March Lunch&Learn: Unpacking Midlife Mortality in the U.S. and Beyond
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We are delighted to welcome, Senior Researcher in Social Demography at the University of Oxford, for our upcoming Lunch&Learn. Dr. Tilstra鈥檚 research focuses on population health and mortality across the life course, with particular attention to how social, economic, and geographic inequalities shape survival patterns in midlife and later adulthood.听
For this Lunch&Learn, Dr. Tilstra will present Unpacking Midlife Mortality in the U.S. and Beyond, examining the drivers of rising mortality risks in midlife and placing the U.S. experience within an international context. Her talk will explore how structural conditions, policy environments, and social determinants contribute to divergent mortality trajectories, offering important insights for research and policy aimed at improving population health.
Itinerary
12:00pm - 12:05pm | Welcome and introductions
12:05pm - 12:45pm | Lunch&Learn presentation
12:45pm - 12:55pm | Moderated Q&A session
12:55pm - 13:00pm | Closing and upcoming sessions
Location
This is an online webinar hosted on Zoom. To receive details to enter the event, please register.
Featured Speaker
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Andrea Tilstra
Senior Researcher in Social Demography,听Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford
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is a Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, in the Demographic Science Unit and at Nuffield College. In her MSCA fellowship,听HealthShocks, she studies the indirect consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for population health.
Andrea is a quantitative medical sociologist and social demographer, and seeks to better understand the underlying social determinants of population health. In her work, she explores how societal-level shocks impact health and exacerbate existing midlife health inequalities, and she employs quantitative approaches to understand social inequalities.
Previously, she was a senior postdoctoral researcher (2021-2023) with Prof. Jennifer Dowd on her ERC grant,听MORTAL.听Andrea holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder (2021). Her work has been published in leading social and general science journals including听Demography,听Nature Communications,听Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,听Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and many more.听
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What are Lunch&Learn's?
The CAnD3 Lunch&Learn series is designed to introduce our Fellows, team members, and partners to emerging research on topics related to population dynamics and population aging. These modules will cover the鈥� Four CAnD3 Population Aging Axes: (1) family and social inclusion; (2) education, labour and inequality; (3) migration and ethnicity; and (4) wellbeing and autonomy.
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