Dr. Kosola is a specialist in general practice with special competence in adolescent medicine and Associate Professor of Adolescent Medicine at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

After defending her doctoral dissertation, she spent a year in 2015-2016 as a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Adolescent Health in Melbourne, Australia, under the supervision of professors Susan Sawyer and George Patton. Dr Kosola currently works as Research Director at the Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County in Finland.

As a clinician, Dr Kosola has ten years of experience as a school physician.

Her research focuses on school health services, transition of care from pediatric to adult settings, adolescent traffic accidents, and associations of social media with adolescent wellbeing. She has over 100 scientific publications and she has authored a book on “cutting the chains” of digital addiction.

Dr Kosola is a member of the International Association for Adolescent Health and the Steering Committee for Child and Adolescent Public Health of the European Public Health Association and a consultant for the WHO Regional Office for Europe. She frequently participates in public discussions on issues related to adolescent health and wellbeing.