Alexandra Karoline Saasen Havdahl
Center Director
Responsibilities
Alexandra Havdahl is Centre Director of the PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Since 2007, she has worked with data collection and research on autism, neurodevelopment and mental health in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), a general population pregnancy cohort run by the NIPH. Havdahl participates in several international projects, including as coordinator of the MoBa contribution to several Psychiatric Genomics Consortium working groups, and as member of the Lancet Commission on the Future of Care and Clinical Research in Autism.
Projects and publications
- Covid-19 and impact on mental health: a longitudinal, multi-national study (C-Me).
- Developmental profiles and co-occurring difficulties in children with autism spectrum conditions in Norway
- Effekter av foreldres utdanning på barns helse og utdanning
- Forståelse av de genetiske faktorene som spiller en rolle for nevropsykologisk utvikling
- Intergenerational Transmission of Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathological Spectra: A Genome-Wide Complex Trait Study
- Kjønnshormoner i svangerskapet og barns utvikling
- Nevroutviklingskaskader og resiliens i kontekst av familiemiljøet
- Parenthood, childlessness and mental health in times of falling fertility
- Post-pandemic mental health: Risk and resilience in young people (covidmentYOUNG)
- PsychGen -"Genetisk epidemiologistudier med fokus på nevroutvikling og psykisk helse".
- S-03228a Gen-miljø samspill i en fødselskohort for studier av autisme spekter forstyrrelser. (Gene-Environment interactions in an Autism Birh Cohort). ABC-studien