Daniel Zazueta-Borboa
PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
J. Daniel Zazueta-Borboa is a demographer specialising in socio-economic inequalities in health and mortality in Europe and Latin America. Based in the Demographic Science Unit, Daniel uses demographic and statistical analysis as a tool to assess health inequalities. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Researcher on Professor Jennifer Dowd’s MORTAL project. His research focuses on the role of lifestyle factors on socio-economic inequalities in health and mortality.
Daniel recently completed his PhD in Demography at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute and the University of Groningen. During his PhD participated in the International Max Planck School on Population, Health and Data Science. His PhD thesis was about long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy in Italy, Finland, and England & Wales. Next to his PhD, Daniel researched the impact of violence and COVID-19 on life expectancy in Mexico, as well as the impact of adverse early-childhood conditions on diabetes later in life.
Recent publications
Assessing the Accuracy of ARIMA and Hamilton-Perry Models to Forecast Population at the Intra-urban Level in Greater Mexico City
Preprint
González-Leonardo M. et al, (2025)
The Contribution of Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation in England and Wales, Finland, and Italy (Turin).
Journal article
Zazueta-Borboa J-D. et al, (2025), Demography, 62, 1689 - 1715
The contribution of education-specific mortality trends to the life expectancy stagnation in England & Wales.
Journal article
Zazueta-Borboa J-D. et al, (2025), Eur J Epidemiol, 40, 511 - 515
The impact of violence and COVID-19 on Mexico's life-expectancy losses and recent bounce-back, 2015-22.
Journal article
Zazueta-Borboa J-D. et al, (2025), Int J Epidemiol, 54
Economic Disadvantage During Childhood, Obesity, and Diabetes Across Three Birth Cohorts of Older Mexicans.
Journal article
Zazueta-Borboa J-D. et al, (2024), J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 79
