Wilma Nusselder

Wilma Nusselder, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Medical Demography at the Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is actively engaged in research at the intersection of public health and demography, with a strong focus on health and mortality inequalities by socioeconomic position, gender, and ethnicity.

Her research centers on the development and application of summary measures of population health, particularly health expectancies, to understand both the quantity and quality of life across populations. She investigates how risk factors and chronic diseases influence health trajectories and mortality, and evaluates the impact of public health interventions and policies. Her methodological expertise includes life table analysis, decomposition methods, and modeling frameworks such as DYNAMO-HIA and ERAINHE.

The analysis of her recent publications reveals a consistent focus on health disparities, particularly educational and socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy, disability, and chronic disease. Her work increasingly employs comparative international data, simulation modeling, and policy impact assessment, reflecting a trend toward evidence-based public health strategy and forecasting.

Dr. Nusselder is the coordinator of ERAINHE, a collaborative European framework for harmonizing mortality data by socioeconomic position, enabling large-scale comparative research. She teaches medical and PhD students and collaborates extensively with multidisciplinary teams across public health, demography, sociology, and econometrics.

She has contributed to numerous research projects and publications assessing the societal and health system impacts of policies, particularly in aging and health equity. Her work aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being), especially in reducing health disparities.