Maria Gueltzow

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Hi! I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Artifical Intelligence in Public Health Research of the Robert Koch Institute. Being part of the Climate and Societal Analysis , I am combining my interest in causal inference with machine learning and AI. I will continue my work on mental health and health inequalities with a focus on the consequences of climate change.

I hold a PhD in Public Health from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. My PhD research was conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, in affilitation with the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. The topic of my dissertation was to explore mechanisms underlying subgroup variation in mental health through the use of the counterfactual outcomes framework and genetically informed designs. You can find it here

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Jul 31, 2026 I’ll be presenting my work on how causal inference and ML can be usefully applied for studying the heterogeneous impacts of heat on the health care system at a couple of conferences in the coming months. Find me at: ISEE Poster Discussion Session PD21 AI/ML in Environmental Epidemiology in Munich end of August, the Symposium “Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research” in the Climate Change & Public Health Session in September, and at the EPH Conference in Bilbao in November. Looking forward to it! 🤠
Jan 17, 2025 On December 11th I sucessfully defended my dissertation at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam!
I wrote my dissertation titled “Digging Deeper - Exploring mechanisms underlying subgroup variation in mental health” at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in affiliation with the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam. Check out my thesis Check out a short summary by MPIDR news
Nov 1, 2024 I started a new job as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for AI in Public Health at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany. I am part of the Climate and Societal Analytics group and will focus on understanding the effects of climate change on health service use and mental health.
Jul 23, 2024
Jul 23, 2024

selected publications

  1. Ann Epidemiol
    Beyond associations: from theory to interventions in health inequalities research using causal inference
    Maria GueltzowMaarten J Bijlsma, and Frank J Lenthe
    Annals of Epidemiology, 2025
  2. Ann Epidemiol
    Childhood obesity’s influence on socioeconomic disparities in young adolescents’ mental health
    Maria Gueltzow, Joost Oude Groeniger, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Pauline W. Jansen, and 2 more authors
    Annals of Epidemiology, 2024
  3. Soc Sci Med
    The role of labor market inequalities in explaining the gender gap in depression risk among older US adults
    Maria GueltzowMaarten J Bijlsma, Frank J Lenthe, and Mikko Myrskylä
    Social Science & Medicine, 2023