Professor Elina Hypponen

Professor Hyppönen is the Director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the University of South Australia. She was recruited to the UniSA as the Professor in Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology in 2013, following 12 years at the University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (London, UK).

She is a NHMRC Leadership (L2) Investigator and holds appointments as a Senior Principal Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and as an Adjunct Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Tampere, Finland. Professor Hyppönen has an interdisciplinary academic background, with academic qualifications in epidemiology, medical statistics, nutrition and public health. Professor Hyppönen has a H-factor of 90, and her work has been cited over 51,000 times.  She has authored more than 230 high-profile refereed publications and several book chapters. She leads the Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology group which has a focus on using genetic tools to inform on dietary and lifestyle guidelines for optimal health. She has a long-term research interest in life-course and intergenerational epidemiology, and an extensive track record in gene and risk factor discovery. Her current interests are related to methods of causal analyses, machine learning, and implementing systems epidemiology approaches to establish effective strategies for prediction and prevention of chronic diseases.  

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy University of Tampere

• Master of Science (Health Sciences) University of Kuopio, Finland

• Master of Science (Medical Statistics) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine