Dr José Manuel Aburto
Associate Professor in Demography - Brass Blacker
United Kingdom
José Manuel joined LSHTM in 2022 as Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography. He leads the Mortality and Inequalities Research group supported by a Wellcome career development award. Before joining LSHTM he held the Newton International and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships at University of Oxford and was Assistant Professor at University of Southern Denmark. José Manuel received his MA in Demography at El Colegio de México, training at the European Doctoral School of Demography at Sapienza University of Rome, and PhD in Demography at the University of Southern Denmark and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in 2020.
Affiliations
Teaching
José Manuel convenes the Mathematical Demography module at the European Doctoral School of Demography where he teaches Mathematics for Demographers and Decomposition Techniques since 2018. At LSHTM, he contributes teaching to the Population Studies, Demographic Methods and Population Dynamics and Projections papers.
Research
José Manuel's research specializes in formal demography and the measurement of inequalities in longevity, contributing influential work that has been recognized with awards such as the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Silver Medal (2022). Theoretically and methodologically, his work follows two main strands. First, his work 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, including those from statistics, data science, and computer science, his work examines the structural and social determinants of population health inequalities. For example, 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.
Selected Publications
