Currently I am investigating the association between climate change and mental health and health-related behaviors as well as possible vulnerabilities in these associations in Swedish and Finnish context. This work is funded by FORMAS. Climate change has increased temperatures in Scandinavian countries. Changes in winter temperatures have caused increased rainfall and decreased snowfall. Moreover, increased cloudiness has reduced the amount of solar radiation reducing the daylight exposure in already dark winters. Potential mental health effects of climate change have been stressed recently, however, the effects of reduced daylight during winter months on mental health have not been studied in Sweden. In this project, we are adressing these gaps. This work is in collaboration with Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, and Finnish Meteorological Institute.

In my previous work at Stockholm University, I was involved in a project where I examined how the environmental characteristics of individual’s home and workplace separately and together were associated with different health behaviours, and whether the distance between home and workplace was associated with different health behaviours. This project was funded by FORTE.

Below are my publications with other institutes affliation

Auriba Raza, Mo Wang, Jurgita Narusyte, Pia Svedberg, and Annina Ropponen. Trajectories of sustainable working life in nine Swedish residential regions: a longitudinal twin cohort study. Journal of Occupational Health, May 2023.

Auriba Raza, Linda L. Magnusson Hanson, Hugo Westerlund, Pia Mäkelä, Jaana I. Halonen. Access to alcohol outlets from home and work in Sweden: longitudinal associations with problem drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 84(1), 37–44 (2023).

Mo Wang, Auriba Raza, Jurgita Narusyte, Karri Silventoinen, Petri Böckerman, Pia Svedberg, and Annina Ropponen. Life events as predictors of unsustainable working life trajectories from a life course perspective, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 32, Issue Supplement_3, October 2022.

Annina Ropponen, Mo Wang, Auriba Raza, Jurgita Narusyte, and Pia Svedberg. (2022). Night Work and Sustainable Working Life—A Prospective Trajectory Analysis of Swedish Twins. Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19, 10857.

Auriba Raza, Marcus Dahlquist, Martin Jonsson, Jacob Hollenberg, Leif Svensson, Tomas Lind, & Petter L.S. Ljungman. (2019). Ozone and Cardiac Arrest: The Role of Previous Hospitalizations. Environmental Pollution, 245, February 2019, 1-8.

Auriba Raza, Marcus Dahlquist, Tomas Lind, & Petter Ljungman. (2018). Susceptibility to Short-term Ozone Exposure and Cardiovascular and Respiratory Mortality by Previous Hospitalizations. Environmental Health, 17(1):37.

Getahun Bero Bedada, Auriba Raza, Bertil Forsberg, Tomas Lind, Petter Ljungman, Göran Pershagen, & Tom Bellander. (2016). Short-term exposure to ozone and mortality in subjects with and without previous cardiovascular disease. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 27(5), 663-669.

Marcus Dahlquist, Auriba Raza, Getahun Bero-Bedada, Jacob Hollenberg, Tomas Lind, Nicola Orsini, Bengt Sjögren, Leif Svensson, & Petter L. Ljungman. (2016). Short-term departures from an optimum ambient temperature are associated with increased risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. International journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 219(4-5), 389-397.

Auriba Raza, Tom Bellander, Getahun Bero-Bedada, Marcus Dahlquist, Jacob Hollenberg, Martin Jonsson, Tomas Lind, Mårten Rosenqvist, Leif Svensson, & Petter L.S. Ljungman. (2014). Short-term effects of air pollution and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. European Heart Journal, 35(13), 861-868.

Auriba Raza, Iftikhar A. Raja, & Shahid Raza. (2012). Land-use Change Analysis of District Abbottabad Pakistan: Taking Advantage of GIS and Remote Sensing. Science Vision, 18(1&2).