Vanessa Di Lego

Vanessa Di Lego

Professor of Demography · Departamento de Demografia, Cedeplar/FACE/UFMG
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

I work at the intersection of formal demography, mortality methodology, and gender — asking how we measure health and longevity, and for whom the numbers hold. My current research focuses on lifespan variability and inequality, estimation sensitivity in health expectancy, and gender gaps in mortality and morbidity.

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Selected recent work

Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? A decomposition analysis of the gender gap in unhealthy life years across Europe

Muszyńska-Spielauer, M., Minagawa, Y., Di Giulio, P. & Di Lego, V.

European Journal of Epidemiology, 2026

Gender

Mismatches in Health: A Global Analysis of Discrepancies Between Self-Reported and Tested Mobility and Cognition

Di Lego, V., Spitzer, S. & Lazarevič, P.

Comparative Population Studies, v. 49, 2024

Health

Uncovering the gender health data gap

Di Lego, V.

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, v. 39, 2023

Gender

The impact of COVID-19 vaccines on the Case Fatality Rate: The importance of monitoring breakthrough infections

Di Lego, V., Sanchez-Romero, M. & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A.

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022

COVID-19

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