INEQKILL researcher Audrey Plavsic won the award for best presentation with her presentation on suicide in Belgium from the 19th to 20th century on the 15th Conference of Young Demographers in Prague . Many congratulations, Audrey!
The S.O.S. Antwerp team, with INEQKILL members Isabelle Devos, Sven Vrielinck and Sarah Heynssens, was awarded the Annual Prize for Science Communication by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium on November 14th for its creative and accessible way of communicating about science to the public. The S.O.S. Antwerp citizen science…
The first INEQKILL advisory board meeting was held on 22 September 2023. The advisory board consists of nine international experts who will provide guidance and strategic advice to the INEQKILL team. We were honored to welcome them to Brussels and present them with our research objectives and preliminary results. Coördinator Sylvie…
INEQKILL’s PI Isabelle Devos is the co-supervisor of the COST Action 'The great leap. Multidisciplinary approaches to health inequalities, 1800-2022 (GREATLEAP)'. A COST Action is an interdisciplinary research network that brings researchers and innovators together to investigate a topic of their choice for 4 years. COST Actions are typically comprised of…
In June 2023, Janna Dinneweth successfully defended her Master's thesis "Forgotten inequality: socioeconomic disparities in mortality associated with neurodegeneration, a population-based study in Belgium 2011-2016”. She joined the IneqKill team on the 1st of September 2023 as a PhD student focussing on neurodegenerative diseases.
Welcome to the INEQKILL website! Our research focusses on the long-term evolution of mortality inequalities (1800-2025). We will share the progress of our research and activities on this website. Are you curious about our project? Do you have a comment or a question? Let us know. You can contact us…