Background: Tuberculosis has been a significant public health concern, affecting millions of people worldwide throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and even nowadays in certain parts of the world. It...
Lecturer: Prof. Jonas Minet Kinge, University of Oslo Content of the lecture/ workshop: This lecture combines theoretical content with active learning to help students understand inequalities in health in a global...
Lecturer: Prof. Isabelle Devos, Ghent University Content of the lecture/ workshop: This lecture combines theoretical content with active learning to help students understand the epidemiological transition theory in a global...
Lecturer: Prof. Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University Content of the lecture/ workshop: The lecture starts with an overview of the long-term mortality decline contrasting underlying period and cohort factors. It reviews the studies...
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 about funding opportunities tailored...
Lecturer: Dr. Emre Sari, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre Content of the lecture/ workshop: This lecture presents the complex mechanisms of nature and nurture in persisting health and health behaviors across...
Call for Papers - From Influenza to COVID. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Factors of Inequality In Europe, the average lifespan has increased from around 47 years in 1900 to...
The first meeting of the subgroup ICD10 Classifications of Working Group 2: Methods and tools for standardization, coding and classifying causes of death takes place on Thursday 21 November 10:45-11:45...
Lecturer: Prof. Oonagh Walsh, Glasgow Caledonian University (ZOOM) Content of the lecture/ workshop: This lecture uses a history of Irish mental health to help students understand the impact that chronic mental...
The first meeting of the subgroup 'ICD10h Historic Strings' of Working Group 2: Methods and tools for standardization, coding and classifying causes of death takes place on Friday 29 November...
Lecturer: Prof. Ivan Miškulin, University of Osijek, Faculty of Medicine Content of the lecture: This lecture aims to clarify and illuminate the field of Public Health. Many people are still...
The annual international Conference of Young Demographers is held at the Faculty of Science, Charles University traditionally in the first half of February. We welcome submissions from all fields of demography, as well as...
Lecturer: Prof. Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick, Ireland Content of the lecture: This lecture aims to enable the students to think critically about key issues around data management, situated in the...
Lecturers: Adrià Molina (Computer Vision Center) & Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora (Open University of Catalonia & Center for Demographic Studies) Content of the lecture: The aim of the lecture is to...
Are you looking to expand your academic network and gain valuable mentorship? We invite you to a Mentoring & Networking Event on March 27, 2025, from 18:00 to 20:00 at Einstein This event provides a...
Lecturer: Prof. Lars Ailo Aslaksen Bongo, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Content: I will present our lessons learned using the ChatGPT chatbot to assign International Classification of Diseases (ICD)...
Lecturers: prof. Alice Reid, University of Cambridge, dr. Mayra Murkens, University of Groningen Content: The recently launched ICD10h coding system is designed to support historical demographers and historians in coding historical...
Lecturers: Dr. Elena Crinela Holom, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; Dr. Grażyna Liczbińska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań; Dr. Michail Raftakis, University of Bologna Content: This lecture will provide an overview of available...
The workshop is part of the COST Action project – The Great Leap and is aimed at scholars who are at an early stage of collecting individual-level death certificates (1800–1950)....
Lecturers: Dr. Hannaliis Jaadla, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Content: This lecture examines the long run patterns of health inequalities, with a focus on the social and spatial patterns...
As part of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past’, we will be hosting a one-day online-only workshop on the topic of ‘New ways...
The aim of this 2-day-event is to use an exemplary historical data set to explore different ways of statistically analysing and presenting mortality and causes of death data, including with...
Are you planning to apply for an individual research grant and wondering how to craft a strong proposal? Join us for an online workshop on 25 June 14:00-15:30 CET, where...
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 diverse countries and linguistic...
This event is only for invited scholars who contributed to the ICD10h. More information will follow.
The ‘Training Course on Coding Historical Causes of Death’ & ‘Death, Demography and Digital History Symposium’ are organized on 22-23 July 2025 at the Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia....
This Summer School is designed for early-career researchers engaged in the study of health inequalities through the lens of historical data. Participants will develop advanced skills in data harmonisation and...
The history of infectious disease mortality is far from over, neither in the western world nor the non-western world. Yet, the steep increases in life expectancy since the 19th century in...
Since the 1800s, causes of death have been systematically recorded in various types of historical registries, including parish registers, civil records, and hospital logs. Registration of causes of death was...
More information will follow.
The workshop will address key issues, including disparities in mortality and treatment access for myeloproliferative diseases (MPDs) and acute leukemias. It will also include discussions on methodologies for managing mortality...
We warmly invite you to join us for the launch and information session of the new Open Research Europe Special Collection “Multidisciplinary approaches to historical health inequalities, 1800–2022”. Registration link:...
Scope and Objectives Through presentations the first virtual workshop explores projects that are transcribing historical demographic records. After the workshop interested researchers, practitioners, and citizen scientists start working on a...
There is evidence that the relationship between socio-economic status and health, particularly mortality, is not constant. Depending on the context, inequalities in mortality have emerged, widened, or decreased over the...
The accurate registration of deaths has long been a challenge for researchers. Crises, such as epidemics, often led to a systematic underestimation of the disease itself- either to downplay its...
We are pleased to invite contributions to the GREATLEAP Conference which will take place on 11-13 May 2026 at Babeș-Bolyai University, Centre for Population Studies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The event...
