Excess mortality analyses have become popular during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to quantify attributed deaths. In a new publication Andrew Stokes (@BUSPH) explains the usefulness of this method for monitoring future emerging threats to population health.
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Our new AJPH commentary with Eugenio Paglino discusses:

1. Excess mortality estimates and their interpretation

2. How to design an excess mortality analysis

3. Excess mortality as a tool to monitor future health emergencies beyond COVID-19

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Interesting and important editorial in JAMA Health Forum about bolstering FDA Tobacco to improve public health

Bolstering FDA Pathways for Reducing Death and Disease from Tobacco jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Do you use DHS data but find it a pain to process the indicators and do subnational prevalence estimation? New package *surveyPrev* on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/s… with vignette on fitting different SAE models and tutorial to customize indicators!

Our paper on domain adaptation for verbal autopsy algorithm just appeared online: dx.doi.org/10.1214/23-AOA… Lots of fun working on the ideas with Zhenke Wu (吴振科) Irena Chen and Sam Clark and more extensions to come!

Paper with the dream team José Manuel Aburto Alyson van Raalte ANUDemography has just been published in Demographic Research. We developed a decomposition method measuring subnational contributions to lifespan variation. Please go check it out!
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Pub alert! Ami Zota Andrew Fenelon Gary Adamkiewicz
➡️HUD housing protects residents from lead doi.org/10.1289/EHP126…

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ColumbiaPublicHealth Tufts Medical Center Tufts School of Medicine The JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health UMN School of Public Health Agents of Change in Environmental Justice tuftsctsi HUD Healthy Homes

📢FMRI seminar this week: Elizabeth Wrigley Field (Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield@fediscience) presents 'What’s happening to US mortality since the Covid-19 pandemic?'
➡️Join us this Friday, 3/8, from 3:00-4:15pm via Zoom (go.wisc.edu/s07l80)

📢 #poptwitter #epitwitter

‼️ New cause-specific data series (HCD@HMD) added for 18 countries: mortality.org/Data/HCD

Big thanks to László Németh, Denys Dukhovnov and Svitlana Poniakina for their work on the project under supervision of Magali Barbieri and France Meslé.

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New postdoc opportunity in Demography and Public Health at NYU Abu Dhabi. Apply by April 1st!! Please share widely:

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#poptwitter #epitwitter #academicjobs

“What does it take to be able to respond to a disaster as it’s unfolding?..Where are the places that, when there was a crisis, really were not able to keep people alive?” theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

What's happened to US mortality disparities since the Covid pandemic? It turns out that, while mortality is higher than before the pandemic, most disparities are 'sticky'--they're almost exactly what they were prepandemic--but rural mortality remains high

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In a new JAMA study from our collaboration with the Census Bureau, we find that mortality rates among renters threatened with eviction more than doubled during the first phase of the pandemic: twitter.com/JAMA_current/s…

Minneapolis is so lucky to have a fantastic infrastructure of local health and data reporters. And Eugenio Paglino, Andrew Stokes, and our coauthors and I really appreciated this story on the top of the Star Tribune’s front page today

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths.” Explore the findings here: ow.ly/5Mqz50QBYvX

For more trending articles, visit the PNAS at ow.ly/bOG650QBYvZ.

Out today in Boston University School of Public Health's Public Health Post, a brief look into some of my recent work on The Intersection Between Aging, Education, and Work

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Important study and thread

The BMJ just launched a new 5 part series on lessons from the US response to Covid; the first 4 articles are at bmj.com/collections/us…

The inspirational Ana V. Diez Roux Drexel Public Health was one of the guest editors, I was the other