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Enrique Acosta

ORCID 0000-0001-6250-4018 'Ramón y Cajal' Research Fellow

Educational qualifications: Ph.D in Demography (Université de Montréal)
Research Theme/s: Mortality Crises, Health, Mortality and Causes of Death

Enrique Acosta is a demographer and Ramón y Cajal Fellow Research Scientist at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED) in Barcelona, Spain. His research focuses on mortality analysis, with a particular emphasis on the demographic impacts of crises, including violence, armed conflict, epidemics, pandemics, and substance abuse. He has developed innovative methodologies for studying Age, Period, and Cohort (APC) effects on mortality and is an expert in measuring excess mortality. Enrique has been a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME-TAG) since March 2023