Every year, the Department of Public Health of the Erasmus Medical Center presents two publication awards; the Encouragement Award (for the best PhD publication) and the TOP Award (for the best overall publication).
I am very honored to have received the Encouragement Award 2016 for our paper “Work–Family Trajectories and the Higher Cardiovascular Risk of American Women Relative to Women in 13 European Countries” in the American Journal of Public Health. I am also gratefully acknowledging my coauthors: Ivan Mejía-Guevara, Mauricio Avendano, Erika Sabbath, Lisa Berkman, Johan Mackenbach and Frank van Lenthe.