of Doctoral students, 4.5 credits 7
Undergraduate 2004 Teaching: Health and Society, tutoring of first term students writing term papers, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University (9 ECTS credits) 2005 Teaching: Health and Society, tutoring of first term students writing term papers, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University (9 ECTS credits) 2007/2008 Tutoring 3 bachelors theses 2007 Guestlecturer at the public health programme at Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University Postgraduate 2005 Course assistant, multilevel models, Institute for Future Studies 2008 Lecturer and co-director (together with Johan Fritzell) of the masters course Social stratification: Labour market, social policy and welfare states at CHESS, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet (15 ECTS credits) 2009 Guestlecturer at doctoral course Welfare States in changing Europe, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University 2009 Director of the masters course Social stratification and health at CHESS, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet (7.5 ECTS credits) 2009 Guestlecturer at the Psychology Program at Karolinska Institutet 2010 Tutoring 1 Master thesis 2011 Guestlecture at the masters course Welfare state, social policy and health. 2012 Tutoring 2 Master theses 2012 Eaxminer of (2) Master theses Other teaching experience 1996-1997 Basic military and leadership training as a platoon leader in the Swedish army at Svea Lifeguard 1997-1998 Sergeant in the Swedish army at Svea Lifeguard, instructing and teaching soldiers in basic military training, over 1700 hours of teaching and instruction 2010-present organizer of CHESS internal work seminar series 2012 External reviewer, thesis for doctor of philosophy, University of Southern Queensland 8
PROFESSIONAL PRESIDENCY AND MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS 2012-present Boardmember (elected staff representative), Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet 2012-present Boardmember (deputy) institutional board, Department of Sociology at Stockholm University 2011-present Member of the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2008 Representative for members of the unemployment fund for graduates in Sweden, AEA (elected by members of AEA) 2008-2010 Safety representative (substitute), Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University 2005 Vice president and treasurer, the doctoral council at Department of Sociology at Stockholm University 2005 Board member, institutional board (doctoral student representative), Department of Sociology at Stockholm University 2004-present Member of Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19) 2004-present Member of the Swedish Association of Behavioural Medicine 2004-present Member of The Network for European Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) MEDIA APPEARENCE (a selection) Morgonpasset, Swedish radio P3, Social contacts and health Tendens, Swedish radio P1, Unsolved crimes Dagens Nyheter, Trust is related to well-being Västerbottens Folkblad, Welfare causes trust Gomorron Sverige Loneliness and health Studio ett, P1, Swedish radio, Loneliness and health Arbeidsliv i Norden, Hard to export nordic trust SVT, Rapport Svår förlust kan förkorta livet The journal Vårdfokus Ökad dödlighet hos barn som förlorar en förälder Nerikes Allehanda. Loosing a parent is fatal 9
Memento Loosing a parent is fatal SR International, Swedish radio, Increased health differences among the population LO-tidningen Health A class issue Dagens ETC Highly educated live longer Kommunalarbetaren Unfair health Norran Increased inequalities in health and longevity SVT, Uutiset Studera länge om du vill bli gammal 10