José H C Monteiro da Silva

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It's fabulous to welcome our students and alumni back to @mpidr.bsky.social for the 6th IMPRS-PHDS Graduate Workshop! We are looking forward to two days of research updates and networking as well as mini-workshops on science communication and mastering Q&A sessions!

Congrats to our our student @josehcms.bsky.social

winner of Farriss Grad Student Paper Award from Penn's Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies

Using Census to Estimate Mortality Differentials: an Application to Rural-urban Adult Mortality in Colombia in 2018

READ IT HERE:
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US-Born and Foreign-born Life Expectancy by Race and Hispanic Origin before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Interdisciplinary health scholarship has long documented the lower mortality of the foreign-born compared to the US-born populations. In this study, w…

🚨 New article out in Social Science & Medicine!
Irma Elo and I take a deeper look at trends in life expectancy for foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Attitudes on an Interconnected World How close do people feel to others around the world? How much do they want their countries involved in international affairs? A recent 24-nation survey explores these questions.

Have never traveled to a country outside their own
India 95%
Indonesia 92%
Nigeria 90%
Brazil 87%
Mexico 79%
S Africa 77%
Japan 34%
Poland 32%
US 23%
S Korea 21%
Greece 21%
Spain 15%
Italy 14%
Australia 10%
France 10%
UK 4%
Germany 3%

My dissertation "The Demography of Shocks: Migration and Mortality under the Influence of Environmental and Epidemiological Shocks" is now publicly available! repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...

New paper led by @cschmert.bsky.social with Marcos Gonzaga

www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

The paper analyzes data errors and their interactions in a single, coherent framework in which all of the major data problems coexist and interact.

Estimation and probabilistic projection of age- and sex-specific mortality rates across Brazilian municipalities between 2010 and 2030 - Population Health Metrics Background Mortality rate estimation in small areas can be difficult due the low number of events/exposure (i.e. stochastic error). If the death records are not completed, it adds a systematic uncerta...

In this paper, led by Marcos Gonzaga we estimated and forescated age and sex specific mortality rates for all Brazilian cities.

pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....