Reconstructing Lives: What does Linking 118 Years of Data Reveal?

​For anyone exploring how historical data can transform digital healthcare delivery and population health insights.

​What killed Scottish mothers during the 1918 flu pandemic? How did coal mining really affect miners' lifespans? Prof Peter Christen (20,000+ citations, world-leading record linkage expert) reveals how the Scottish Historic Population Platform (SHiPP) is reconstructing every Scottish life from 1855-1973 by linking millions of vital records.

​You'll see:

• ​Real impact: Spanish flu on maternal mortality, coal miners' health trajectories

• ​Privacy-preserving methods for linking modern health records at scale

• ​How the right database answers questions we didn't know we could ask

​Perfect for anyone working at the intersection of data, history, and health policy—where linking historical patterns illuminates future digital health strategies.

​Prof Christen: 25+ years linking administrative data, author of "Data Matching" and "Linking Sensitive Data"