Research interests
Public health, social epidemiology, population health, disparities in health, life course and ageing, the US health disadvantage
Specifically:
(explaining) socioeconomic inequalities in health, social determinants of health and mortality, family factors and (mental) health, life course approaches to health and health disparities, work-family trajectories, cross-national differences in health
Project involvement
- Project member of “Social and Economic Determinants of Mental and Cognitive Health” (2015-present)
- Project member of “Social and Economic Determinants of Hospital Use, Morbidity, and Mortality over the Life Course” (2015-present)
- Project member of “Assessment of Methods in Population Health” (2015-2019)
- Project member of “The Role of Health Behaviors in Social Differentials in Mortality” (2015-2019)
- Project member of “Social Protection, Work and Family Strain: Cumulative Disadvantage Effects in the US and Europe” (2011-2015)
- Project member of “Demetriq – Developing Methodologies to Reduce Inequalities in the Determinants of Health” (2012-2015)
Datasets experience
- Demetriq – data collected in the project ‘Developing Methodologies to Reduce Inequalities in the Determinants of Health’
- EKSY – Random sample of the longitudinal population data file of Statistics Finland
- ERFI – Étude des Relations Familiales et Intergénerationnelles
- Eurothine – data collected in the project ‘Tackling Health Inequalities in Europe’
- Euro-GBD-SE – data collected in the project ‘The potential for reduction of health inequalities in Europe’
- GLOBE – Gezondheid en Levens Omstandigheden Bevolking Eindhoven en Omstreken (a prospective cohort study in the Netherlands)
- HRS – Health and Retirement Study
- IHIS – Integrated Health Interview Survey (NHIS data harmonized by IPUMS)
- NHIS – US National Health Interview Survey
- SHARE – Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (including the retrospective data)
Peer reviewer for journals (listed alphabetically)
American Journal of Public Health; Demography; European Journal of Aging; European Journal of Public Health; Genus: Journal of Population Sciences; International Journal of Epidemiology; PLoS ONE; Public Health