About
To this day and age, deep-routed, structural inequalities in health have been one of the most consistent and pressing challenges society has faced. Recent events, such as the COVID19 pandemic highlight the urgent need for new research, insights and action to tackle this challenge for future generations. Embracing the COST Mission, the Great Leap takes a unique, multidisciplinary approach from a historical perspective to gain a greater understanding of the roots and drivers of health inequalities across regions and countries in Europe and beyond. To achieve this mission, the Great Leap creates an international, multidisciplinary network that will bundle expertise, techniques, insights and data to create (1) the first international comparable dataset of individual-level historical cause of death data, (2) innovative analytical tools to analyse it, and (3) insights into how this information can be used in current public health policy and practice.
For more information about this specific project, find out more on the COST-Action website.
News
Budget for 2025 Approved:Main Activities
- 29 November 2024
The COST Association has officially approved the 2025 budget for the GREATLEAP project, enabling the team to move forward with its planned activities for the year.
Katarina Matthes receives SNSF COST Grant
- 08 November 2024
The SNSF COST Grant grant has been awarded to support a groundbreaking project in Switzerland titled “Socio-demographic inequalities in the causes of death in Switzerland 1877-2024”
Ingrid van Dijk receives ERC Starting Grant
- 06 September 2024
Ingrid van Dijk, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History at LUSEM and researcher at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, receives
Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using
- 30 August 2024
From October onwards we are organizing a Lecture series that will provide a introduction to studying inequalities in health using a long-term historical perspective and causes-of-death
Historical International Classification for Diseases (ICD10h) published
- 07 August 2024
On Tuesday 27 July 2024 the Historical International Classification for Diseases (ICD10h) was launched, in which 76 scholars participated. Now all documents are available online: Alice
Article published by Katarina Matthes & Kaspar Staub
- 30 July 2024
Katarina Luise Matthes and@KasparStau Our members Katarina Luise Matthes and Kaspar Staub have published a short commentary ‘The Need to Analyse Historical Mortality Data to Understand
Tim Riswick receives NWO Veni grant
- 28 July 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to Tim Riswick for his project ‘Unravelling Health Inequalities. The Historical Roots of Inequality in Death
Maarten van Wijhe receives Sapere Aude DFF-Starting Grant
- 04 July 2024
Maarten van Wijhe is one of the 38 researchers to receive a Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant this year. The project is called “Post-pandemic infectious disease landscapes:
GREATLEAP Kick-off: A Vibrant Start to a Visionary Project
- 09 June 2024
Nijmegen, Netherlands, became a hub of excitement and intellectual synergy on May 2-3, 2024, as the COST Action project “The Great Leap: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Health
Interview with Tim Riswick, COST Action Chair of GREATLEAP
- 25 April 2024
‘I believe team science is the way forward’ – Dr Tim Riswick The first meeting for the COST Action programme, GREATLEAP, will be held on
Events
Calls
Call for Applications: Training Course on Coding Historical Causes of
- 17 December 2024
The recently launched ICD10h coding system is designed to support historical demographers and historians in coding historical causes of death. Widespread adoption of this system across
Calls from WG2 working groups
- 17 December 2024
Working Group 2 has moved on the next stages of the work developing ICD10h. There are three strands to this work: Following an initial meeting, we
Call for Applications: MA Course ‘Data Management for Historians’
- 09 December 2024
Are you a PhD or master’s student in economic and social history eager to work with historical records and data? GREATLEAP is has reserved a few
Call for Conference Grants: European Social Science History Conference
- 05 December 2024
Are you presenting at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) in one of the GREATLEAP sponsored session, but lack the financial means to cover travel
Call for Papers: GREATLEAP Sessions at the European Society for
- 29 November 2024
We invite submissions for two exciting sessions we will propose for the upcoming European Society for Historical Demography (ESHD) Conference: 1. Unravelling inequalities in health using
Call for Registrations: Workshop and hackathon ‘Analysing historical mortality and
- 11 November 2024
As part of Working Group 3 ‘Creation Analytical tools: computational and visualization tools‘ of the COST Action ‘The Great Leap’, we will be hosting an in-person
Call for Papers 16th Conference of Young Demographers
- 17 October 2024
See the full call here. We encourage junior scholars to apply to the 16th Conference of Young Demographers (5-7 February in Prague): deadline 28 October 2024.
Call for Papers Special Issue: Sources and Databases on Causes
- 16 October 2024
Please download the full Call for Papers here. Since the 1800s, causes of death have been systematically recorded in various types of historical registries, including parish
Call for proposals Thematic Workshop: ‘Funding Oppertunities for Studying Inequality
- 02 September 2024
We are excited to announce the Thematic Workshop: ‘Funding Oppertunities for Studying Inequality in Health’. This will be a dedicated workshop in which participants can brainstorm
Call for expression of interest in WG2 working groups
- 07 August 2024
Working Group 2 is coordinating activities related to the standardization and coding of the causes of death into the ICD10h, and the development tools to classifying
1st Call for Project Proposals Host Institutes
- 27 June 2024
Description To be able to have more impact GREATLEAP opens a Call for Proposals for Host Institutes to create a small project for a visiting scholar
1st Call for Thematic Workshops (co-organised)
- 27 June 2024
Description To be able to have more impact GREATLEAP opens a Call for Thematic Workshop proposals to officially co-organise events. This call is open for scholars
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on Early Child Mortality in
- 27 June 2024
We are delighted to invite contributions for a special issue dedicated to exploring the patterns and causes of early child mortality (ages 1-4) across Europe during
Workshops IUSSP Panel
- 14 March 2024
In collaboration with the IUSSP Panel Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past three events are organized that are of interest to our Action’s
Call for Papers in ESSHC Sessions ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases’
- 14 March 2024
The 15th European Social Science History Conference will take place 26-29 March 2025 in Leiden, the Netherlands. We are aiming for a session on ‘Changing diseases
Call for ITC Conference Grants
- 14 March 2024
A call for ITC Conference Grants is from now open for the period April-September 2024. These grants are aimed at supporting young researchers – Early Career
Call for STSMs
- 14 March 2024
The call for applications for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) is now open for the period May-September 2024. An STSM comprises a visit by a young researcher
Training Materials
Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’
From October 2024 to December 2024 on Friday afternoon 14:00-16:00
