📢Doctoral Defence: Ulla Suulamo - "Long-term trends in mortality differences - Register-based studies in Finland, 1970–2020" 16 October 2025 at 12:00 Address: Porthania, PIII, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

🚨🚨 We are hiring 2 postdocs at PopHel – MaxHel. If you are interested in health inequalities and social determinants of health this is a great opportunity! Amazing working environment ✨, unique data infrastructure, and a truly interdisciplinary and international center 🌍. Deadline October 31st.

Had a great experience ⭐ at #SLLS2025! I hope we gave a good overview of what is possible with the amazing Finnish 🇫🇮 register data! @pophel.bsky.social @sllshome.bsky.social

An estimated 440 excess deaths were attributed to the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles County, underscoring indirect health effects and the need for improved mortality tracking. ja.ma/4oFM3af #MedSky

New study 🚨 out in @jama.com! We find that California wildfires🔥in January may have contributed 440 excess deaths in Los Angeles County. This estimate significantly exceeds the 30 direct fatalities linked to these events jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @pophel.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

As promised, here a summary of our newest paper on metropolitan and nonmetropolitan mortality in the US 1/8🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @astokespop.bsky.social @pennpsc.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social @ruralhealth.bsky.social @jruralhealth.bsky.social

Very important work by Jacob Bor and colleagues. Poor data quality of demographic and socioeconomic information on death certificates remains a big obstacle to the production of timely mortality statistics disaggregated by more than age, sex, and selected race and Hispanic origin groups.

New (core demography) paper on US metropolitan and nonmetropolitan mortality out in the Journal of Rural Health. Stay tuned for a thread 🧵summarising the key findings! #Demography

How many deaths are attributable to the slowdown📉in mortality improvements in the US? In a new study with @astokespop.bsky.social and @wrigleyfield.bsky.social we estimate 525,505 excess deaths in 2023 alone jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jamahealthforum.bsky.social #demography #epidemiology 🧵1/7

🚨 Another article on health and migration out in Social Science and Medicine! With Pekka Martikainen and Irma Elo, we look at the mortality of internal migrants in Finland www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New article out in Social Science & Medicine! Irma Elo and I take a deeper look at trends in life expectancy for foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Great Birdington Declaration

So many great things going on at @pophel.bsky.social!

Amazing podcast! Thank you for the suggestion. Nice to see the intricacies of demographic data becoming the source of so much attention.

We opened two new postdoc positions! Deadline 14th March. If you want to work with amazing Finnish register data on social inequalities in population health, this is the place to be. Get in touch with us if you have questions. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

The first report from our collaboration with the Society of Actuaries (SOA) is now out! @astokespop.bsky.social We look at cause-specific excess mortality in the US and reflect on the most likely explanations for the gap between excess and COVID-19 mortality. www.soa.org/resources/re...

All the sessions I proposed for #PAA2025 have been approved! 🎉 Lots of data-focused research with sessions on 1) Spatial Data and Methods, 2) Assessing the Quality of Demographic Data, and 3) Enhancing Existing Data with Statistical and Demographic Methods. Thanks for all the amazing submissions!

The deadline for #PAA2025 🤩 is in 11 days! If your work uses innovative spatial data collection techniques or applies spatial data analysis, small-area estimation, or GIS to answer questions in population health consider submitting it to my session 405: Spatial Data Collection and Methods!

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,315,797!

Fantastic work as usual! Socio-behavioral factors should be brought back to the center of mortality research. AFAIK there was no session on this topic at the 2024 PAA Annual Meeting and very few scattered papers/posters.

I had forgotten just how good is Fabrizio De Andé. Volume 8 is an absolute masterpiece, each song is unique, could listen to it in a loop for hours www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

My dissertation "The Demography of Shocks: Migration and Mortality under the Influence of Environmental and Epidemiological Shocks" is now publicly available! repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...

I shared my latest article on Reddit. Interesting reactions, mostly on Florida: home insurance market disappearing, if you are old enough sea-level rise will not affect you, environmental amenities (warm weather) compensate for the risk of hurricanes. www.reddit.com/r/science/co...

🚨🚨🚨 New paper out in Pop and Environment! I estimate excess migration associated with hurricanes in the US Findings: 1) post hurricane migration is rare 2) damage is the strongest predictor 3) outmigrants move to counties exposed to future natural disasters link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Amazing work from colleagues (1st author E Paglino, sr author A Stokes) counting the unrecognized COVID deaths www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... I'm pasting the maps here b/c everyone loves maps, but the evidence that most convinced me was the timing of excess deaths vs COVID deaths (next skeet).

🚨New article out in PNAS! We find 162,886 more excess deaths from natural causes than COVID-19 deaths in the first 30 mo of the pandemic and provide evidence that many of them are unrecognised COVID-19 deaths @astokespop.bsky.social https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313661121 (1/1)

New article by me and Irma Elo out on Demographic Research! We show that In 2020 mortality rose more for foreign-born US residents of all racial and Hispanic-origin groups than their US-born counterparts. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Very insightful article on the @nytimes.com by Guido Alfani! His course on Inequality in Historical Perspective at Bocconi is one of the best I've ever taken. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/o...

Slides and material from my Workshop on Small Area Estimation for UPenn Sociology and Demography Quantitative Methodology Working Group. Excited to see a lot of interest! github.com/eugeniopagli...