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Population Studies Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - psg.lshtm.ac.uk
Join us tomorrow for the last London Universities Population Seminar of this academic year! We are looking forward to hosting Aasli Abdi Nur (
@aasli.bsky.social
), who will present her work "Progress or Polarization? A Computational Analysis of Trends in Global Family Planning Research. Details 👇
about 1 month ago
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📢 New publication from PSG members Maria Gargiulo (
@thegargiulian.bsky.social
) and Anushé Hassan (
@anushe.bsky.social
), and alumna Ursula Gazeley is out in BMJ Public Health! The study shows how violent deaths during pregnancy and postpartum are an overlooked cause of maternal mortality.
about 1 month ago
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Mark your calendars for two exciting seminars coming up next week at LSTHM and PSG! 📆
about 2 months ago
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
2 months ago
“Estimates of Under-Five Mortality From a Mobile Phone Survey”: This study by Julio Romero-Prieto et al. represents “one of the first attempts to collect survival data via mobile phones and to randomize different survey instruments.”
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Congratulations to Poppy Cooper (
@poppycooper.bsky.social
) for winning the Best Poster Prize for the Epidemiology and Population Health faculty at the LSHTM Doctoral College Festival last week! 🎉🎉
2 months ago
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The latest blogpost of
@lshtm-crises.bsky.social
covers our PhD student Maria Gargiulo's (
@thegargiulian.bsky.social
) work on capturing undercounted maternal deaths in Mexico! Find it here👇
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Maria Gargiulo
3 months ago
“Measurements count, because if it’s not counted, it’s assumed to be unimportant” – Joni Seager A little preview of some ongoing work on violent maternal deaths in Mexico. These deaths are not currently captured by relevant health indicators, but they’re still important!
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📢 Check out these two new publications involving PSG members Maria Gargiulo (
@thegargiulian.bsky.social
) and José Manuel Aburto!
3 months ago
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Selin Köksal
4 months ago
📢 New paper out in the European Journal of Population (
@eaps.bsky.social
)! With Nicoletta Balbo and Francesco Billari, we investigated how Romania's 1960s abortion ban shaped the next generation's family formation outcomes.
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Selin Köksal
4 months ago
I contributed to a
@euronews.com
article by
@servetyanatma.bsky.social
exploring the fertility decline Turkey has been experiencing and why the story behind it is more complex than it seems.
www.euronews.com/health/2026/...
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Declining fertility in Europe: Why Turkey is leading the drop
Turkey’s total fertility rate fell from 2.11 to 1.51 between 2013 and 2023. Beyond long-term structural and cultural changes, experts point to economic instability and institutional constraints as key...
https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/03/02/why-turkey-is-recording-europes-steepest-fertility-decline-over-the-past-decade
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Antonino Polizzi
4 months ago
📈 New preprint on life expectancy trajectories in high-income countries since 2020. 📉 Joint work with a great team from
@mpidr.bsky.social
@oxforddemsci.bsky.social
@psglshtm.bsky.social
@camunicampop.bsky.social
Link below. 👇
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Next in London Universities Population Seminars 📢 Liliana Andriano (
@uossocstatdemo.bsky.social
) presents her work "Timing matters: Heterogeneous effects of climatic events on school attendance in Nigeria". Join us on Feb 26 at 12.45 📍 G05 LSHTM or online:
lshtm.zoom.us/s/82310981248
4 months ago
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Selin Köksal
5 months ago
Surveys are important for miscarriage research, yet questionnaire design and sample characteristics can influence reported miscarriage prevalence We compared miscarriage reporting across British surveys with
@mccompans.bsky.social
&
@heinivaisanen.bsky.social
- take a look at our pre-print here ⬇️
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Tomorrow at 12.45pm, join us for Marília Nepomuceno (
@marilianep.bsky.social
) and Ugofilippo Basellini (
@ugobas.bsky.social
) and their joint seminar on Human Longevity and Mortality Forecasting. In person at the Manson Lecture Theatre or online. For more details 👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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Human longevity and mortality forecasting | LSHTM
This joint seminar brings together two research talks exploring global mortality patterns. The first examines old-age mortality beyond high-income countries, investigating whether older adults in low
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/human-longevity-and-mortality-forecasting
5 months ago
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PSG seminars continue 📈 Up next on Jan 28 at 12:45, Research Fellow
@jacalazans.bsky.social
will give a talk on how tobacco control policies influenced adult mortality patterns in Brazil. Join us in person (LG24, Keppel Street) or online. Find more details 👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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Tobacco control policies and changes in adult mortality patterns in Brazil
Over recent decades, Brazil has experienced profound changes in its mortality patterns, characterized by a sharp decline in infectious diseases, population ageing, and the growing prominence of
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/tobacco-control-policies-and-changes-adult-mortality-patterns-brazil
5 months ago
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The first London Universities Population Seminar of 2026 is tomorrow! Francisco Rowe (
@fcorowe.bsky.social
) is joining us to present his work "Correcting Distorted Human Population Data from Mobile Phone Location Data" Tomorrow 13.00 at LSE, CON.1.01.
5 months ago
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Up next in the London Universities Population Seminar Series: On 25 November at 12:45, Dr Isadora Cruxên (QMUL) will present “Co-creating feminist technology to confront gender-based violence and feminicide.” Join us in G08 (Keppel Street) or online:
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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Co-creating feminist technology to confront gender-based violence and feminicide
How can technology support social justice struggles against gender-based violence and feminicide? This talk explores this question through the work of “Data Against Feminicide”, a collaborative
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/co-creating-feminist-technology-confront-gender-based-violence-and-feminicide
7 months ago
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We’re happy to welcome two new researchers to the Mortality and Inequalities Research Group at PSG 🙌 Yu Chen has joined us as a Research Fellow, and Jacob Martin, a PhD student at
@ined.bsky.social
, is visiting for the next two months. A very warm welcome to both!
8 months ago
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Selin Köksal
8 months ago
What happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing? With Francesco Billari and
@aksoyundan.bsky.social
, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.
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Kicking off London Universities Population Seminars for the new academic year! Join us Oct 28 in person (LSE, KSW.G.01) or online to hear from Prof Karen Glaser (KCL) on mental & physical health changes among adults aged 50-69 in England. Full schedule & sign up:
sites.google.com/view/londonp...
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8 months ago
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Tomorrow
@farid-flici.bsky.social
will talk about population ageing and social security sustainability in Algeria. Join us! 👇
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8 months ago
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Join us next week to hear from
@farid-flici.bsky.social
on population ageing and social security sustainability in Algeria 🇩🇿 🗓 Wednesday, 22 October 2025 🕐 12:45–13:45 (BST) 📍 KS-LG19 💻 Zoom:
lshtm.zoom.us/j/89990670777
ℹ️ More details:
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
9 months ago
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New week, new publication 📝 Our visiting researcher
@farid-flici.bsky.social
examines the migrant mortality advantage in Spain by region of origin, now out in Genus.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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How does origin affect migrant mortality advantage in Spain? - Genus
In high-income countries, migrants tend to have lower mortality compared with natives. It is necessary to understand such a phenomenon, known as “the migrant mortality paradox”, to design better socia...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-025-00264-1
9 months ago
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Sunny skies over London and PSG☀️ We’re happy to welcome three colleagues to the Mortality and Inequalities Research Group. Julia Calazans
@jacalazans.bsky.social
& Felipe Sánchez join as Research Fellows, while Rahaf Abu Koura
@rabukoura.bsky.social
as Research Assistant. A warm welcome to all!
10 months ago
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🗣️Exciting PhD opportunity! Join
@lshtm.bsky.social
PSG and
@mpidr.bsky.social
as a PhD student/Research Assistant on an 3-year project leading to a funded PhD. The role focuses on developing cutting-edge methods to model health & mortality in low-income countries.
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
https://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=EPH-DPH-2025-13
10 months ago
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Our MSc RSHR alum Rosa Mackay has just published her MSc dissertation! 🎉 Co-authored with PSG members
@rachelhvscott.bsky.social
and Melissa Palmer, the paper explores how people in Britain find and use online information during the abortion process. 🔗
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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“I'm Pregnant, What Do I Do?”: Exploring How People Having Abortions in Britain Find and Use Online Sources of Information
Background Accurate, timely, and supportive information is important for high-quality abortion care. Limited research explores how people find and use online sources of information (OSI) during the ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/psrh.70016
12 months ago
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Rob Salguero-Gómez
about 1 year ago
Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept
evodemo2025.weebly.com
Please retweet
@biology.ox.ac.uk
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
@mpidr.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
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EvoDemoS 2025
EvoDemoS 2025 International Conference. The local organising committee welcomes you to the 10th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society, hosted at Pembroke College, Oxford, bet...
https://evodemo2025.weebly.com
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PSG member Isolde Birdthistle spoke to The Independent about the impact of cuts to US-funded HIV services on young women in South Africa: 📰
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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@lshtm-march.bsky.social
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How sexual violence survivors in Africa are now collateral damage of Trump’s aid cuts
Rape crisis services are suffering the knock-on effect of US funded HIV services being cut, writes Rachel Schraer
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/hiv-aid-cuts-trump-south-africa-rape-b2749925.html
about 1 year ago
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🚨 Only 5 days left to apply for the PIC Masters Studentship for prospective MSc Demography & Health and MSc Reproductive & Sexual Health Research students
@lshtm.bsky.social
! Find more details here 👉
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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2025-26 PIC Masters Studentship Scheme in Population Studies | LSHTM
The Population Investigation Committee (PIC) established a scholarship fund in 1996 to facilitate further training in demography past undergraduate level. Eligibility for the studentship is restricted
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/funding-scholarships/2025-26-pic-masters-studentship-scheme-population-studies
about 1 year ago
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Join us today, in person or online, at 12.45!
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about 1 year ago
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🗣️ Just two days left - send your applications for this exciting opportunity to work with José Manuel Aburto and be part of the interdisciplinary PSG team!
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📢 Next in the London Universities Population Seminar Series (co-hosted with
@lshtmhistory.bsky.social
) 🗓️ Thurs 15 May | 🕐 12:45–14:00 📍 LSHTM G24, Keppel St. Dr. Rachell Sánchez-Rivera will talk about state-sponsored population control in 20th century Mexico
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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State-sponsored population control programmes: A new ph(f)ace of eugenics in
In this seminar, Dr. Sánchez-Rivera discusses the changeover from eugenics to population control programs and capitalist ventures during the second half of the 20th Century in Mexico. Special
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/state-sponsored-population-control-programmes-new-phface-eugenics-mexico
about 1 year ago
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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health
about 1 year ago
Join us for the next CHIPH seminar (in collab. with
@psglshtm.bsky.social
) on Thursday 15 May, when Dr. Rachell Sánchez-Rivera will be discussing state-sponsored population control in 20th century Mexico. Details below: Location: G24, Keppel St. Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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State-sponsored population control programmes: A new ph(f)ace of eugenics in
In this seminar, Dr. Sánchez-Rivera discusses the changeover from eugenics to population control programs and capitalist ventures during the second half of the 20th Century in Mexico. Special
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/state-sponsored-population-control-programmes-new-phface-eugenics-mexico
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We're happy to announce that Rahul Mondal (
@rahulmondal.bsky.social
) received the BSPS (
@bspsuk.bsky.social
) LMICs initiative to visit us and participate BSPS 👏 Looking forward to having you here in PSG soon!
about 1 year ago
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Check out Q2q, an R package developed by Farid Flici (
@farid-flici.bsky.social
), who is visiting PSG this year! 🎉 Q2q makes it easy to interpolate full age-specific mortality rates from abridged life tables, useful for both annual and multi-annual data.
about 1 year ago
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📢 Another exciting opportunity to join Mortality and Inequalities Research Group and work with José Manuel Aburto! We're hiring a 3-year Research Fellow in Population Data Science. Apply by May 16! 🔗 Full details and application:
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
about 1 year ago
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University
about 1 year ago
📝 A new study involving Dr José Manuel Aburto and Daniel Zazueta explores the impact of violence and COVID-19 on Mexico's life expectancy losses and recent bounce-backs between 2015 and 2022
buff.ly/G2SFOvt
@leverhulme.ac.uk
@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
@sociologyoxford.bsky.social
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Violence and COVID-19 drive decline in Mexico’s life expectancy
An international study involving the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science shows that life expectancy in Mexico declined between 2015 and 2021, before beginning to return to pre-pandemic levels…
https://buff.ly/G2SFOvt
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New research in the International Journal of Epidemiology, featuring PSG members José Manuel Aburto and
@thegargiulian.bsky.social
explores the impact of violence and COVID-19 on life expectancy in Mexico between 2015 and 2022. Read the open access article here:
academic.oup.com/ije/article/...
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The impact of violence and COVID-19 on Mexico’s life-expectancy losses and recent bounce-back, 2015–22
AbstractBackground. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy in Mexico stagnated from the early 2000s, mainly due to increased homicides. During the p
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/54/3/dyaf034/8113392?login=false
about 1 year ago
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PSG's Melissa Palmer sheds light on the significant prevalence of reproductive health issues among women in England
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Still time to get your application in for this fantastic role!👇
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about 1 year ago
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Congratulations!
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about 1 year ago
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Selin Köksal
about 1 year ago
📢 Spread the word! The call for papers for
#BSPS2025
is now open. I’m co-organising the Fertility and Sexual & Reproductive Health strand with
@joestrong.bsky.social
and we can't wait to read your fascinating work. 📝 Submit your abstracts by May 9, 5 PM (BST).
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Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/mLBIC9gWMIDXMYGfEhOUqrfQR?domain=lse.ac.uk
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Centre for Culture and Evolution
over 1 year ago
🧵 1/ Who cares for children matters - but how does it impact their health? 👶🏾💡 A new study explores care from non-maternal caregivers & child growth in Northwestern Tanzania by
@anushe.bsky.social
@abbeyepage.bsky.social
@davidwlawson.bsky.social
@rebeccasear.bsky.social
and co 📜👇
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Children's Caregiving and Growth in Northwestern Tanzania: Limited Evidence That Support From Specific Caregivers Is Associated With Better Growth
Receiving care from individuals other than one's mother (i.e., allomothering) is a universal aspect of raising children, but whether and how such care impacts children's health remains subject to deb....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.70029
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Deadline is tomorrow, do not miss this opportunity!
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 3-year Research Fellow position available in the newly established Mortality and Inequalities Research Group, working closely with José Manuel Aburto. Deadline 15 April. DM us if interested. See details 👉
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
More positions coming soon, stay tuned!
over 1 year ago
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📢 Funding opportunity 📢 We’re accepting applications for the Basia Zaba Scholarship for the MSc in Demography & Health
@lshtm.bsky.social
🎓 The scholarship covers full tuition fees for a UK home student for the 2025-26 academic year. Deadline 26 March. For more information 👉
tinyurl.com/3j7esk22
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Basia Zaba Memorial Scholarship | LSHTM
This scholarship is for the MSc Demography & Health. Professor Basia Zaba (1949-2018) Basia started her long association with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 1975 when she
https://tinyurl.com/3j7esk22
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📣Reminder! Join us tomorrow for an exciting London Universities Population Seminar! We are hosting Joshua Wilde (
@oxforddemsci.bsky.social
) who will present his work on climate change and fertility. More details below 👇
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over 1 year ago
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Graduation day today
@lshtm.bsky.social
🎓 Big congratulations to Dr. Shamsudeen Mohammed and Dr. Ursula Gazeley from the PSG team!
over 1 year ago
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📢 Next in the London Universities Population Seminars! We're excited to host Joshua Wilde (
@oxforddemsci.bsky.social
) presenting on
#ClimateChange
and
#Fertility
📅 4 March | 12:45 GMT 📍 Manson Lecture Theatre, LSHTM 🔗
lshtm.zoom.us/j/98684293654
co-organized by
@clscohorts.bsky.social
and pop@LSE
over 1 year ago
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The Population Studies Group
@lshtm.bsky.social
is now on Bluesky! ☁️💙 Stay tuned for the latest population research, upcoming events, and more updates from the PSG team.
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