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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Marital Separation, BMI Decline, and the Myth of the Revenge Body
Preprint
Kapelle N. and Tilstra AM., (2025)
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Breaking Bonds, Changing Habits: Understanding Health Behaviors during and after Marital Dissolution
Journal article
Tilstra AM. and Kapelle N., (2025), Journal of Health and Social Behavior
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Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality in High‐Income Countries
Journal article
Dowd JB. et al, (2024), Population and Development Review
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Midlife health in Britain and the United States: a comparison of two nationally representative cohorts
Journal article
Bridger Staatz C. et al, (2024), International Journal of Epidemiology, 53
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Why is life expectancy in England and Wales falling behind? A cause-of-death decomposition approach.
Preprint
Polizzi A. et al, (2024)