Kersti Pärna is an associate professor at the Institute of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, Estonia, from where she gained MD (1984). She also holds MPH (1997) from the University of Kuopio, Finland, and PhD (2005) from the University of Helsinki, Finland. Kersti Pärna has experience in designing and conducting surveys and using data from registries for research. Her research concerns are personal medicine; cervical cancer research; socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviours (smoking, alcohol use, physical activity); amenable mortality and alcohol related premature mortality.