Taymara Abreu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Utrecht University. Her research bridges health and social data sciences, focusing on predictive modelling to extrapolate insights from survey data to the population level by integrating survey and administrative data.
Taymara holds a BSc in Nutrition from Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and a cum laude MSc in Epidemiology from Radboud University (Netherlands).
During her PhD, conducted at the department of Epidemiology & Data Sciences at Amsterdam UMC and within the Exposome-NL project, Taymara focused on the relationship between social environmental factors in cardiometabolic diseases. Her research combined comprehensive evidence synthesis with longitudinal data analysis to examine how social disadvantages, life course socioeconomic trajectories, and the quality of social relationships relate to health outcomes across the life course and in diverse populations and settings.
Taymara C. Abreu, Joline W. J. Beulens, Ilonca Vaartjes and Joreintje D. Mackenbach
BMC Medicine, Volume 24, article number 46 (2025)
Taymara C Abreu, Joreintje D Mackenbach, Joline WJ Beulens, Ilonca Vaartjes, Ichiro Kawachi
SSM - Population Health (2024)
Taymara C Abreu, Joline WJ Beulens, Fleur Heuvelman, Linda J Schoonmade, Joreintje D Mackenbach
BMJ open (2024)
Taymara C Abreu, Joline WJ Beulens, Fleur Heuvelman, Linda J Schoonmade, Joreintje D Mackenbach
SSM-population Health (2024)
Taymara C. Abreu, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Fleur Heuvelman, Linda J. Schoonmade, Joline W.J. Beulens
SSM - Population Health
Beulens JWJ, Pinho MGM, Abreu TC, den Braver NR, Lam TM, Huss A, Vlaanderen J, Sonnenschein T, Siddiqui NZ, Yuan Z, Kerckhoffs J, Zhernakova A, Brandao Gois MF, Vermeulen RCH.
Diabetologia. 2021 Nov 18.
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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