Marie-Curie fellow

José Manuel joined Oxford to hold the Newton International and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships. Since 2022, he is also the Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography at LSHTM. He received his MA in Demography at El Colegio de México, and PhD in Demography at the University of Southern Denmark and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in 2020.

The overarching aim of José's research is to produce novel insights on population health inequalities and better understand the link between health inequalities and social determinants of health through core demographic concepts.

Theoretically and methodologically, José's work follows two main strands. First, he develops and advances formal demographic techniques to measure inequalities in the length of life, and uses this perspective to generate new ways of analysing population health. Second, through these and other methodological tools, he examines the structural and social determinants of population health inequalities. His work so far has examined how structural shocks like violence, and more recently the COVID-19 pandemic, affect population health inequalities around the globe.

 

Publications

Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Zazueta-Borboa, J.-D., Aburto, J., Permanyer, I., Zarulli, V. and Janssen, F. (2023) “Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe”, Population Studies [Preprint].
Thursday, 01 June 2023
Aburto, J. and Vigezzi, S. (2023) “The gap between US and best practice life expectancy is increasing”, American Journal of Public Health, 113(9), pp. 967–969.
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Zazueta-Borboa, J., Martikainen, P., Aburto, J., Costa, G., Peltonen, R., Zengarini, N., Sizer, A., Kunst, A. and Janssen, F. (2023) “Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countries”, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(7).
Friday, 03 February 2023
Aburto, J., di Lego, V., Riffe, T., Kashyap, R., van Raalte, A. and Torrisi, O. (2023) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, Science Advances, 9(5).
Saturday, 31 December 2022
Nigri, A., Aburto, J., Basellini, U. and Bonetti, M. (2022) “Evaluation of age-specific causes of death in the context of the Italian longevity transition”, Scientific reports, 12(1).
Monday, 17 October 2022
Schöley, J., Aburto, J., Kashnitsky, I., Kniffka, M., Zhang, L., Jaadla, H., Dowd, J. and Kashyap, R. (2022) “Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, Nature Human Behaviour, 6, pp. 1649–1659.
Thursday, 29 September 2022
Antonio-Villa, N., Bello-Chavolla, O., Fermín-Martínez, C., Aburto, J., Fernández-Chirino, L., Ramírez-García, D., Pisanty-Alatorre, J., González-Díaz, A., Vargas-Vázquez, A., Barquera, S., Gutiérrez-Robledo, L. and Seiglie, J. (2022) “Socio-demographic inequalities and excess non-COVID-19 mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a data-driven analysis of 1 069 174 death certificates in Mexico”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(6), pp. 1711–1721.
Tuesday, 06 September 2022
Aburto, J., Basellini, U., Baudisch, A. and Villavicencio, F. (2022) “Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table”, Theoretical Population Biology, 148, pp. 1–10.
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Aburto, J., Tilstra, A., Floridi, G. and Dowd, J. (2022) “Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(35).
Friday, 19 August 2022
Mena, G. and Aburto, J. (2022) “Unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across urban areas in Chile: a cross-sectional demographic study”, BMJ Open, 12(8).
Sunday, 31 July 2022
Wallace, M., Thomas, M., Aburto, J., Jørring Pallesen, A., Mortensen, L., Syse, A. and Drefahl, S. (2022) “Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019”, SSM - Population Health, 19.
Saturday, 16 July 2022
Nigri, A., Levantesi, S. and Aburto, J. (2022) “Leveraging deep neural networks to estimate age-specific mortality from life expectancy at birth”, Demographic Research, 47, pp. 199–232.
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Schöley, J., Aburto, J., Kashnitsky, I., Kniffka, M., Zhang, L., Jaadla, H., Dowd, J. and Kashyap, R. (2022) “Bounce backs amid continued losses: Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, medRxiv.
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Sudharsanan, N., Aburto, J., Riffe, T. and van Raalte, A. (2022) “Large variation in the epidemiological transition across countries: is it still valuable as a mortality theory?”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(4), pp. 1057–1061.
Friday, 20 May 2022
Aburto, J., di Lego, V., Riffe, T., Kashyap, R., van Raalte, A. and Torrisi, O. (2022) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, Center for Open Science.
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Shi, J., Aburto, J., Martikainen, P., Tarkiainen, L. and van Raalte, A. (2022) “A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification”, Population Studies, 77(1), pp. 15–33.
Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Vigezzi, S., Aburto, J., Permanyer, I. and Zarulli, V. (2022) “Divergent trends in lifespan variation during mortality crises”, Demographic Research, 46, pp. 291–336.
Friday, 28 January 2022
Aburto, J. (2022) “Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(5), pp. 1695–1697.
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Aburto, J., Schöley, J., Kashnitsky, I., Zhang, L., Rahal, C., Missov, T., Mills, M., Dowd, J. and Kashyap, R. (2021) “Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries.”, International journal of epidemiology [Preprint].
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Aburto, J. (2021) “The need for all-cause mortality data to aid our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America”, American Journal of Public Health, 111(10), pp. 1721–1722.
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José Manuel joined Oxford to hold the Newton International and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships. Since 2022, he is also the Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography at LSHTM. He received his MA in Demography at El Colegio de México, and PhD in Demography at the University of Southern Denmark and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in 2020.

The overarching aim of José's research is to produce novel insights on population health inequalities and better understand the link between health inequalities and social determinants of health through core demographic concepts.

Theoretically and methodologically, José's work follows two main strands. First, he develops and advances formal demographic techniques to measure inequalities in the length of life, and uses this perspective to generate new ways of analysing population health. Second, through these and other methodological tools, he examines the structural and social determinants of population health inequalities. His work so far has examined how structural shocks like violence, and more recently the COVID-19 pandemic, affect population health inequalities around the globe.

 

Publications

Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Zazueta-Borboa, J.-D., Aburto, J., Permanyer, I., Zarulli, V. and Janssen, F. (2023) “Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe”, Population Studies [Preprint].
Thursday, 01 June 2023
Aburto, J. and Vigezzi, S. (2023) “The gap between US and best practice life expectancy is increasing”, American Journal of Public Health, 113(9), pp. 967–969.
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Zazueta-Borboa, J., Martikainen, P., Aburto, J., Costa, G., Peltonen, R., Zengarini, N., Sizer, A., Kunst, A. and Janssen, F. (2023) “Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countries”, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(7).
Friday, 03 February 2023
Aburto, J., di Lego, V., Riffe, T., Kashyap, R., van Raalte, A. and Torrisi, O. (2023) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, Science Advances, 9(5).
Saturday, 31 December 2022
Nigri, A., Aburto, J., Basellini, U. and Bonetti, M. (2022) “Evaluation of age-specific causes of death in the context of the Italian longevity transition”, Scientific reports, 12(1).
Monday, 17 October 2022
Schöley, J., Aburto, J., Kashnitsky, I., Kniffka, M., Zhang, L., Jaadla, H., Dowd, J. and Kashyap, R. (2022) “Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, Nature Human Behaviour, 6, pp. 1649–1659.
Thursday, 29 September 2022
Antonio-Villa, N., Bello-Chavolla, O., Fermín-Martínez, C., Aburto, J., Fernández-Chirino, L., Ramírez-García, D., Pisanty-Alatorre, J., González-Díaz, A., Vargas-Vázquez, A., Barquera, S., Gutiérrez-Robledo, L. and Seiglie, J. (2022) “Socio-demographic inequalities and excess non-COVID-19 mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a data-driven analysis of 1 069 174 death certificates in Mexico”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(6), pp. 1711–1721.
Tuesday, 06 September 2022
Aburto, J., Basellini, U., Baudisch, A. and Villavicencio, F. (2022) “Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table”, Theoretical Population Biology, 148, pp. 1–10.
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Aburto, J., Tilstra, A., Floridi, G. and Dowd, J. (2022) “Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(35).
Friday, 19 August 2022
Mena, G. and Aburto, J. (2022) “Unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across urban areas in Chile: a cross-sectional demographic study”, BMJ Open, 12(8).
Sunday, 31 July 2022
Wallace, M., Thomas, M., Aburto, J., Jørring Pallesen, A., Mortensen, L., Syse, A. and Drefahl, S. (2022) “Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019”, SSM - Population Health, 19.
Saturday, 16 July 2022
Nigri, A., Levantesi, S. and Aburto, J. (2022) “Leveraging deep neural networks to estimate age-specific mortality from life expectancy at birth”, Demographic Research, 47, pp. 199–232.
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Schöley, J., Aburto, J., Kashnitsky, I., Kniffka, M., Zhang, L., Jaadla, H., Dowd, J. and Kashyap, R. (2022) “Bounce backs amid continued losses: Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, medRxiv.
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Sudharsanan, N., Aburto, J., Riffe, T. and van Raalte, A. (2022) “Large variation in the epidemiological transition across countries: is it still valuable as a mortality theory?”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(4), pp. 1057–1061.
Friday, 20 May 2022
Aburto, J., di Lego, V., Riffe, T., Kashyap, R., van Raalte, A. and Torrisi, O. (2022) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, Center for Open Science.
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Shi, J., Aburto, J., Martikainen, P., Tarkiainen, L. and van Raalte, A. (2022) “A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification”, Population Studies, 77(1), pp. 15–33.
Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Vigezzi, S., Aburto, J., Permanyer, I. and Zarulli, V. (2022) “Divergent trends in lifespan variation during mortality crises”, Demographic Research, 46, pp. 291–336.
Friday, 28 January 2022
Aburto, J. (2022) “Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(5), pp. 1695–1697.
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Aburto, J., Schöley, J., Kashnitsky, I., Zhang, L., Rahal, C., Missov, T., Mills, M., Dowd, J. and Kashyap, R. (2021) “Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries.”, International journal of epidemiology [Preprint].
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Aburto, J. (2021) “The need for all-cause mortality data to aid our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America”, American Journal of Public Health, 111(10), pp. 1721–1722.

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