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Jenn Dowd

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Prof. of Demography & Population Health, University of Oxford.

Editor-in-Chief, @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social #scicomm

Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, Biosocial science, COVID-19. 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.

Love mountains & lifting heavy things.

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"Our findings highlight that improving morbidity and mortality among people of reproductive age—without compromising their reproductive autonomy—is critical in the United States."

New 🔥 paper from
@polizzan.bsky.social @andreatilstra.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
t.co/BIVHytGpoG

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Work with me at Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology of UAB (Barcelona)!

Postdoc in "Quantitative Sociology & Population" in ERC "DIGINEQ" on Social Stratification, Adolescent Well-Being & Digital Inequality.

Deadline (in 4 days!): Monday 17 June

Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...

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Fair but I strongly disagree w/ the "pop act"/quality of songwriting characterization, so look forward to continuing the convo in real life at some point :) Miss our RWJ HSS overlaps!!

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Some exciting GLP-1 drug new randomized trial evidence for potential disease-modifying impact on Parkinson's disease (there are none).
No progression of motor disability in the Rx group for 12 months.
nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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"Regard­less of whether we want to increase birth rates or not, a cul­ture that fails to teach boys and men to be more caring and nur­tur­ing and to ask for help — includ­ing from each other — ulti­mately also leaves them worse off."

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"When stud­ies ask women who want to have chil­dren why they’re not...one of the most com­mon replies is: they don’t have the sup­port. Fin­land is show­ing that fam­ily-friendly gov­ern­ment policies aren’t enough. Male part­ners are simply not embody­ing the sup­port women need to have chil­dren."

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Tomorrow we will be discussing the new ODISSEI Code Library. We are trying to create a catalogue of code, especially for analyzing CBS Microdata and bringing better open science practices to the analysis of administrative data.

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“The strange thing w/ fertility is nobody really knows what’s going on. The policy responses are untried because it’s a new situation. It’s not primarily driven by economics or family policies. It’s something cultural, psychological, biological, cognitive.”

ft.com/content/500c...

#demography

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Ah indeed, I should have said! Up to 2019.

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An international comparison tells a different story, where mortality at working ages still drives diffs b/t the US & other countries. We offer this as a different lens & hope both pieces of work move us towards a better understanding of the troubling trends in US mortality. 3/3.

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TL;DR: While slowdowns in improvements at older ages are important to understand, the within-US counterfactual approach partly reflects the fact that rapid gains at older ages are no longer counterbalancing the longer standing mortality stagnation at middle-ages. 2/3

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