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Pathways to Health

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(2011 - 2016)
Chair (s) 
Mikko Myrskylä (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR))
Members 
Tommy Bengtsson (Lund University)
Alain Gagnon (Université de Montréal)
Ke Shen (Fudan University)
Gerard Van Den Berg (University of Mannheim)
Ken Smith (University of Utah)
Council Liaison 
Emily Grundy (University of Essex)
IUSSP Secretariat 
Paul Monet (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP))
Terms of Reference: 

There is increasing interest in the role of conditions experienced in utero or in infancy on adult health and mortality. Yet, mediating, modifying and buffering factors, such as adult height, socioeconomic status, and medical interventions, have received considerably less attention. In particular, little is known about whether negative insults early in life affect adult health directly through damage of cells and organs, or indirectly, through the ability to accumulate human capital.

 

Understanding of the full mechanism, however, is critical for the planning of interventions. The aim of the Pathways to Health IUSSP Panel is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to analyze the physiological and socioeconomic factors that mediate and modify the impact of early life conditions on later life health, and to analyze what interventions at what stages of life could be most efficient to buffer the effects. Expanding knowledge on these topics has potential to identify novel pathogenic processes and promising points of intervention. The panel includes researchers from demography, public health, economics, biology, and other disciplines. The panel aims to meet in 3-4 seminars within a four year period and publish the results in Springer's book series and in special issues of international peer-reviewed journals. Combining expertise at a global scale, the Pathways to Health seminars will lead to a greater understanding of how the chances for a healthy and long life build themselves up over the life course from the earliest days.

Programme: 

International Seminar on Causal Mediation Analysis in Health and Work

Rostock, Germany, 26-29 September 2016

 

International Seminar on Early-life Determinants of Late-life Employment, Ill Health and Early Death
Lund, Sweden, 20-21 October 2014


International Seminar on Pathways to Health: How intermediary life conditions mediate or modify early life effects
Berkeley, CA (USA), 1-2 May 2012

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