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Sergey Timonin is a Research Fellow at the ANU School of Demography and the Centre of Epidemiology for Policy and Practice. Prior to joining ANU, he served at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, and was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany. Timonin holds an MSc and PhD in Human Geography from Moscow State University. His research interests include population health metrics, mortality trends, and the spatial socioeconomic inequalities that affect health access and healthcare delivery. Additionally, he analyzes cause-of-death data and the associations between ambient temperature and mortality rates. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he contributed to estimating the pandemic's impact on excess mortality and life expectancy losses across various settings. At ANU, his work focuses on assessing longevity trends in Australia and internationally, and he examines risk and protective factors affecting the death and suicide rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people using nationally linked data.
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