CURRICULUM VITAE (Short version)                                      
Honkasalo, Marja-Liisa Lahja, M.D., Ph.D.                                   
Marital status: married, 3 children
Current academic position: 

Professor in Health and Society, University of Linköping      January 1, 2006 -
- full time                                                                                  November 1, 2007
Finnish (mother language), Swedish (fluent), English (fluent), Italian (average), German (average), French (reading only)
Education and training
– MD, University of Helsinki	July 30, 1971
– Ph.D. dissertation approved at the University of Helsinki
Faculty of Medicine	April 16, 1988
– Doctor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki
Faculty of Medicine	May 17, 1988
– Docent in Social Medicine, University of Tampere	December 7, 1992
– Docent in Medical Anthropology, University of Helsinki	February 28, 1996
– Qualified for Associate Professorship in Medical Sociology
University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine 	December 15, 1992
– Appointed to a Professorship of  Women’s Studies,
University of Jyväskylä 	May 24, 1997
(Did not take up the position, a letter to President)                                 June 30, 1997 
-- Qualified for Minna Canth Academy Professorship	1999
-- Listed as the second best candidate for the Minna Canth Academy Professorship 2003       
Previous professional appointments
- Assistant physician
 Ylitornio  Health Center, Rovaniemi Central Hospital                  1971 –1972
  Helsinki University Hospital                                                         1972
  Inst. Occupational Health                                                              1973
  Lappeenranta Health Center                                                          1975 - 1976              
Research fellow
 Finnish Foundation for Studies of Alcohol                                   1979 - 1984
– Research assistant, Academy of Finland                                     1984 -1986
– Assistant professor in public health
University of Helsinki                                                                    1987 - 92 and 1992 - 96
– Associate Professor in Medical Sociology (acting)                     1992 -1993
– Professor in Social Medicine (acting), 
University of Tampere                                                                    fall term 1993 
– Assistant Professor in Social Medicine (acting)
University of Tampere                                                                    fall term 1994 
and University of Helsinki                                                              1995 - 1996
– Visiting scholar
 Harvard Medical School, Dept. of  Social Medicine                     Aug 1,1996 - Dec 31, 1997
– Professor in Community Medicine, with Special Focus on
Medical Anthropology, Gothenburg, Sweden,
Nordic School of Public Health                                                     Jan 1, 1998 - July 31, 1999
– Principal teacher and person in charge of Minor Program in Medical Anthropology University of Helsinki, Department for the Studies of Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Faculty of Medicine                                                                                        1999 –
- Adjunct Professor  in Community Medicine, with special focus on Medical Anthropology, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden                                August 1,1999 - 2002                                                                                                                                        
Academy Senior  Fellow, 
Academy of Finland                                                                              August 1,1999 -  July 31,2004
- Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies                         August 2004 – October 2007
- Professor II in Gender Studies in Medicine
University of Oslo                                                                              January 1, 2005 -  2007

Docent: Docent in Public Health, University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine 1992.
Docent in Medical anthropology, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine 1996.
Docent in Sociology of Health, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Political Science  2008.   

Ph.D. supervision: Currently (4) doctoral students at the University of Helsinki: Juha Soivio MA, Anna Leppo MSc., Salome Tuomaala MA; University of  Tampere  and in Graduate School of Public Health (1) Annika Launiala (DPPH), at the University of Linköping (2): Haris Agic, Eleonor Antelius (second supervisor).  

External Reviewer of Ph.D. theses: University of Helsinki 1998, 2002, 2005; Tampere 1997, 1999 (three times), 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008; Jyväskylä 1997 (twice), 2002; University of Joensuu 2010, University of Stockholm 2000, University of Aarhus 2002.

External reviewer of  docentships: University of Rovaniemi 2000 (women’s studies); University of Helsinki 2003, 2010 (social policy); University of Jyväskylä 2005 (women’s studies, social policy), Åbo Akademi 2007 (women’s studies, sociology), University of Tampere 2005, 2008 (sociology), University of Lund 2008 (medical antropology).

External rewiever of professorship:
Jennifer Bullington,  University of Stockholm/Ersta (psychosomatic medicine)

Reviewer of manuscripts in international journals
Social Science & Medicine, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Body and Society, Health, Risk&Society, Ethnos, Sygdom og Samhälle; Science, Technology and Human Values.

International editor
Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Opponent at doctoral dissertations: University of Jyväskylä 1996 (women’s studies, social policy); University of Tampere 1997 (women’s studies, sociology); 1999 twice  (women’s studies, social psychology; social policy); 2002 (sociology); University of Stockholm 2000 (anthropology, women’s studies); University of Aarhus 2002 (anthropology), University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine 2004 (social medicine),  University of Uppsala Department of Social Anthropology (gender studies, anthropology) 2006, University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine (anthropology) 2006, University of Oslo (health sciences) 2006. University of Tromsö (Helsefag) 2009, University of Helsinki (sociology) 2009.

Own Ph.D. students who have graduated: Matti Hakkola 1997 (social medicine) University of Helsinki; Terhi Utriainen 1999 (comparative religion, women’s studies) University of Helsinki; Birgitta Hedelin 2000 (public health) Nordic School of Public Health; Hanna Putkonen 2003 (psychiatry), University of Helsinki; Marja Tiilikainen 2003 (comparative religion) University of Helsinki, Evamarita Rinne, University of Jyväskylä (social policy, anthropology), 2005 Hanna-Mari Hilden,  University of Helsinki (medical ethics), 2007 Susanne Ådahl, University of Helsinki (social anthropology), Salome Tuomaala (comparative religion) 2010, Annika Launiala (cultural anthropology) 2010.

Member of the Board of External Examinator: Dissertation at the Luleå University of Technology 1999; Nordic School of Public Health 2000, University of  Oslo 2006, University of Linköping 2008, 2010.

International teaching activities: Harvard University: a graduate course “Culture and chronic pain” 1997; University Amsterdam: Medical Anthropology Master Program, the module: Anthropology of Chronic Illness 1998, 1999, 2000,  2002; Professorship in The Nordic School of Public Health 1998 - 1999; Adjunct Professorship in Community medicine 1999 - 2002; University of Umea, Sweden “Depression and Gender” 2002, 2003; Professoressa visitanta, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza 2002 –2003; Invited to a Guest Professorship in Medical Anthropology at University of Linköping (Theme: Health), fall term 2004, University of Oslo, Center for Gender Research, Professor II, Professor in Health and Society (medical anthropology).  

International conferences, person in charge (a selection):
The Nordic Network of Medical Anthropology ‘Suffering and the ways of being human’ Mekrijärvi (2002): ‘Medical Anthropology at Home in Europe’ Seili (2006); “Thought, practice and judgment” – Hannah Arendt 100 year anniversary conference , University of Helsinki (2006); “Culture, Suicide and the Human Condition”,  with The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2008), “Agency and Limits of Choice”, with the Network of Humanistic Health Studies and University of Linköping 2009. 

International conferences with a paper presentation (a selection): American Anthropological Association 1993, 1994, 1996, 2004, 2008; European Association of Social Anthropologists 2002, 2004, 2006; British Sociological Association 2006, Nordic Network of Medical Anthropology 1997, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009 (also the person of charge), Medical Anthropology at Home in Europe 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006 (also the person of charge).

Research projects: Person in charge of the following projects: 1) Pain, Suffering, and Significance 1994, 1996-1999 (Academy of Finland), Ph.D. student: Terhi Utriainen; 2) Expressions of Suffering. Ethnographies of contemporary illness experience, 1999-2004 ( Academy of Finland) Ph.D students: Juha Soivio, Marja Tiilikainen, Salome Tuomaala, post docs: Terhi Utriainen Vilma Hänninen, 2) Changes in the population, changes in distress – challenges to Finnish health care 2004-2007 (Academy of Finland,  Health Services Research Programme) PhD students: Anna Leppo and Mulki Mölsä, post doc Marja Tiilikainen, 3) University of Helsinki, a three-year research project, Ph. Student: Salome Tuomaala, 4) Vetenskapsrådet, together with Professor Barbro Wijma 2007 -2009, 5) Medical technology, illness, and the body (University of Linköping 2007 -), 6) Figures of Touch (Academy of Finland, together with Professor Harri Laakso, Dr. Mika Salo et.al; University of Art and Design, Finnish Theatre Academy).    7) Heartscapes – the Swedish Heart and its Vicissitudes, (together with University of Stockholm, Linköping, Lund and Helsinki) funding applied  2009.

Other: Member of  Swedish Council of Research 2008 –

Awards: American Anthropological Association: The Steve Polgar Professional Prize for the best published article 2009.