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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“Outside the Skin”: The Persistence of Black–White Disparities in U.S. Early-Life Mortality
Journal article
Tilstra AM. et al, (2022), Demography
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Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality
Journal article
Aburto JM. et al, (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119
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Coding of Obesity-related Mortality Impacts Estimates of Obesity on U.S. Life Expectancy
Preprint
Tilstra AM. et al, (2022)
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Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in USA mortality
Preprint
Aburto JM. et al, (2022)
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Trends in “Deaths of Despair” Among Working-Aged White and Black Americans, 1990–2017
Journal article
Tilstra AM. et al, (2021), American Journal of Epidemiology, 190, 1751 - 1759