Emily Q. Ahonen

Emily Q. Ahonen, PhD, MPH

Languages spoken: Catalan, Spanish, English

Dr. Ahonen's work focuses on intertwined determinants of population health inequity and their broader legal, economic, political and social drivers with the aim to illuminate places where intervention is likely to promote greater health equity. At present, these primarily include conditions of employment and work, and the ways in which societal power imbalances result in employment and work of varying quality. Related foci are on housing and migration processes.

Education History

Undergraduate University of Michigan
 BA
Graduate Training Universitat Pompeu Fabra
 MPH
Doctoral Training Universitat Pompeu Fabra
 PhD
Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Illinois at Chicago
 Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Gunn V, Håkansta C, Vignola E, Matilla-Santander N, Kreshpaj B, Wegman DH, Hogstedt C, Ahonen EQ, Muntaner C, Baron S, Bodin T, Precarious Work Research (PWR) Group (2021). Initiatives addressing precarious employment and its effects on workers' health and well-being: a protocol for a systematic review. Systematic reviews, 10(1), 195.
  2. Matilla-Santander N, Ahonen E, Albin M, Baron S, Bolíbar M, Bosmans K, Burström B, Cuervo I, Davis L, Gunn V, Håkansta C, Hemmingsson T, Hogstedt C, Jonsson J, Julià M, Kjellberg K, Kreshpaj B, Lewchuk W, Muntaner C, O'Campo P, Orellana C, Östergren PO, Padrosa E, Ruiz ME, Vanroelen C, Vignola E, Vives A, Wegman DH, Bodin T, All Members of the PWR Study Consortium (2021). COVID-19 and Precarious Employment: Consequences of the Evolving Crisis. International journal of health services, 51(2), 226-228.
  3. Ahonen EQ, Fujishiro (2020). Life-course and population health perspectives to fill gaps in migrant health research. Mondi migranti, 2020(3), 9-20.
  4. Winkler MR, Telke S, Ahonen EQ, Crane MM, Mason SM, Neumark-Sztainer (2020). Constrained choices: Combined influences of work, social circumstances, and social location on time-dependent health behaviors. SSM - population health, 11, 100562.
  5. Ahonen EQ, Fujishiro K, Cunningham T, Flynn (2018). Work as an Inclusive Part of Population Health Inequities Research and Prevention. American journal of public health, 108(3), 306-311.
  6. Newman SM, Keefe RF, Brooks RH, Ahonen EQ, Wempe A (2018). Human Factors Affecting Logging Injury Incidents in Idaho and the Potential for Real-Time Location-Sharing Technology to Improve Safety. Safety (Basel, Switzerland), 4(4), 43.
  7. Watson DP, Ahonen EQ, Shuman V, Brown M, Tsemberis S, Huynh P, Ouyang F, Xu (2018). The housing first technical assistance and training (HFTAT) implementation strategy: outcomes from a mixed methods study of three programs. Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy, 13(1), 32.
  8. Ahonen EQ, Watson DP, Adams EL, McGuire (2017). Alpha test results for a Housing First eLearning strategy: the value of multiple qualitative methods for intervention design. Pilot and feasibility studies, 3, 46.
  9. Ahonen EQ, Lacey S (2017). Undergraduate Environmental Public Health Education. New solutions, 27(1), 107-123.
  10. Watson DP, Young J, Ahonen E, Xu H, Henderson M, Shuman V, Tolliver (2014). Development and testing of an implementation strategy for a complex housing intervention: protocol for a mixed methods study. Implementation science, 9, 138.
  11. Jacobs DE, Ahonen E, Dixon SL, Dorevitch S, Breysse J, Smith J, Evens A, Dobrez D, Isaacson M, Murphy C, Conroy L, Levavi (2015). Moving into green healthy housing. Journal of public health management and practice, 21(4), 345-54.
  12. Ahonen EQ, Zanoni J, Forst L, Ochsner M, Kimmel L, Martino C, Ringholm E, Rodríguez E, Kader A, Sokas (2013). Evaluating goals in worker health protection using a participatory design and an evaluation checklist. New solutions, 23(4), 537-60.
  13. Forst L, Ahonen E, Zanoni J, Holloway-Beth A, Oschner M, Kimmel L, Martino C, Rodriguez E, Kader A, Ringholm E, Sokas (2013). More than training: Community-based participatory research to reduce injuries among hispanic construction workers. American journal of industrial medicine, 56(8), 827-37.
  14. Porthé V, Ahonen E, Vázquez ML, Pope C, Agudelo AA, García AM, Amable M, Benavides FG, Benach J, ITSAL Project (2010). Extending a model of precarious employment: A qualitative study of immigrant workers in Spain. American journal of industrial medicine, 53(4), 417-24.
  15. Ahonen EQ, López-Jacob MJ, Vázquez ML, Porthé V, Gil-González D, García AM, Ruiz-Frutos C, Benach J, Benavides FG, ITSAL Project (2010). Invisible work, unseen hazards: The health of women immigrant household service workers in Spain. American journal of industrial medicine, 53(4), 405-16.
  16. Porthé V, Benavides FG, Vázquez ML, Ruiz-Frutos C, García AM, Ahonen E, Agudelo-Suárez AA, Benach J, por el proyecto ITSAL (2009). [Precarious employment in undocumented immigrants in Spain and its relationship with health]. Gaceta sanitaria, 23 Suppl 1, 107-14.
  17. Ahonen EQ, Porthé V, Vázquez ML, García AM, López-Jacob MJ, Ruiz-Frutos C, Ronda-Pérez E, Benach J, Benavides FG, ITSAL Project (2009). A qualitative study about immigrant workers' perceptions of their working conditions in Spain. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 63(11), 936-42.
  18. García AM, López-Jacob MJ, Agudelo-Suárez AA, Ruiz-Frutos C, Ahonen EQ, Porthé V, Proyecto ITSAL (2009). [Occupational health of immigrant workers in Spain [ITSAL Project]: key informants survey]. Gaceta sanitaria, 23(2), 91-7.
  19. Benavides FG, Ahonen EQ, Bosch (2008). [Risk of occupational injury in foreign workers in Spain [2003 and 2004]]. Gaceta sanitaria, 22(1), 44-7.
  20. López-Jacob MJ, Ahonen E, García AM, Gil A, Benavides F (2008). [Occupational injury in foreign workers by economic activity and autonomous community (Spain 2005)]. Revista espanola de salud publica, 82(2), 179-87.
  21. Ahonen EQ, Nebot M, Giménez (2007). Negative mood states and related factors in a sample of adolescent secondary-school students in Barcelona (Spain). Gaceta sanitaria, 21(1), 43-52.
  22. Ahonen EQ, Benavides F (2006). Risk of fatal and non-fatal occupational injury in foreign workers in Spain. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 60(5), 424-6.
  23. Ahonen EQ, Benavides F (2017). Injury at work and migrant workers: a priority for a global agenda in occupational health. Occupational and environmental medicine, 74(4), 231-232.
  24. Fujishiro K, Ahonen EQ, Winkler (2022). Investigating Employment Quality for Population Health and Health Equity: A Perspective of Power. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(16),
  25. Gunn V, Vives A, Zaupa A, Hernando-Rodriguez JC, Julià M, Kvart S, Lewchuk W, Padrosa E, Vos MP, Ahonen EQ, Baron S, Bosmans K, Davis L, Díaz I, Matilla-Santander N, Muntaner C, O'Campo P, Östergren PO, Vanroelen C, Vignola EF, Bodin (2022). Non-Standard Employment and Unemployment during the COVID-19 Crisis: Economic and Health Findings from a Six-Country Survey Study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(10),
  26. Fujishiro K, Ahonen EQ, Winkler (2021). Poor-quality employment and health: How a welfare regime typology with a gender lens Illuminates a different work-health relationship for men and women. Social science & medicine (1982), 291, 114484.
  27. Fujishiro K, Ahonen EQ, Gimeno Ruiz de Porras D, Chen IC, Benavides F (2021). Sociopolitical values and social institutions: Studying work and health equity through the lens of political economy. SSM - population health, 14, 100787.

Review

  1. Ahonen EQ, Benavides FG, Benach (2007). Immigrant populations, work and health--a systematic literature review. Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 33(2), 96-104.
  2. Gunn V, Kreshpaj B, Matilla-Santander N, Vignola EF, Wegman DH, Hogstedt C, Ahonen EQ, Bodin T, Orellana C, Baron S, Muntaner C, O'Campo P, Albin M, Håkansta (2022). Initiatives Addressing Precarious Employment and Its Effects on Workers' Health and Well-Being: A Systematic Review. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(4),
  3. Hajat A, Andrea SB, Oddo VM, Winkler MR, Ahonen E (2023). Ramifications of Precarious Employment for Health and Health Inequity: Emerging Trends from the Americas. Annual review of public health,