Dr M. Murkens (Mayra)

Mayra Murkens is a post-doctoral researcher within the research project 'Lifting the burden of disease. Modernisation in health in the Netherlands: Amsterdam 1854-1940.' Her specific research focusses on the question how different life-courses affected cause-specific mortality risks.
Her expertise lies where historical demography and medical history meet, in particular covering the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her main research interest is how socioeconomic status affects health in the past. She aims to improve our understanding of health inequalities in the past by combining quantitative and qualitative research methods.

• Historical demography

• Radboud Group For Historical Demography and Family History