Andrea Tilstra
PhD
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow
Andrea Tilstra is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, in the Demographic Science Unit and at Nuffield College. In her MSCA fellowship, HealthShocks, she studies the indirect consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for population health, with a keen eye toward maternal, fetal, and child health.
Andrea is a quantitative medical sociologist and social demographer, and 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.
Previously, she was a senior postdoctoral researcher (2021-2023) with Prof. Jennifer Dowd on her ERC grant, MORTAL. Andrea holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder (2021). Her work has been published in leading interdisciplinary journals including Demography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, American Journal of Epidemiology, and International Journal of Epidemiology, and more.
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?
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Dowd JB. et al, (2023), BMJ Open, 13
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Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates.
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Masters RK. et al, (2023), J Health Soc Behav, 64, 174 - 191
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Increases in Obstetric Interventions and Changes in Gestational Age Distributions of U.S. Births.
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Masters RK. et al, (2023), J Womens Health (Larchmt), 32, 641 - 651
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Invited Commentary: Stop Analyzing Suicides, Drug-Related Deaths, and Alcohol-Related Deaths Together.
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Tilstra AM., (2023), Am J Epidemiol, 192, 732 - 733
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Increases in 'deaths of despair' during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Angus C. et al, (2023), Public Health, 218, 92 - 96