Farid_FLICI

Welcome Yun and Jacob 😀

Tomorrow @farid-flici.bsky.social will talk about population ageing and social security sustainability in Algeria.

Join us! 👇

@farid-flici.bsky.social has done some amazing works! Please check it out his seminar.

Join us in Keppel Street on October 22 from 12.45 to 13.45

Join us next week to hear from @farid-flici.bsky.social on population ageing and social security sustainability in Algeria 🇩🇿

🗓 Wednesday, 22 October 2025
🕐 12:45–13:45 (BST)
📍 KS-LG19
💻 Zoom: lshtm.zoom.us/j/89990670777

ℹ️ More details: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

How does origin affect migrant mortality advantage in Spain? - Genus In high-income countries, migrants tend to have lower mortality compared with natives. It is necessary to understand such a phenomenon, known as “the migrant mortality paradox”, to design better socia...

New week, new publication 📝

Our visiting researcher @farid-flici.bsky.social examines the migrant mortality advantage in Spain by region of origin, now out in Genus.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sunny skies over London and PSG☀️

We’re happy to welcome three colleagues to the Mortality and Inequalities Research Group.

Julia Calazans @jacalazans.bsky.social‬ & Felipe Sánchez join as Research Fellows, while Rahaf Abu Koura @rabukoura.bsky.social as Research Assistant.

A warm welcome to all!

Heading west to talk about migrant mortality advantage at the conference of the British Society for Population Studies #BSPS2025

Our latest article in
@GENUS_journal
, with
@sergi_tl
and Inaki Permanyer provides further evidence about migrant mortality advantage in high-income countries, this time from Spain. genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Thanks @wensu221.bsky.social

How does origin affect migrant mortality advantage in Spain? - Genus In high-income countries, migrants tend to have lower mortality compared with natives. It is necessary to understand such a phenomenon, known as “the migrant mortality paradox”, to design better socia...

My latest article in @genus.bsky.social, coauthored with
@sergitl.bsky.social & Inaki Permanyer, shows that migrants from less developed world regions are more likely to have a mortality advantage compared to natives. Read more here: genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

I was very pleased to have participated for the 3rd time in the #ArabActuarialConference. After Cairo in 2023, Tunis in 2024, the Conference came to Algiers for it's 3rd Edition. The event reflects the expanding role of actuarial sciences in Algeria and Arab Countries in general.

From my talk at the Arab Actuarial Conference 2025, Algiers 9/7. S2: Health Insurance.

3/3) Hypertension and Diabetes contributes to 2/3 of the unhealthy years: In 2019, the cont. of HT was 47 in Men & 58% in Women, the cont of diabetes rose from 16 to 26% in Men Vs. 12-22% in Women.

From my talk at the Arab Actuarial Conference 2025, Algiers 9/7- S2: Health Insurance.

2/3) The burden of CDs is heavier for the elderly: 61 and 71% are the shares of the years with chronic diseases in life expectancy at age 60 for men and women resp.

From my talk at the Arab Actuarial Conference 2025, Algiers 9/7- S2: Health Insurance.

1/3) Evidence of chronic disease expansion in Algeria: In 2019, 21% and 29% of male's and female's life exp. was lived lived with chronic diseases. These shares were 16 and 25% in 2006 for men and women, resp..

Learn more in his new paper in Journal of Open Research Software:
🔗 openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/articles/10....

Download the package from CRAN:
📦 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Check out Q2q, an R package developed by Farid Flici (
@farid-flici.bsky.social), who is visiting PSG this year! 🎉

Q2q makes it easy to interpolate full age-specific mortality rates from abridged life tables, useful for both annual and multi-annual data.