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…
Several INEQKILL team members presented preliminary findings at the 5th Conference Of The European Society Of Historical Demography (Radboud University Nijmegen, August 30 – September 2, 2023) Lise Bevernaegie talked about her research on cardiovascular disease. Her paper entitled 'Who died from cardiovascular disease? Spatial inequalities in cardiovascular mortality since…
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.
The EOS project "How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025)" (INEQKILL) is looking for a postdoctoral researcher. In close collaboration with the project leaders, the postdoc researcher will help with the coordination of the project, will assist the PhD students, write journal articles and present the results at workshops and conferences.
Social inequalities in mortality beyond the age of 65 are an important issue in the current context of population ageing, increased life expectancy and policies aimed at extending the legal retirement age. Members of the INEQKILL team just published an article looking into these inequalites in Belgium. They investigated if social inequalities in cause-specific mortality continue in old age, and if these inequalities evolved over the last decades (1992-96 vs. 2011-15). Read more about it on the post page.
The EOS project "How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025)" (INEQKILL) is looking for a doctoral researcher. As a part of this project, the doctoral researcher will conduct quantitative research on socioeconomic inequalities in emerging diseases (AIDS, COVID-19, neurodegenerative diseases, …) under the supervision of the project coordinators. The aim of the PhD is to map social inequalities in emerging diseases via statistical, demographic and epidemiologic analyses using register and census data.
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…