Dr. Michel Guillot

Biography

Michel Guillot is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, obtained in 2000, and has a Master’s in Demography from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, completed in 1996. Additionally, he earned a Bachelor’s in History from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1992. His research primarily focuses on two main areas: formal demography and understanding health disparities among populations. In the field of formal demography, he has developed new methodologies to understand mortality levels and trends, with a particular focus on under-5 mortality rates. His work in health disparities examines the burden of disease on disadvantaged populations globally, including vulnerable ethnic, religious, and immigrant groups in countries such as India, the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, and France. Currently, he is involved in projects studying the interactions of nutrition, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in Ethiopia, India, Guinea-Bissau, and Gambia, and co-leads a project on the impact of COVID-19 on cohort mortality. In 2024, he will serve as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for the Core Stillbirth Estimation Group (CSEG) under the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).

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