Aashish Gupta

Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy? Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was fa...

"To this day, there has been no government recognition of the extent to which the pandemic hit India. It remains to be seen whether this will change now that such a clear story has emerged from the government’s own data." - @aashishg.bsky.social and Murad Banaji
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Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy? Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was fa...

Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 mn excess death registrations in India during Covid, suggesting over 4 mn total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact was far greater than the official estimate.
www.theindiaforum.in/health/will-...

Our new editorial in Bulletin of the WHO about ongoing initiative to improve the measurement of adult mortality in low-and-middle-income countries, where major data gaps have recently been compounded by US decision to end support for Demographic & Health Surveys

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How can we grow our food in a way that respects our environment?

Our Rice Tastes of Spring with its earthy illustrations celebrates the importance of traditional farming while capturing the spirit of Adivasi communities.

Story and research: @anumeha.bsky.social

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

what?

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In “Mortality by Cause of Death in Brazil,” @fernandofernandes.bsky.social, @cassiomturra.bsky.social, G Franca & M Castro quantify “the different & paradoxical ways the COVID-19 pandemic indirectly impacted other causes of death…in 2020 & 2021.” @hsph.harvard.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Great job opportunity: 3-year research fellow in José Manuel Aburto's Mortality and Inequalities Research Group at LSHTM: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Image shows woman in business attire shaking hands with a man in business attire across a table at the end of an interview in an office environment. Text advertisies CPC-CG job opportunity: Research Fellow post within the ESRC Connecting Generations programme to examine fuller working lives and care provision for individuals in later life in the UK and internationally at the Department of Gerontology, University of Southampton. Closing date: 11 April 2025.

📑 JOB VACANCY - #ResearchFellow post within the ESRC-funded Connecting Generations programme.

Examining fuller #workinglives and #care for later life individuals in the UK and internationally

📨Apply by 11 April: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

@bspsuk.bsky.social @britishgerontology.bsky.social

📣 The migration team at the @epc-official.bsky.social is looking for a new colleague (at junior/analyst level) w knowledge of labour migration & skills, integration & inclusion, & demography. Start date is ASAP, so please do consider applying & share widely in your networks! 🏃‍➡️

epc.eu/en/JPA-PA-EMD

Today's #worldhearingday 🦻So we shine a💡on a study on age-related #hearingloss in Europe by D.Stonkute @mpidr.bsky.social & Y.Vierboom @princetonupress.bsky.social. Educational inequalities in hearing loss vary by age, gender&region. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/hearing #hearingcare #safelistening @who.int

YouTube video by Population Association of America A Message from 2025 PAA President Irma Elo

A Message from 2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social President Irma Elo on how PAA is responding to the uncertainty in our government www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclk...

Improving retrospective data on recent household deaths: a multi-arm randomized trial in Guinea-Bissau AbstractBackground. In countries with limited civil registration and vital statistics systems, assessing the impact of health crises requires precise retro

With @otorrisi.bsky.social, we tested several methods to improve data on recent household deaths collected during surveys & censuses in many low-and-middle income countries. These are essential when civil registration of deaths is limited. Results in paper ⬇️ #EpiSky

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I’ve struggled to find the right words following Musk/Trump’s decision to end the Demographic and Health Surveys Program (the OG DHS). While nothing is inevitable, there is no denying this is a huge blow personally, professionally and for the world.
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Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

Samkelo depended on USAID-backed drugs to stay alive. Then came Trump’s order The suspension of billions in US funding has brought the fight against Aids screeching to a halt

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No words. This is absolutely horrendous news

Screenshot of the website of the Demographic and Health Surveys Program, which notes "Due to the on-going review of US foreign assistance programs, The DHS Program is currently on pause. We are unable to respond to any data or other requests at this time. We ask for your patience."

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Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024 Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ong...

"...life expectancy in the Gaza Strip decreased by 34·9 yrs during the first 12 months of the war, about half the prewar level..."

Guillot, M, M Draidi, V Cetorelli, José HCM Da Silva, & I Lubbad. 2025. Life Expectancy Losses in the Gaza Strip during the Period Oct, 2023, to Sep, 2024. The Lancet.

India's “egg map”: Eggs in midday meals are still a no-no across India’s entire “north-west” region, even in states where most people eat non-veg. Undernourished children pay the price.
[Credit: Swati Narayan]

Hey PhD students with demography/population health training!

The Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social is hiring multiple postdoc positions for next year. Apply to come work in the coolest pop center around (not that I'm biased or anything)!

pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Our new paper on a survey method to improve the measurement of mortality at older ages in countries with limited death registration ⬇️

We're hiring. Join our team

Before you start into the well-deserved holiday break, may I submit a possible entry for your New Year's resolution:

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Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.

New study reveals the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on other causes of death An international study involving researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has found significant effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on many causes of death across 24 countries.

📝 Our new @pnasnexus.org study has found significant effects of the #COVID-19 pandemic on many causes of death across 24 countries https://buff.ly/4iI51tF @polizzan.bsky.social @drjenndowd.bsky.social @aashishg.bsky.social

@leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @lshtm.bsky.social

📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976