Cornelia Wagner

Cornelia Wagner is a postdoctoral researcher at the #PopHealthLab conducting research on social and life course inequalities. She holds a BSc in Bioresource Sciences from the University of Tsukuba (Japan), a MSc in Medical Anthropology from University College London (United Kingdom), as well as a PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Over the course of her academic journey she has developed an interest in biosocial approaches to health and illness, particularly for chronic diseases, from a life course perspective. For her PhD, she focused on the potential effects of life course socioeconomic conditions on healthy ageing, specifically how different educational trajectories across the life course can predict the risk of multimorbidity and mortality in later life. 

Her current research aims to better understand how health and social policies can reduce social and life course inequalities in prevention in middle and early old age. This research is part of the “PREVENT TOO” project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and carried out by a Swiss-Belgian team. More information on this grant can be found here.

Life course epidemiology, medical anthropology, biosocial approach to health and illness, multimorbidity, health policy

ORCID: 0000-0001-9597-3822