Ingrid van Dijk

Ingrid van Dijk is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Lund University, affiliated with the Department of Economic History and the Centre for Economic Demography. Her research focuses on long-term changes and inequalities in population health and mortality, integrating historical and modern data from Sweden and the Netherlands.

Her work investigates how health is shaped across the lifecourse by childhood experiences, disease environments, and intergenerational factors, with a focus on reproductive health, stature, birthweight, and morbidity. She contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to health and well-being (SDG 3) and reduced inequalities (SDG 10).

Recent research trends include analyzing metabolomics profiles linked to longevity, neighborhood impacts on later-life health, and the role of marital status in adult mortality. She is actively involved in projects such as Relative Health (Horizon Europe) and Birthing Inequity (Swedish Research Council), examining intergenerational health dynamics and colonial maternal health legacies.

• Interstellar Initiative for Early Career Researchers on Healthy Ageing (2021)
• PAA Best Poster Award (2021)

Van Dijk supervises PhD student Isa Barraclough and collaborates on health inequality workshops using longitudinal demographic data. Her publications span journals like Social Science & Medicine, Nature Communications, and Demography.