Doctor of Philosophy in Population Studies- Population Health

A wide variety of demographic, social, and socioeconomic factors play a role in determining our health status, how long we live, and when, how and where we die. Health conditions and disease epidemics, in turn, influence social and economic outcomes, and overall wellbeing for individuals, their families, and their communities. OPR researchers have conducted ground-breaking work on these interrelationships both in the US and around the world in countries such as South Africa, Kenya, Taiwan, Madagascar, and been influential in national and global health policy making.
Researchers have examined reproduction, obstetric risk and medical ethics (Armstrong), links between economic status and health status in childhood, and midlife morbidity and mortality (Hendi) including deaths of despair (Case, Deaton), the impact of social and economic factors on adult health and the physiological pathways through which these factors operate (Goldman), population dynamics of infectious disease epidemics and pandemics such as Rubella, Measles, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 (Grenfell, Metcalf, Salganik, Mojola, Goldman), and vaccination (Grenfell, Metcalf).

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