The ERC Consolidator Grant for the five-year project “Healthy Lifespan Inequality: Measurement, Trends, and Determinants” -HEALIN, led by IP Iñaki Permanyer, which examines variability in morbidity onset, its relationship with mortality, and the underlying inequalities—is coming to an end. To celebrate this milestone, we are organizing a two-day final workshop to share key findings from the past few years and, most importantly, to engage with leading experts in related fields. The goal is to identify the most pressing research challenges in this dynamic area and explore potential avenues for collaboration on cutting-edge topics. Experts from institutions across Europe will participate in this workshop.

HEALIN Workshop_FINAL

List of participants and presentation titles

Opening: Albert Esteve (9:00 h)

Session 1

Iñaki Permanyer: “The HEALIN project”

Sergi Trias-Llimós: “Inequalities in the burden of major conditions on mortality: Evidence from Catalonia”

Chiara Micheletti: “Multistate distributions and morbidity compression: advancing the debate on ageing and health”

Jeroen Spijker: “Changes in multimorbidity patterns of chronic diseases among Spanish senior citizens between 2006 and 2017”

Júlia Almeida Calazans: “On the Measurement of Population Health Heterogeneity”

Sahar Ahmed: “Understanding multimorbidity progression patterns in Catalunya”

Session 2 (11:30 h)

Jennifer Beam Dowd: “The Role of Rising Obesity in the Stagnation of U.S. Life Expectancy”

Andrea Tilstra: “Midlife Transitions and their Association with Health Behaviors and Wellbeing”

Isaac Sasson: “The impact of slowdown in mortality improvements on lifespan inequality in high-income countries”

Session 3 (14:00 h)

Wilma Nusselder: “Inequalities in Health Expectancies: The Role of Determinants and Challenges Ahead”

Pavel Grigoriev: “ERC-Project REDIM: Understanding regional cause-specific mortality trends and patterns in Europe”

Marcus Ebeling: “Of Pioneers and Laggards: Diseases, Health and Mortality in High-Income Countries”

Session 4 (15:45 h)

Marc Luy: “Cross-sectional association between health and mortality”

José Manuel Aburto: “New perspectives on lifespan inequality as a function of survival”

Cosmo Strozza: “Understanding end-of-life multimorbidity: An analysis of Multiple Causes of Death in Denmark”

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Tuesday 29th of April

Session 5 (9:30 h)

Alyson van Raalte: “Mortality inequality and population heterogeneity”

Tim Riffe: “An indirect method to infer multistate transitions”

Patrick Debossere: “Indoor pollution, a longtime invisible killer. A census-based mortality study for Belgium”

Session 6 (11:30 h)

Virginia Zarulli: “Deriving and Comparing Healthy Longevity Distributions by Gender and Health Prevalence Measures: A Statistical Moments Approach.”

Fabian Tetzlaff: “Regional Socioeconomic Inequalities in Cancer in Germany”

Andrea Nigri: “Dealing with Proportions: Statistical Modeling for Compositional Data in Longevity Analysis”