Academic Profile

Dr. Andrea Tilstra is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, in the Demographic Science Unit and at Nuffield College. In her MSCA fellowship, HealthShocks, she studies the indirect consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for population health.

Andrea is a quantitative medical sociologist and social demographer, and seeks to better understand the underlying social determinants of population health. In her work, she explores how societal-level shocks impact health and exacerbate existing midlife health inequalities, and she employs quantitative approaches to understand social inequalities.

Previously, she was a senior postdoctoral researcher (2021-2023) with Prof. Jennifer Dowd on her ERC grant, MORTAL. Andrea holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder (2021). Her work has been published in leading social and general science journals including Demography, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and many more.