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An international study involving the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science shows that life expectancy in Mexico declined between 2015 and 2021, before beginning to return to pre-pandemic levels by 2022. The study is the first of its kind to uncover the effects of violent deaths, particularly high homicide rates, and other causes of death on life expectancy before, during, and after the pandemic.

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science will be back at this year’s Population Association of America conference in Washington DC, 10-13 April. Find us at our demographic talks listed below and at booth 112.

A new tool could transform how scientists assess predictive models. The InterModel Vigorish (IMV) quantifies how much better one model is than another when predicting binary outcomes. By integrating the mathematics of gambling, the model offers a simple and clear way to compare predictive performance across different fields.

Entries are open for The Julia Mead Knox Memorial Prize for Research in Demography and Population Health. The prize commemorates the talented demographer and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s DPhil student Julia Media Knox who tragically passed away in November 2023.

Today marks five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. In this research spotlight, we look back at half a decade of COVID-19 research at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

On International Women’s Day, the Digital Gender Gaps team at the University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Department of Sociology have launched an updated version of their dashboard to help ensure women are equal participants in digital society.

Haemorrhage and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia are the leading causes of maternal deaths globally, according to a new study by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Congratulations to Dr Ursula Gazeley, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Oxford Population Health, who received the Cicely Williams Prize during her graduation ceremony at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

A new study by researchers at Oxford Population Health and Trinity College Dublin finds increased smoking and drinking during marital separation.