Ph.D. Student

Anastasia Lam

Laboratory of Population Health

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I am a a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. I am also an affiliated student with the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS). My background is in public health and epidemiology, and I have previously worked on diabetes comorbidities in low- and middle-income countries, and with various statistical and epidemiological methods related to case-control studies and extensions to case-control designs and analyses (textbook forthcoming).

My PhD focuses on inequalities in multimorbidity worldwide and consists of four parts:

  1. Multimorbid life expectancy across race, socioeconomic status, and gender in South Africa (Manuscript submitted, see working paper)
  2. Inequalities in disability-free and disabling multimorbid life expectancy in Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States (Manuscript submitted)
  3. Changes in multimorbidity incidence and prevalence across birth cohorts in South Korea (In-progress)
  4. Longitudinal analysis of how transitions into multimorbidity, and multimorbidity prevalence, have changed over time across various middle-income countries (Planned for 2023/2024)

Projects

Inequalities in Multimorbidity (Dissertation) Projects details

MPIDR Publications

Selected All

Lam, A. A.; Keenan, K.; Cezard, G.; Kulu, H.; Myrskylä, M.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-002. (2023)    
Lam, A. A.; Keenan, K.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-024. (2022)    

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