Understanding mortality: Biosocial determinants across cohorts, time and place

Project Information

MORTAL

Grant agreement ID: 101002587

DOI

10.3030/101002587

EC signature date 17 May 2021

Start date 1 June 2021

End date 31 May 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 342,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 342,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Other (3)

Coding of Obesity-related Mortality Impacts Estimates of Obesity on US Life Expectancy

Author(s): Andrea Tilstra, Aburto, J. M., Gutin, I., & Dowd, J. B.
Published in: medRxiv, 2022
Publisher: medRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.16.22275140

The UK’s covid-19 data collection has been “world beating”—let’s not throw it away

Author(s): Jennifer Beam Dowd
Published in: British Medical Journal (BMJ), 2022
Publisher: British Medical Journal Publishing
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.o496

Anti-Obesity Medications: Allies or Adversaries in Population Health?

Author(s): Jennifer B. Dowd, Neil K. Mehta
Published in: The Milbank Quarterly, Issue January 14, 2024, 2024, ISSN 1468-0009
Publisher: Milbank Memorial Fund

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality

Author(s): J. M. Aburto, Andrea Tilstra, G. Floridi and J. B. Dowd
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2205813119

Structural adjustment programmes and infectious disease mortality

Author(s): Nosrati, E., Dowd, J.B., Marmot, M., King, L.P.
Published in: PloS One, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270344

US Exceptionalism? International Trends in Midlife Mortality

Author(s): Jennifer B. Dowd, Katarzyna Doniec, Luyin Zhang, Andrea Tilstra
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, 2024, ISSN 1464-3685
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.25.23293099

Life expectancy changes since COVID-19

Author(s): Schöley, J., Aburto, J.M., Kashnitsky, I., Kniffka, M.S., Zhang, L., Jaadla, H., Dowd, J.B. and Kashyap, R.
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01450-3

An undue emphasis on rural older adults in the Chief Medical Officer's annual report 2023?

Author(s): Nathan J. Cheetham, Jugdeep Dhesi, Adrian Hopper, Jennifer B. Dowd, Claire J. Steves
Published in: Clinical Medicine, 2024, ISSN 1470-2118
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinme.2024.100204

Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cause-of-death analysis of life expectancy changes in 24 countries, 2015 to 2022

Author(s): Antonino Polizzi, Luyin Zhang, Sergey Timonin, Aashish Gupta, Jennifer Beam Dowd, David A Leon, José Manuel Aburto
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue 4, 2025, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae508

Midlife health in Britain and the United States: a comparison of two nationally representative cohorts

Author(s): Charis Bridger Staatz, Iliya Gutin, Andrea Tilstra, Laura Gimeno, Bettina Moltrecht, Dario Moreno-Agostino, Vanessa Moulton, Martina K Narayanan, Jennifer B Dowd, Lauren Gaydosh, George B Ploubidis
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, Issue 53, 2024, ISSN 1464-3685
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae127

Projecting the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. population structure

Author(s): Andrea M. Tilstra, Antonino Polizzi, Sander Wagner, Evelina T. Akimova
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46582-4

Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries

Author(s): Aburto, J.M., Schöley, J., Kashnitsky, I., Zhang, L., Rahal, C., Missov, T.I., Mills, M.C., Dowd, J.B. and Kashyap, R.
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, 2022, ISSN 0300-5771
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyab207

“Outside the Skin”: The Persistence of Black–White Disparities in U.S. Early-Life Mortality

Author(s): Andrea Tilstra, Iliya Gutin, Nathan T. Dollar, Richard G. Rogers, Robert A. Hummer
Published in: Demography, 2022, ISSN 0070-3370
Publisher: Population Association of America
DOI: 10.1215/00703370-10346963

Changes in numerators and denominators of death rates and their contributions to changes in life expectancy

Author(s): Wen Su, Mike Hollingshaus, Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Published in: Population Studies, 2025, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0032-4728
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2025.2531823

BugSigDB: accelerating microbiome research through systemic comparison to published microbial signatures

Author(s): Geistlinger, L., Mirzayi, C., Zohra, F., Azhar, R., Elsafoury, S., Grieve, C., Dowd, J.B ... & Waldron, L.
Published in: Nature Biotechnology, 2023, ISSN 1087-0156
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41587-023-01872-y

"Increases in 'deaths of despair"" during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and the United Kingdom"

Author(s): Angus, C., Buckley, C., Andrea Tilstra, Dowd, J.B.
Published in: Public Health, 2023, ISSN 0033-3506
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2023.02.019

Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality in High‐Income Countries

Author(s): Jennifer Beam Dowd, Antonino Polizzi, Andrea M. Tilstra
Published in: Population and Development Review, Issue 51, 2025, Page(s) 257-293, ISSN 0098-7921
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/padr.12687

The impact of early death on birth counts in the United States, 1950 to 2019

Author(s): Antonino Polizzi, Andrea M Tilstra
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae058

Older adults in the United States have worse cardiometabolic health compared to England

Author(s): Pongiglione, B., Ploubidis, G. B., & Dowd, J. B.
Published in: The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2022, ISSN 1758-5368
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbac023

Reporting guidleines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist

Author(s): Mirzayi, C., Renson, A., Zohra, F., Elsafoury, S., Geistlinger, L., Kasselman, L. J., ... & Waldron, L.
Published in: Nature Medicine, 2022, ISSN 1078-8956
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x

Inequalities in healthcare use during the COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s): Arun Frey, Andrea M. Tilstra, Mark D. Verhagen
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45720-2

Comparing trends in mid-life ‘deaths of despair’in the USA, Canada and UK, 2001–2019: is the USA an anomaly?

Author(s): Dowd, J. B., Angus, C., Zajacova, A., Andrea Tilstra
Published in: BMJ Open, 2023, ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069905

Working-age mortality is still an important driver of stagnating life expectancy in the Unites States

Author(s): Antonino Polizzi, Jennifer B. Dowd
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2318276121

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Cohort differences in physical health and disability in the United States and Europe

Author(s): Laura Gimeno, Alice Goisis, Jennifer B Dowd, George Ploubidis
Published in: The Journals of Gerontology: Series, 2024, ISSN 1758-5368
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbae113