Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Jukka-Pekka (JP) Onnela is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health. He is interested in a broad range of theoretical and applied problems in network science. His current research focuses on statistical and mathematical analysis and modeling of social networks and their connection to human health; development of metrics and methods for network analysis; network theory; and online social systems and social media. Prior to joining Biostatistics, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the HNL. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2008 to 2009, and before that held a Junior Research Fellowship at Oxford University for two years. He obtained his doctorate at the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 2006, where his dissertation received the university’s Dissertation of the Year Award.

Recent Publications

• “Patient-Sharing Networks of Physicians and Healthcare Utilization and Spending Among Medicare Beneficiaries,” JAMA Internal Medicine, Jan 2018
• “Polio vaccine hesitancy in the networks and neighborhoods of Malegaon, India,” Social Science & Medicine, Feb 2016
• “Spreading Paths in Partially Observed Social Networks,” Physical Review E, Mar 2012