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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Comparing trends in mid-life 'deaths of despair' in the USA, Canada and UK, 2001-2019: is the USA an anomaly?
Journal article
Dowd JB. et al, (2023), BMJ open, 13
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Increases in Obstetric Interventions and Changes in Gestational Age Distributions of U.S. Births.
Journal article
Masters RK. et al, (2023), Journal of women's health (2002), 32, 641 - 651
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Increases in ‘deaths of despair’ during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and the United Kingdom
Journal article
Angus C. et al, (2023), Public Health, 218, 92 - 96
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Inequalities in Healthcare Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Preprint
Frey A. et al, (2023)
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Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates.
Journal article
Masters RK. et al, (2023), J Health Soc Behav