Stéphane Helleringer

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I study the impact of epidemics on population health. I also try to improve death records and other sources of data about adult mortality in Malawi, Bangladesh and other LMICs. Professor of social research and public policy at NYU-Abu Dhabi.

Websitehttps://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/social-science/faculty/stephane-helleringer.html
Stéphane HelleringerMar 9, 2023
Our new #dataviz is online @SociusJournal: we show that shift from household-based surveys to remote data collection by mobile phone that occurred during COVID-19 pandemic may have led to deterioration of age data collected by interviewers in some LMICs, with possible consequences for measurement of demographic indicators and statistical models of socio-economic outcomes. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231231158766
Stéphane HelleringerJan 28, 2023

Not a single co-author from an Ethiopian institution on paper describing a major archeological find at Melka Kunture site, near Adis Ababa. All from Italy, Spain, France or Germany https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01970-1

Journal editors should fight such extractive practices, and promote more equitable authorship, as is an ongoing struggle in #globalhealth.

https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/anae.15597

#archaeology

A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors report a specialized obsidian handaxe workshop at the site of Simbiro III in Ethiopia, suggesting that hominins more than 1.2 million years ago took advantage of opportunities provided by changing environmental conditions.

Nature
Stéphane HelleringerNov 24, 2022

New study on excess mortality during COVID-19 pandemic in urban area of #Bangladesh. Based on surveillance of burials, rather than civil registration of deaths. In my view, such studies face issues. Management of deaths (eg where/when to hold burial) might change during epidemics. Short-term fluctuations in count of deaths might be due to changing practices, better/worse record-keeping, migrations etc... as well as excess mortality.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.19.22281995v1

#covid #demography #globalhealth

Show threadStéphane HelleringerNov 21, 2022
Colleagues this week are visiting from Ethiopia, so I will be properly caffeinated for the foreseeable future
Stéphane HelleringerNov 19, 2022
Population & development review has interesting collection of essays on #8billion people, but I’m puzzled that article on « the data we need » does not even mention the need to count populations more regularly, and to dramatically improve registration of births & deaths in many parts of the world. I hope research on developing civil registration systems becomes much more of a focus among demographers, and that this is reflected in our flagship journals.
#Demography #CRVS #population
Stéphane HelleringerNov 14, 2022
We recently issued a call for papers for a special issue of the journal Demographic Research on "Innovations in measuring adult mortality in countries with deficient civil registration”. This is a major data gap in #development, #globalhealth and #demography, where we must largely rely on highly uncertain modeled estimates (e.g., GBD). We're hoping to bring attention to all the exciting work done in that space. Short descriptive reports (2,500 words) or longer papers (8,000 words) are welcome.
Stéphane HelleringerNov 14, 2022
Today’s important research finding: a data analysis workshop with colleagues from Malawi and Bangladesh will have the best coffee and the best snacks #globalhealth #Demography