Report on the Joint Workshop on the Relations between Health Inequalities, Ageing and Multimorbidity, Iceland, May 3–4, 2023

Jan P Vandenbroucke,1– 3 Henrik Toft Sørensen,1,4 David H Rehkopf,5 Jaimie L Gradus,6 Johan P Mackenbach,7 M Maria Glymour,8 Sandro Galea,9 Victor W Henderson1,10 1Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 2Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; 3London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; 4Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; 5Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, CA, USA; 6Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; 7Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Holland; 8Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; 9School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; 10Departments of Epidemiology & Population Health and of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAAbstract: This paper is a summary of key presentations from a workshop in Iceland on May 3– 4, 2023 arranged by Aarhus University and with participation of the below-mentioned scientists.Below you will find the key messages from the presentations made by:Professor Jan Vandenbroucke, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Emeritus Professor, Leiden University; Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UKProfessor, Chair Henrik Toft Sørensen, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital, DenmarkProfessor David H. Rehkopf, Director, the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, CA., USProfessor Jaimie Gradus, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USProfessor Johan Mackenbach, Emeritus Professor, Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, HollandProfessor, Chair M Maria Glymour, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USProfessor, Dean Sandro Galea, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USProfessor Victor W. Henderson, Departments of Epidemiology & Population Health and of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US; Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DKKeywords: Ageing, Multimorbidity, Social inequality