Andrea Tilstra
Andrea Tilstra
Postdoctoral Researcher, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
Dr Andrea Tilstra is a quantitative medical sociologist and social demographer at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. Her research focuses on understanding how environmental shocks experienced by an entire society (e.g., period effects) influence two key demographic processes: fertility and mortality. In her work, she identifies the health consequences of policy changes, institutional practices, and large public health crises – revealing how these trends further exacerbate existing health inequalities.
Andrea holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder (2021). Her work has been published in leading interdisciplinary journals including Demography, American Journal of Epidemiology, Population Research and Policy Review, Biodemography and Social Biology, and International Journal of Epidemiology.
Recent publications
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Projecting the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. population structure
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Tilstra AM. et al, (2024), Nature Communications, 15
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US exceptionalism? International trends in midlife mortality
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Dowd JB. et al, (2024), International Journal of Epidemiology, 53
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Midlife Health in Britain and the US: A comparison of Two Nationally Representative Cohorts.
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Bridger Staatz C. et al, (2023), medRxiv
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The effects of HIV and systolic blood pressure on mortality risk in rural South Africa, 2010-2019: a data note.
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Houle B. et al, (2023), BMC research notes, 16
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Comparing trends in mid-life 'deaths of despair' in the USA, Canada and UK, 2001-2019: is the USA an anomaly?
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Dowd JB. et al, (2023), BMJ open, 13