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7 May 2025

Jason Fletcher gives LCDS Seminar 'Moving Forward by Looking Back: New Evidence that Early Life Shapes our Lifespan'

Jason Fletcher, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison will give LCDS Seminar May 27 2pm 'Moving Forward by Looking Back: New Evidence that Early Life Shapes our Lifespan'

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6 May 2025

Iñaki Permanyer gives LCDS Seminar on Multimorbidity Dynamics

Iñaki Permanyer, CREA Research Professor, Center for Demographic Studies (CED) gives LCDS Seminar, Multimorbidity dynamics in Catalonia, 2010-2021: a population-based cohort study, Thursday May 15, 2:00-3:30pm, Butler Room, Nuffield College

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16 Apr 2025

Violence and COVID-19 drive decline in Mexico’s life expectancy

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.

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8 Apr 2025

See you at PAA 2025!

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.

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4 Apr 2025

New tool could inform our ability to predict health and other outcomes accurately

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.

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1 Apr 2025

The Julia Mead Knox Memorial Prize 2025

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.

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11 Mar 2025

Research spotlight: Five years of COVID-19 research

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.

Updated Digital Gender Gaps dashboard showing subnational estimates of women’s internet use in different regions of India
8 Mar 2025

Digital Gender Gaps dashboard updated to include subnational estimates

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.

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7 Mar 2025

Global update reveals haemorrhage as leading cause of maternal death

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).

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