Dr. Andrew Stokes

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Andrew C. Stokes is an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, specializing in population health, aging, and mortality. His research focuses on the determinants of rising mortality inequities in the U.S., particularly in relation to peer nations. His interests include upstream factors such as tobacco regulatory policy and food environments, and downstream factors like chronic pain and disability. His scholarly work aims to integrate traditional demography and epidemiology approaches with innovative methods in causal inference, spatial-temporal modeling, and machine learning, all directed at generating impactful evidence to inform health policy and enhance public health outcomes. Besides his primary role, Dr. Stokes has a secondary appointment in the Department of Sociology and is an affiliate of several research centers at Boston University. He leads the Master of Science programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Data Science while teaching applied research methods for population health. His academic journey includes a BA from Bates College, an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from the same institution in Demography and Sociology. He has held significant research fellowships at Harvard and has engaged in numerous funded research initiatives addressing public health challenges.

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