Marieke Welten

Marieke Welten is a Researcher in the Department of Medical Informatics at Erasmus University Medical Center. Her work focuses on large-scale epidemiological studies with particular emphasis on child health outcomes, growth patterns, and risk factor analysis across European birth cohorts.

Her research interests center on meta-analysis methodologies, cohort study design, and the examination of body mass index trajectories from infancy through adolescence. She investigates how early-life factors influence long-term health outcomes including obesity, asthma disparities, and cognitive development. Her work often involves complex statistical modeling of large datasets spanning multiple European countries and institutions.

Analysis of Welten's recent publications reveals a strong focus on federated data analysis approaches that maintain privacy while enabling collaborative research. Her work spans public health epidemiology, clinical informatics, and developmental health, with particular attention to social determinants of health and early-life interventions. She contributes significantly to methodological advancements in handling large-scale health data while addressing ethical considerations in data sharing.

Welten actively collaborates across numerous European research institutions as evidenced by her involvement in multi-cohort studies involving tens of thousands of participants. Her technical contributions to platforms like DataSHIELD and MOLGENIS Armadillo demonstrate her commitment to developing robust infrastructure for secure, collaborative health research.